Nilla Pizzi
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Nilla Pizzi.
Born: April 16, 1919
Place of Birth: Sant'Agata Bolognese, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Known For
Sanremo Music Festival
The Sanremo Music Festival is the most popular Italian song contest and awards, held annually in the town of Sanremo, Imperia, Italy, and consisting of a competition amongst previously unreleased songs. The Festival was the inspiration for the Eurovision Song Contest.
Cantando sotto le stelle
A man finds out that he won the lottery and travels to Rome to retrieve the other half of his winning ticket.
Una ragazza di Praga
A woman from Czechoslovakia escapes her homeland after the occupation by the armies of Warsaw pact to Italy to tell the tale...
The Mandrake
A young man hatches a plan to sleep with another man's infertile wife. Based on the play by Machiavelli.
I'll See You on the Balcony
Ignazio Panizza goes from one failure to the other until he meets a singer, Caterina, provided with an exceptional voice.
10 love songs to save
The plot concerns a songwriter, played by Jacques Sernas who leaves his sweetheart and publisher when he learns that he is going blind.
Melodrammore
Il microfono è vostro
Bored with her bourgeois life, the young Maria Variani, daughter of a professor, meets Bruno, who is part of an amateur jazz group, and allows herself to be persuaded to join the band that plays during the radio program "The microphone is yours".
Pentimento
A cabaret singer, now a widow, is dethroned and expelled downstairs by a fiery rival.
Giovinezza
Filmography
as Self
as Regina
as Self
as Sostrata
as Lucia Spinelli
as Caterina Lari
as Singer
as Cantante
as herself
as Self - Host