Elsa Martinelli, arms akimbo, during production of one of her earliest films, 1956’s Rice Girl (La risaia). The Italian model-turned-actress, signed to a Hollywood contract by Kirk Douglas (he cast her as a Sioux princess in The Indian Fighter), also appeared in The 10th Victim, The Trial, Woman Times Seven, Hatari! and If This is Tuesday, It Must Be Belgium. Born in 1935, she died Saturday, July 8, in Rome.