Acting
Nov 21, 1929
Sanremo, Liguria, Italy
Isa Barzizza
Acting
Biography
Luisita Barzizza, better known as Isa Barzizza (Sanremo, Italy 22 November 1929 – Palau, Italy 28 May 2023), was an Italian actress. She enjoyed a very long acting career, spanning from the second half of the 1940s to the first half of the 2010s. The daughter of orchestra conductor Pippo Barzizza and Tatina Salesi, elder sister of director Renzo Barzizza and cousin of the appearance Anna Maria Salesi, she established herself throughout her career as a performer in revue theatre, cinema and television, becoming one of the earliest television personalities in Italy alongside Totò.
Feature Films (47)
In Napoli, Nicolino Capece, a truthful pharmacist clerk becomes erroneously recognized as a dangerous Spanish criminal and decides to escape to Spain. In Siviglia, he is blackmailed by the bandit Cast who wants him to marry the rich Patricia Cotten and then kill her. So Nicolino play the bull fighter and heads to the arena....
Fifa e arena
In the first Italian film to be shot in color, Totò portrays a musician named Antonio Scannagatti who strongly hopes to sell his composition, "Epopea italiana", to Tiscordi, who is one of the most important Italian impresarios.
Totó in color
In 19th-century France, middle-aged orphans Gasparre and Battista, watchmen at an orphanage, find out from a soothsayer that one of them is the offspring of the Hangman of Paris and the other is the son of a count. But it is only a dream of theirs.
Two Little Orphans
Young swain Toto Esposito tries to abduct his beloved to marry her, but he makes a mistake: he kidnaps an ugly woman named Carmela, who loves him--and chases him when he escapes.
Le sei mogli di Barbablù
A professor was appointed member of the jury of a beauty contest and falls for a beautiful contestant. In order to get the girl he must win the "Tour of Italy", so professor sells his soul to the devil to get the winning and the girl.
Toto Tours Italy
A musical comedy divided into five segments: Mariantonia, Cuttica, Il Fine Dicitore, Fregoli and Il Censore.
Gran varietà
The film is set in Naples. Two doubles, an American and a Neapolitan, alternate visiting Zaza, the maid of a magazine company, deceived by their resemblance.
Dove sta Zaza?
Naples/Sorrento, mid 20s. A couple of small thieves conceive a scam whereby one of them dresses up as a eunuch Turk to care for the women of the family of a wealthy man. They end up messing everything up, with lots of gags and funny events in the meantime.
Neapolitan Turk
The film tells the story of a group of survivors of a planetary catastrophe. They are all passengers on a train that al at the time of the disaster they were traveling from Rome to Milan. Isolated on the Apennines, after waiting in vain for help, our men set off in search of food and shelter. Until the quintet shows up I realize that the known world no longer exists and that the future promises to be a real one real nightmare. A nightmare of which ours will become full protagonists, transforming, chapter after chapter, from helpless prey to bloodthirsty hunters.
Giorno 122
In the 18th century, Figaro the Sevillian barber is likely to be arrested because he operates his shop on Sundays, which is forbidden.
