Farewell to Marisa Anna Solinas, actress and singer of Sardinian origins
Today the funeral of the artist who debuted on the big screen with Mario Monicelli
L’Unione Sarda.it
ByFrancesco Abate
February 14, 2019
This afternoon will be held in Rome at the funeral of actress and singer Marisa Anna Solinas (who passed away on Tuesday night), born in 1941, although she was born in Genoa, as her friends remember, "she felt strongly Sardinian". The father, in fact, was born in Sardinia.
And to our Island was also linked part of the narrative that saw her starring in the cinema.
In 1968 he is in the cast of one of the best Spaghetti-westerns, "Garter Colt" that was shot mostly in San Giovanni di Sinis starring Nicoletta Rangoni Machiavelli.
Her debut in the world of entertainment was with Mario Monicelli who entrusts her with the led role in the episode "Renzo and Luciana", within the film "Boccaccio '70". Thirty feature-length films followed from there.
As a singer her debut was with "Devi Impar", a piece of which was also made into widespread film in the circuit of cinebox, the forerunner of video clips. In 1973 she poses nude for the camera of Gina Lollobrigida who immortalizes her as a model for her book "Italia mia".
Solinas also graced for the cover of Playman. One of her last appearances was in the successful film by Alex Infascelli "Almost Blue", in 2000, based on the homonymous novel of Carlo Lucarelli.
SOLINAS, Marisa(Marisa Anna Solinas)
Born: 5/30/1941, Genoa, Liguria, Italy
Died: 2/12/2019, Rome, Lazio, Italy
Marisa Solinas' westerns - actress:
A Colt in the Hand of the Devil - 1967 (Maya)
Garter Colt – 1968 (Rosy) – 1967
Blood Calls to Blood – 1968 (saloon girl)
Killer, Adios – 1968 (Sheila Simpson)
Blindman – 1971 (Margherita)