Marisa Pavan
In "The Rose Tattoo"
Marisa Pavan played
the daughter, Rose...
Anna Magnani played
Rose's mother ...
Her Screen debut
in
Maria Luisa Pierangeli and her sister Pierre Angeli (birth name Anna Maria Pierangeli, who was older by a few minutes)
were born on June 19, 1932, in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. Their father, Luigi, was an architect and construction engineer, and their mother, Enrica, was a homemaker who once dreamed of being an actress.
Marisa Pavan was sister to actress (Anna) Pierre Angeli.
"My mother adored Shirley Temple and took us to see all her movies," Pavan said in Jane Allen's 2002 book, Pier Angeli: A Fragile Life. "She even dressed us like Shirley Temple, hence the big bows in our hair."
The family moved to Rome in the mid-1930s and was threatened when the Nazis occupied the city.
When she was 16, (her sister)
Anna was strolling along the Via Veneto on the way home from art school when she was discovered by Vittorio De Sica, and she portrayed a teenager on the verge of a sexual awakening opposite him in Tomorrow Is Too Late (1950). That brought her to the attention of MGM, which cast her in Teresa (1951), signed her to a seven-year contract and gave her the stage name Pier Angeli.
Angeli and her sister then moved to Los Angeles, and
Maria, with no acting experience, was signed by Fox.
Newly christened Marisa Pavan,
she made her big-screen debut as a French girl in John Ford's World War I-set What Price Glory (1952), starring James Cagney and Dan Dailey.
Pavan then appeared in 1954 in the film noir Down Three Dark Streets and in the Western Drum Beat, starring Broderick Crawford and Alan Ladd, respectively, before she broke out in The Rose Tattoo.
Pavan also co-starred in a pair of epic adventures released in 1959, playing Robert Stack's love interest in John Farrow's John Paul Jones (1959) and the servant Abishag in King Vidor's Solomon and Sheba (1959). In the latter, she worked alongside Yul Brynner, who joined the film in Spain after the sudden death of Tyrone Power.
Marisa Pavan worked mainly in television after that, with stints on such shows as:
and
** Note: These dramatic shows
exist on YouTube and Dailymotion, but as with recorded music, the greed dogs
make them hard to find...
In 1976, she appeared as Kirk Douglas' mentally ill wife in the Arthur Hailey NBC miniseries The Moneychangers, and she played Chantal Dubujak, mother of crime lord Max DuBujak (Daniel Pilon), in 1985 on the ABC soap opera Ryan's Hope.
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(Her sister) Pierre Angeli,
who dated James Dean
before
she married singer Vic Damone
and portrayed the wife of champion boxer Rocky Marciano (played by Paul Newman)
in 1956's
died in 1971 at age 39 of a barbiturate overdose at a Beverly Hills apartment. It was never firmly established whether she died by suicide or suffered a reaction to prescribed medication.
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Marisa Pavan was married to French actor Jean-Pierre Aumont (her castmate in John Paul Jones) from 1956 until his 2001 death.
Survivors include her sons, Jean-Claude and Patrick, and her younger sister, Patrizia Pierangeli, also an actress.
Marisa Pavani @ 91
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