You have worked with many of the famous Greek actors, which of these collaborations do you reminisce about?
When I returned to Greece, at first, I regretted it, but when I saw how much people loved me and I started to work then I let it go. At that time, I remember Skouras contacted me to shoot a film in the States, but I told him I was leaving for Greece. I had a great career in the States and when I returned to Greece I was wondering if I had made the right choice. I would also jolt down some words and I would go on stage and sing them at night. I enjoyed some great joy, I sang without knowing the language where people were looking at me quizzically. I was with a famous gentleman and his ex-wife wasn't giving him a divorce, so I got upset and got up and left. But the reason I left for The States was purely out of stubbornness. To tell you the truth, I like it as a title. The person who baptised me ‘The Queen of the Night’ was Maroudas. And this title followed me and follows me until today. What made you abandon the idea of performing at the big music halls in Greece and leave for the States? Your impressive performance and outfits on the stage at the Greek music halls led people to give you the title of ‘The Queen of the Night’. Another big love was being on stage and performing my acts at the big music halls (bouzoukia). Theatre for me was my number one choice, and gave emphasis to theatrical performances. I also loved cinema, however not with as much enthusiasm which is why I participated in very few films.
Do you love theatre more than cinema and television? Dalianidis taught us dancing, he was telling my sister Vaso that she had very nice legs and I was angry and I was telling him about my legs if they were nice too. After a while, my sister Vaso left and I was left alone. He took me and my sister to meet Paraskevas Economou, a great teacher and actor. He would come home and say to my father "Socrates, the child has talent". And we would go, my sister and I, he set two small chairs for us and we would sit and listen to Dalianidis recite. Who was the person who discovered you and saw in you this innate talent?Īt the corner, across from my parental house, Giannis Dalianidis lived and he used to gather his friends to read them poetry. Afterward, I ran home and did what exactly I had seen in front of the mirror, impersonating the protagonist.
#Greek musition for free#
At the door, there was a clerk who worked at the cinema and he would let me enter for free in order to watch the films. Right across from my house, there was TITANIA cinema, where I used to go and watch the films with the famous actors of that period. They were the most beautiful years of my life. If I would ask you to remember your childhood years in Thessaloniki, what would you recall as easy or difficult ones? At 89 years of age Zozo is still going strong even today, making appearances in talk shows and music halls in Athens. Her celebrated legs were always the focal point in most of her movies. Her film career included mostly comedies and musicals and some costume dramas. At one point, in the late 1950s, she appeared in Las Vegas where the local press dubbed her toast of the town. She bloomed into what can only be called a brunette bombshell and appeared in musicals, comedies, vaudeville and burlesque not only in Greece but all around Europe, the Middle East and the U.S. She first appeared on stage as a child, along with her sister Vaso, as the Sapountzaki baby sisters (ta Sapountzakia).
Zozo Sapountzaki was born in Salonica, Greece and studied drama and music at the Musical Theatre School.
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