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Malisa Longo is known for:

  • A Cat in the Brain
    The master of Italian horror, Lucio Fulci, stars as... Lucio Fulci, a filmmaker with a reputation for gruesome horror films. His body of work has started to plague his mental state, and he is haunted by the grotesque set-pieces his mind has conjured up during his career. His psychiatrist, Egon Swharz, uses a hypnotised Fulci as an avatar to carry out his own disturbed fantasies, in hopes of ruining the master’s reputation once and for all.
  • City of Women
    A businessman finds himself trapped at a hotel and threatened by women en masse.
  • The Way of the Dragon
    Tang Lung arrives in Rome to help his cousins in the restaurant business. They are being pressured to sell their property to the syndicate, who will stop at nothing to get what they want. When Tang arrives he poses a new threat to the syndicate, and they are unable to defeat him. The syndicate boss hires the best Japanese and European martial artists to fight Tang, but he easily finishes them off.

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Biography

Malisa Longo (born 13 July 1950) is an Italian actress, model and writer. Born Maria Luisa Longo in Venice, at young age Longo moved to Rome where she started a career as a model; she entered the Miss Italia beauty contest, winning the Miss Cinema and the Miss Lazio titles. After having appeared in a number of commercials, Longo made her acting debut in 1968, in the Antonio Margheriti's giallo film The Young, the Evil, and the Savage. She then appeared in a number of films, sometimes in main roles, and was especially active in the Nazisploitation and commedia sexy all'italiana genres. She is perhaps most famous worldwide for her cameo early in Bruce Lee's film Way of the Dragon. Longo retired from acting in 1997. In 2000 she debuted as a writer with the novel Così come sono, and her works include poetries (Il cantico del corpo) and essays (Aggiungi un seggio a tavola). Longo was married to film producer Riccardo Billi and resides in Chicago, Illinois. Description above from the Wikipedia article Malisa Longo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.