Isa Barzizza

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Isa Barzizza (actually Luisita Barzizza ; born November 22, 1929 in Sanremo ) is an important Italian actress on stage, in film and on television.

biography

The daughter of the orchestra conductor and film composer Pippo Barzizza went to the Liceo Classico Vincenzo Gioberti in Turin and began at the same time with activities on the stage in supporting roles, playing with artists such as Ruggero Ruggeri , Elsa Merlini and in 1941/1942 with Eduardo De Filippo and his siblings .

Through Erminio Macario's personal intercession with her father, she was able to break off her education and appear in one of Macario's revues. Barzizza made her debut with Le educande di San Babila in 1947, followed by Follie di Amleto. Due to her pleasant, charming appearance and her cheeky, funny tone, she quickly became a popular performer and soubrette in light and musical stage pieces.

After her first stage experience alongside Macario, Totò became Barzizza's second teacher, who taught her further tricks and secrets of acting: direct contact with the audience to support comic scenes, the use of facial expressions as well as the inclusion of the stage. She also appeared with Totò in two pieces: in C'era una volta il mondo in 1948 and the following year in Bada che ti mangio , in which the famous sleeping car sketch was shown for the first time, which later became part of the film Totò a colori ( 1952) was integrated. In the course of time it was extended on the stage from 7 minutes at the beginning to three quarters of an hour.

Barzizza's film debut in I due orfanelli in 1947 had also taken place alongside Totò . It was the first of eleven films together. In total, her filmography includes around thirty films; She shot several of them in supporting roles in comedies by her male stage partners. In Gran varietà from 1954 she played a leading role and sang a blues .

In the 1951/1952 season she worked with the experienced playwrights Garinei and Giovannini , who wrote the revue piece Gran Baldoria for her and her humor , which was also a great success with the audience. In the same season she appeared in William Shakespeare's What You Want on the stage, directed by Renato Castellani .

On January 3, 1954, the beginning of Italian television broadcasting, she appeared for the RAI in Carlo Goldoni's Osteria della posta . Many other comedies for the program followed. In the 1955/56 season she was successful again with a stage play: the musical comedy Valentina , the story of two lovers making a leap in time, was just as popular with the audience as the Wonder Bar, realized for television by director Daniele D'Anza in 1955.

In 1960 Barzizza suddenly broke off her stage career; The occasion was the accidental death of her husband, the television director Carlo Alberto Chiesa . For a few years she devoted herself exclusively to raising their daughter. She found her new partner in the architect Enzo Villoresi. She founded a dubbing company and dedicated herself to this work actively and as the artistic director of the company.

Only at the beginning of the 1990s did Barzizza return to the theater stage; again in comedies such as La pulce nell'orecchio , directed by Gigi Proietti , or arsenic and lace , staged by Mario Monicelli . In 1995 she participated in the Spoleto Festival with The Last Yankee by Arthur Miller in part and played four years later next Lauretta Masiero in a stage version of Aldo Palazzeschis Sorelle Materassi .

She was now available again for television work; for Raitre she appeared in 1989 in the documentary fiction Mai dire mai alongside Fabio Fazio and Giampiero Mughini ; with Raiuno in the television series Non lasciamoci più in 1999 and 2001.

After a few films at the end of the 1990s and the beginning of the 21st century, Barzizza was shown in the cinema again after a long time: In Viva l'Italia she interpreted the role of Marisa, an old hospital patient.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1947: Dove sta Zaza?
  • 1950: Sweet Rice (L'inafferabile 12)
  • 1952: We dance on the rainbow (Senza veli)
  • 1953: It's never too late (Non è mai troppo tardi)
  • 1953: The daughter of the company (La figlia del reggimento)
  • 1974: We were so in love (C'eravamo tanto amati)
  • 2012: Viva l'Italia

bibliography

  • AA.VV. Almanacco Bompiani 1975 Il teatro di rivista italiano.

Web links

Commons : Isa Barzizza  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. Isa Barzizza on MyMovies (Italian).
  2. ^ Enrico Lancia, article Isa Barzizza , in: Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. Le attrici. Rome 2003, p. 24