Wertmüller lahir dengan nama Arcangela Felice Assunta Wertmüller von Elgg Spañol von Braueich di Roma pada 1928[4] dari sebuah keluarga Swiss Katolik Roma taat dari keturunan aristokrat.
Peter Biskind. "Lina Wertmuller: The Politics of Private Life" in Film Quarterly 28, pp. 10–16 (1974–75)
Bullaro, Grace Russo. Man in Disorder - The Cinema of Lina Wertmüller in the 1970s. ISBN 978-1-905886-39-5
Déléas, Josette. Lina Wertmüller - Un rire noir chaussé de lunettes blanches - a critical biography filled with delightful anecdotes and Lina's irresistible humour. ISBN 978-1-4251-2755-8
William R. Magretta and Joan Magretta. "Lina Wertmuller and the Tradition of Italian Carnivalesque Comedy" in Genre 12, pp. 25–43. (1979)
Tiziana Masucci, "I chiari di Lina" -her new and sparkling biography- (Edizioni Sabinae,Roma 2009)ISBN 978-88-96105-22-1
Referensi
^NOTE: Wertmüller's year of birth had been given as 1926 for many years. However, a majority of references now cite 1928, including [1]Diarsipkan 2018-07-31 di Wayback Machine., [2],[3], [4], [5], and [6] A few sources ([7], [8]) continue to cite 1926.
