Maria Monti

Maria Monti
Monti in 1960
Born	26 June 1935 (1935-06-26) (age 89)[1] Milan, Italy[1]
Occupation(s)	Actress, singer

Maria Monti (born 26 June 1935) is an Italian film actress and singer.

Life and career

Born in Milan, Monti started her career as a singer in the mid-1950s, performing in the nightclubs of her hometown, soon achieving local success.[1] As a singer, she took part in the Sanremo Music Festival 1961 with "Benzina e cerini", and her repertoire mostly consisted on satirical folk songs.[1] At the same time she started a parallel activity as a stage actress, and starting from 1959 being also active on television and in films, where she collaborated with Sergio Leone, Bernardo Bertolucci, Alberto Lattuada and Mauro Bolognini.[1] On stage, she is best known for her collaboration with Paolo Poli, for the Garinei-Terzoli-Vaime musical comedy Pardon Mounsier Molière she starred in with Gino Bramieri, and for Giovanni Testori's L'Ambleto.[1]

Filmography

• Canzoni a tempo di twist (1962)
• La bella di Lodi (1963)
• The Man Who Burnt His Corpse (1964)
• La prova generale (1968)
• Duck, You Sucker! (1971)
• Chronicle of a Homicide (1972)
• The Night of the Devils (1972)
• What Have You Done to Solange? (1972)
• Vermisat (1975)
• Al piacere di rivederla (1976)
• The Red Carnation (1976)
• 1900 (1976)
• Oh, Serafina! (1976)
• Black Journal (1977)
• Wifemistress (1977)
• Nest of Vipers (1977)
• Little Lips (1978)
• Yerma (TV, 1978)
• The Girl from Millelire Street (1980)
• Mary Ward [de] (1985)
• The Strangeness of Life (1987)
• Milan noir (1987)
• Gangsters (1992)
• La medaglia (1997)
• Kaputt Mundi (1998)
• Against the Wind (2000)
• Vento di ponente (TV, 2002)
• Fog and Crimes (TV, 2005)
• Zodiaco (TV,2008)
• L'ultimo re (2009)

References

1. Gianfranco Baldazzi (1990). "Monti, Maria". Dizionario della canzone italiana, cured by Gino Castaldo. Curcio Editore. pp. 1131-2.

External links

• Maria Monti official home page
• Partial discography on Discogs
• Maria Monti at IMDb