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Marisa Anna Solinas (30 May 1939 – 12 February 2019), best known as Marisa Solinas, was an Italian actress and singer.
Life
Born in Genoa to a Sardinian father and a Tuscan mother from Garfagnana. In her teen years, she dreamed about becoming an opera singer and enrolled in Teatro Carlo Felice. Later she decided to concentrate on the pop music genre, in 1960, accompanied by mother, she transferred to Milan, where she made her film debut in 1961. The first big success to her career happened a year later, when she was spotted by Mario Monicelli and cast to be the main actress in "Renzo e Luciana", one of the four episodes of Boccaccio '70; the same year she appeared in Bernardo Bertolucci's film debut, La commare secca and acted on stage in Fogli d'album at the Festival dei Due Mondi. Later she starred in a large number of genre films, especially Spaghetti Westerns, and appeared in several successful TV-series.
Solinas was nicknamed the Phoenix of Italian cinema because she reimagined herself several times, always with great success transforming into some different kind of performer.
As a photomodel, Solinas made 750 covers, and posed for Gina Lollobrigida's photobooks and projects.
She was also a singer, and published two albums and several singles, one of these released by La voce del padrone.
On set of Boccaccio '70, she met Luigi Tenco. For many years, they remained close friends. After the death of Tenco, she claimed that his demise was not least because of a 6 mln debt he owed to pay a bribe to Sanremo Music Festival management team, and his frustration about clandestine gambling on the results. The Sanremo team sued Solinas in the Spring of 1967. The actress also received threats to hurt her son Davide in attempt to pressure her to retain the statement.
She died on 12 February 2019, at the age of 79.
Selected filmography
1961 — Scano Boa, directed by Renato Dall'Ara
1962 — Boccaccio '70, directed by Mario Monicelli
1962 — Il peccato, directed by Jorge Grau
1962 — La commare secca, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
1964 — Senza sole né luna, directed by Luciano Ricci
1965 — Viale della canzone, directed by Tullio Piacentini
1966 — Honeymoon, Italian Style, directed by Mario Amendola
1967 — Colt in the Hand of the Devil, directed by Sergio Bergonzelli
1967 — The Head of the Family, directed by Nanni Loy
1971 — Blindman, directed by Ferdinando Baldi
1973 — My Pleasure Is Your Pleasure, directed by Claudio Racca
1974 — L'arbitro, directed by Luigi Filippo D'Amico
1984 — Everybody in Jail, directed by Alberto Sordi
1984 — I due carabinieri, directed by Carlo Verdone
2000 — Almost Blue, directed by Alex Infascelli
References
External links
Marisa Solinas at IMDb
Marisa Solinas at Discogs