Franca Marzi
Franca Marzi | |
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| Born | 18 August 1926 Rome, Kingdom of Italy |
| Died | 6 March 1989 (aged 62) Cinisello Balsamo, Milan, Italy |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1943–1977 |
Franca Marzi (18 August 1926 – 6 March 1989) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 80 films between 1943 and 1977.
Life and career
[edit]Born in Rome as Francesca Marsi, after working in the revue, Marzi made her film debut in her early twenties, in The Lovers (1946) by Giacomo Gentilomo.[1] She was usually cast in roles of provocative women and femme fatales in films of sentimental or comic genre.[1] The only exception was the Federico Fellini's drama Nights of Cabiria (1957), in which she played the role of the prostitute Wanda, the best friend of Giulietta Masina, a role for which she was rewarded with the Silver Ribbon for Best Supporting Actress.[2]
Selected filmography
[edit]- Harlen (1943) – Une spettatrice al teatro
- The Lovers (1946) – Porzia
- Tombolo (1947) – Lidia
- The Two Orphans (1947) – Susanne de la Pleine
- Mad About Opera (1948) – Carmen
- L'isola di Montecristo (1948) – Lucy
- Letter at Dawn (1948) - Lilly – l'amante di Carlo
- Fear and Sand (1948) – Carmen
- Calamità d'oro (1948) – Rosetta 'Calamita d'oro'
- A Night of Fame (1949) – Flora
- Totò Le Mokò (1949) – Odette
- The Pirates of Capri (1949) – Carla
- Napoli eterna canzone (1949) – Stella Paris
- Maracatumba... ma non è una rumba! (1949) – Corinna Auselli, figlia del fattore
- La figlia del peccato (1949) – l'ex amante di Ernesto
- Ho sognato il paradiso (1950) – Collega di Maria
- Son of d'Artagnan (1950) – La Contessa
- Figaro Here, Figaro There (1950) – Consuelo
- Devotion (1950) – Zana, la vedova
- Beauties on Bicycles (1951) − Maria
- Arrivano i nostri (1951) − Gioia Chellis
- The Black Captain (1951)
- Milano miliardaria (1951) − Italia Furioni
- Verginità (1951) − Giulia
- Toto the Third Man (1951) − Teresa − la domestica di Paolo
- La vendetta del corsaro (1951)
- La paura fa 90 (1951) − Nanda Fougère
- Revenge of Black Eagle (1951) − Katia
- My Heart Sings (1951) − Gina
- Amor non ho! Però, però.. (1951)
- Vedi Napoli e poi muori (1951) − Wanda
- Tizio, Caio, Sempronio (1951) − Livia
- Santa Lucia Luntana (1951)
- Salvate mia figlia (1951) − Ex Amante di Andrea
- Lorenzaccio (1951) − Clarice
- La voce del sangue (1952)
- Sardinian Vendetta (1952) − Annesa Leoni
- The Black Mask (1952) − Henriette
- Tragic Return (1952) − Donna Carmela − Nicola's girlfriend
- At Sword's Edge (1952) − Rita
- They Were Three Hundred (1952) − Sina
- Final Pardon (1952)
- Non ho paura di vivere (1952)
- I, Hamlet (1952) − Valchiria
- I morti non pagano tasse (1952) − Mariella, la locandiera
- Delitto al luna park (1952) − Silvia
- I Piombi di Venezia (1953) − Fabia
- Cavallina storna (1953) − Donna Angela
- Carcerato (1953) − Valeria − matrigna di Luisa
- Riscatto (1953) − L'ostessa
- Fermi tutti... arrivo io! (1953) − Carmen
- Rivalità (1953) − Franca
- Lasciateci in pace (1953)
- Cavallina storna (1953) − Dalgisa
- Canzoni a due voci (1953) − Governante Franca
- Canto per te (1953) − Luciana
- The Island Monster (1954) − Gloria D'Auro
- Il cavaliere di Maison Rouge (1954)
- The Doctor of the Mad (1954) − La moglie di Cristaldi
- The Boatman of Amalfi (1954) − Cristina
- Orphan of the Ghetto (1954)
- Suor Maria (1955) − Assunta Ranieri
- La trovatella di Milano (1956)
- Nights of Cabiria (1957) − Wanda
- Fortunella (1958) − Amelia
- Girls for the Summer (1958) − Clara
- Ritrovarsi all'alba (1959) − Paola
- Il raccomandato di ferro (1959) − Tosca
- Gastone (1960) − Rosa
- Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today (1960) − Matilde Cocozza
- La contessa azzurra (1960) − Donna Carmela
- La garçonnière (1960) − Mother
- Ghosts of Rome (1961) − Nella
- Psycosissimo (1962) − Clotilde Scarponi
- The Man Who Burnt His Corpse (1964)
- Le tardone (1964) − Donna Carla (episode "Canto flamenco")
- Pardon, Are You For or Against? (1966) − Camilla
- Ecco noi per esempio... (1977)
References
[edit]- ^ a b Felice Cappa; Piero Gelli; Marco Mattarozzi (1998). Dizionario dello spettacolo del '900. Dalai editore, 1998. ISBN 8880892959.
- ^ Enrico Lancia (1998). I premi del cinema. Gremese Editore, 1998. ISBN 8877422211.
External links
[edit]- Franca Marzi at IMDb
- Franca Marzi at AllMovie
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