Giorgia Moll

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Digging up a French-Italian-German spy film entitled The Blonde from Peking (1967) to flesh out a post for another performer allowed for the appearance of Giorgia Moll (born Giorgia Molinella); she played a nurse who gets taken along for a ride by Soviet villains when the title's "Blonde From Peking" gets kidnapped.



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When the lovely Italian actress (born 1938, and still kickin') came onscreen, the monitor lit up. Her IMDb page included as description "harmonious face" (as well as "dream measurements"), words that were beautifully put. These frame grabs did not focus on capturing the times when she smiled, but the effervescence was keenly noticeable when she did.



Frankly, we may now have a better understanding as to what moved Ray Charles to compose "Giorgia on My Mind."



Before we seque to ways in which we would all most prefer seeing Giorgia, let's perform an inadequate study of her screen experience. I see from her filmography that she first got going in the industry of her nation at the tender age of seventeen. After trudging through half-a-dozen non-descript titles (at least they did not ring bells for me) over the next three years, she landed a part that probably got her the most notice, in a production that was international (U.S., to be specific, or top of the global film biz heap), 1958's The Quiet American, written and directed by the noteworthy Joseph L. Mankiewicz.


On location in Cholon, South Vietnam
(March 1957).

Taking place in 1952 Vietnam, which was occupied by France, the film's conflict is between a simple (or is he simple?) American (Audie Murphy) vs. a cynical British journalist (Michael Redgrave, pictured twice below) exploring themes of human nature (the book by Graham Greene that the film took after was anti-American, but the producers evidently softened up that aspect). Giorgia was cast in the role of a Vietnamese woman whom Audie falls in love with and evidently hopes to transform to a typical American housewife. (I see from a few of our lady's other films that she was similarly cast in "ethnic" parts, which is interesting, since her features aren't all that unusual.)


Check out a few more of the lady in her Vietnamese get-up, compliments of Member "Steve44," from 2012's Post #3.

I didn't click on many of Ms. Moll's titles, but I'm surprised she was awarded the starring role in a healthy number of what I did click on. (In other words, she used to be a somebody in the industry.)

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With Steve Reeves in the first photo.

One that I'm delighted to see she was the heroine of was The White Warrior (1959) ("Agi Murad il diavolo bianco," or Hadji Murad The White Devil) which I caught years ago because the subject was so unusual; the heroes were Muslim Caucasians (peoples of the Caucasus), versus Russian oppressors. (The IMDb says "Chechens," but the film did not identify the people by name.) Another attraction was the film's star, Steve "Hercules" Reeves. (For whom Giorgia would again serve as love interest for, when she played an Arab princess in 1961's delightful The Thief of Baghdad that I watched as a kid; second photo above.)



John Drew Barrymore, son of "The Great Profile," was hero of The Cossacks

In The Cossacks (1960), the oppressors were again Russians, and the oppressed were... Chechens? That's what the IMDb says, but Cossacks are a Christian and Slavic people. (This other page says "Circassian Muslims.") If the heroes were Chechens or Circassians, that would make this another unusual film that came from the West, because everyone knows Muslims are supposed to be villains, and never heroes. Giorgia's character's name is "Tatiana," which would place her on the side of the Russians, and I'll bet she falls for a man from the team on the opposing side, pretty much as was a factor in The White Warrior.


These two behind-the-scenes images are from 1963's Island of Love, where
Giorgia played a Greek. In the first, she's being fitted on set in Oct. 1962; in the
second, with Robert Preston, who plays a con man. He and partner Tony Randall
are trying to outrun gangster Walter Matthau by escaping to a Greek isle.

(In The White Warrior, Giorgia played the love interest of Hadji Murad's clan rival, and yet Giorgia only had eyes for the hero; it was the wife of the general assigned by the Czar to eliminate the insurrectionists, a Russian princess, who loved the hero, Hadji Murad. I'm laying all of this on you, because I know you're taking notes.)



See 2014's Post #11 by Member "Bluemarker" for more Lipstick views.
There is this nice one of the "killer" kissing our lady's foot.

1960's Lipstick ("Il Rossetto") is a psychological thriller that seems to be among Giorgia's better films. She's engaged to a suave fellow who is seen by a fourteen-year-old to be near a murder scene; she doesn't go to the cops, because of her schoolgirl crush. He tries to do what he can to dissuade her, and the film focuses on an evidently realistic relationship.




1960 and 1961 were busy years for Giorgia, appearing in ten feature films and one TV episode. One of her '61 flicks was Laura Nuda, a film that seems to have been assigned such a name for exploitation purposes, but the film "is a sensitive, rather delicate film that questions the place of women in society in the sixties," as a French reviewer put it. Laura, played by our lady (who earned high marks from the reviewer, for her performance) is disenchanted with men, who are after only one thing, as well as the idea of marriage.






Godard's Contempt (1963) serves as one of Giorgia's most famous films, where the star of the movie, Brigitte Bardot, suddenly falls out of love with her screenwriter husband, as she senses he has allowed for her to spend quiet time with the film's authoritarian producer (Jack Palance) to earn brownie points.



