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Elsa Martinelli relaxes with a cigarette

Elsa Martinelli, seated, wearing a fur stole, cigarette in hand

Around 1955. The man behind the lens is Georg Michalke. He photographed countless European stars and starlets in Rome during the 1950s and ’60s. Many of his pictures of Sophia Loren, Brigitte Bardot, Claudia Cardinale and other glamour queens were used for postcards for the German market.

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