Italian actress Eleonora Giorgi, 71, died of pancreatic cancer on March 3. Born in Rome, she worked her way up in the early ’70s through small roles, before getting her first starring role in 1973’s Story of a Cloistered Nun. Giorgi was not much more than a young cutie till she began starring in dramas (To Forget Venice, Dario Argento's Inferno, Nino Manfredi's Portrait of a Woman, Nude, Liliana Cavani’s Beyond the Door) and comedies (Velvet Hands, Grand Hotel Excelsior, Talcum Powder). She had a colorful private life, involving marriages and/or love affairs with actors Alessandro Momo and Massimo Ciavarro, producer and publisher Angelo Rizzoli, and writer Andrea De Carlo. One of her two sons, Angelo Rizzoli, Jr., is a film and TV producer.
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