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Marisa Allasio, stage name Maria Luisa Allasio

Turin, 14 July 1936

Daughter of Federico Allasio, giacotore of Genoa and Turin, runs eight films but the character that the audience remembers is that of Jeanne in poor but beautiful and nice but poor. Leave the cinema in 1958, she married count Pier Francesco Calvi di Bergolo, son of Princess Yolanda Margherita of Savoy, daughter of Victor Emmanuel II and Elena of Montenegro, with whom he goes to live in the castle of Pomaro Monferrato, Piedmont. She was elected Councillor in the lists of the Liberal Party, from his marriage to the Earl has two sons, Carlo Giorgio Dmitri Drago Maria Laetitia, and Anda Federica Angelica Maria. Towards the late 1970s he moved to Sydney to go to live in the hamlet of Valley Mothers in the Park of Villa Ada, former residence of the Savoy. It will remain there until 2000, until the city of Rome after a long complex lawsuit, takes possession of the area that the Allasio and her husband had received in loan from the Savoy family, and that he had kept after parting with the count .

 Filmography

1953/ Forgive me!, Mario Costa 

1953/ Sunday heroes, by Mario Camerini 

1954/ Tragic Ballad, directed by Luigi Capuano 

1954/ Mother's heart, directed by Luigi Capuano 

1955/ Eighteen-year-olds, directed by Mario Mattoli

1955/ Nowadays Girls, directed by Luigi Zampa 

1956/ War and peace, directed by King Vidor 

1956/ Maruzzella, directed by Luigi Capuano 

1957/ Poor but beautiful, Dino Risi 

1957/ Beautiful but poor, Dino Risi 

1957/ Camping, Franco Zeffirelli 

1957/ The slaves of Carthage, directed by Guido Brignone 

1957/ Marisa the Owl, Mauro Bolognini 

1957/ Susanna all cream, Steno 

1958/ Goodbye Rome, directed by Roy Rowland 

1958/ Carmela is a doll, directed by Gianni Puccini 

1958/ Naked as God created them, directed by Hans Schott-Schöbinger

She was voiced by

Maria Pia Di Meo in Tragic Ballad, Girls nowadays, Poor but beautiful, Beautiful but poor, Marisa the Owl, Venice, The Moon and You

Luisella Visconti in Maruzzella, slaves of Carthage, Carmela is a doll, Camping

Miranda Bonasea in Eighteen-year-olds

Fiorella Betti in Goodbye Rome