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Place of Birth: San Giovanni Rotondo, Apulia, Italy
About Marisa Maresca
- Marisa Maresca (17 July 1923 - 18 August 1988) was an Italian showgirl, soubrette, and theatre dancer.
- Her mother was also a soubrette, her father was an impresario, and her uncle sang operettas.
- Her sister Lydia Maresca, herself an actress with the stage name Lidia Martora, was the wife of Peppino De Filippo.
- In 1938, at the age of 15, Maresca joined the company of Erminio Macario, becoming one of the comedy performers in Turin.
- Over the next decade, she worked with Carlo Dapporto, where, in imitation of Josephine Baker, Maresca appeared on stage in a thong and bra of bananas.
- In other shows, she performed topless, while in still others, she wore only the heads of three black fox to cover the appropriate areas.
- In 1946, she created her own company, and a few months later, she took on a young novice comedian, Walter Chiari, with whom she began a relationship.
- In 1950, she retired from acting to marry Count Corrado Agusta, owner (with his brothers) of Agusta; they had a son Richard, nicknamed Rocky.
- Maresca's husband left her for Francesca Vacca Graffagni.
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