Giorgia plays Palance's secretary (the trailer describes her as "the starlet"), and she provides a feast for his eyes in this scene as he is delighted by her nude swim, while watching in a screening room.

Mod Note: While this scene is credited to Giorgia Moll on a few online sites, it is actually Linda Veras as "Siren" or "Mermaid". In the film, Jack Palance's character Jeremy Prokosch views the clip & asks the assistant & interpreter Francesca (Giorgia Moll) "Francesca, What is that?" to which she replies "It's a Mermaid". So she is in the scene, just not the nude swimmer in the film within a film.








In the 1960s, Giorgia nurtured a separate career as a singer. Her film career wound down by 1970, when she was still at a youthful 32. She returned in 1984 for what seems a quick part in a feature film, as well as a TV film in 1985. Photography then became her profession.



In 1966's Requiem for a Secret Agent, where Stewart Granger was the James Bond-ish character, Giorgia
had a relatively small part; the leading lady was From Russia with Love's Bond girl, Daniela Bianchi.

EDIT: After watching the film, Daniela departed fairly early, and it was Giorgia who became the hero's
lover; she even exhibited "nudity" (undressed in bed, and a little breast glimpse by arrow in second photo).





As far as nude views, you may see Fabrizio's contribution just above (his 2020 post was the last on this thread). They came from Playmen, August 1972, which Steve44 put up four more photos from in 2012's Post #4. In his Post #13, Member "Beutelwolf" was gracious to turn visitors on to Fabrizio's 2014 post in the "Playmen - Italian magazine" thread, where the magazine's pages for that issue were scanned fully (although Steve44's fourth photo is missing, reproduced below, especially since the lady looked so hot):

Originally Posted by Steve44

So we are talking about six Playmen photos, that Steve44 additionally compiled here. (Actually, this was probably our moderator's doing, and the explanation is coming up.) The reason why Beutelwolf turned us on to Fabrizio's "complete" post was because "most of these seemed to have died since on their imagehost." (Yet Steve44's old post is in good working order, and probably VEF's always-on-the-ball moderator PoloMintguy fixed it all up in 2022, as he footnoted.)

Steve44 offered the following topless view, said to be from 1968, and next to it is a great view of Giorgia, as put up by Member "Jorge Borg" in his Post #16 from 2015. The second view's source was "Il Borghese, 1975." ("The Bourgeois.") I didn't know what that was, and I suppose it was a book, the cover for which has been reproduced in the third photo. (You can buy it for nearly a hundred bucks, including shipping, from abebooks.com.)

Originally Posted by Steve44

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It's interesting that Georgia posed nude for Playmen at the age of thirty-four, two years after she hung up her film career. We may only speculate as to what her motivation was (money? Vanity?), since she wasn't promoting anything.

As wonderful as her nude views are from Playmen, the hidden gems in this thread are two posts by Beutelwolf; first, Post #7 from 2012, where he generously went through the trouble of scanning marvelous pages from the Oct. 1968 issue of Kent Magazine. This is a goldmine of a post, where the photos are fabulous; I took the liberty of cropping and reworking these three below, since there are a good several images, and they got a bit lost in the crowd.



The next great post was the follow-up, Post #8, from 2013. These came from two different magazines, Escort (which "borrowed" some of the stills from the Kent spread), and Girl Illustrated.

Originally Posted by beutelwolf

She sure looks sexy with that big hair.

There was English text accompanying the Escort article, entitled, "She's Always Such a Sweet Girl." After beginning with how the spiritual-minded Giorgia was studying theology, and was walking down a famous street in Rome where girls hope to be discovered, she outshined the rest. She was "persuaded" away from her religious studies, and "Carlo Ponti himself introduced her to the film world." Then there was this:

And that was how this star was born. Her name? Georgia Moll.
A star Georgia is too. She has appeared in more than 30 films in many countries of Europe. But the directors have always portrayed her as a gentle and romantic young girl—perhaps in deference to Georgia's religious background.
When she has had to play the part of a naughty girl it has always been in the story that she did so with reluctance. In "Laura Nuda", for example, Georgia's role showed her to be in anguish at the thought of deceiving her husband, even though she had to give herself to every man she met before the film ended. The directors were very sorry that Georgia had to be cast in that part.
And who says they are an insensitive crowd, the film people?


Later came to be aware that shots 1, 4 and 5 have been put up previously; think of these as their encore performances.

As I wrote about her contemporary (and Blonde From Peking co-actress) Pascale Roberts in this recent post, Giorgia called it quits before the permissive 1970s came around, thus diminishing the chances for her to expose herself on film. (Perhaps Giorgia's turn in Contempt was the only time she revealed her bare wares, and unfortunately the goods were mostly hidden underwater.) We may be grateful (particularly if she was a sort of Bible-thumper) that she consented to pose semi-nude in a few of her films, and nude for the magazines.



Giorgia, a tiny bit past her prime








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Webfind, auntie Giorgia in Men 1967, no photo credit and bad condition.