Actress Marisa Pavan Is DEAD To Me!

Son Jean-Claude Aumont.

Great in The Rose Tattoo. RIP.

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Mystery guest on WML in 1956.

And ten years later.

Wasn't JPA gay or at least bi?

Marisa Pavan has always been one of my favorite stage names. It just flows perfectly off the tongue. Until recently, I couldn't even name a film she was in, but I never forgot the name: Ma-Rissa Pa-Van.

It's no Mitzi Mayfair, r7.

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She played blind against John Cassavetes in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode "You Got to Have Luck".

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R10 wasn't her character deaf, hence why she could never er have used the telephone, which gives the sexy criminal away?

Ah yes deaf not blind.

Her sister Pier committed suicide 52 years ago.

Mazel tov.

R13, Pier could not find work and had sunk into a depression. Close friend Debbie Reynolds secured Pier a guest starring role on “Bonanza”, then a very popular show, but she killed herself without ever knowing that.

Pier and Debbie.

They were fraternal twins.

Marisa was very good in The Man In The Gray Flannel Suit as the girl who Greg Peck has an affair with during WWII in Italy, unbeknownst to his wife (Jennifer Jones). Unbeknownst to him, she has a son.

She played an Indian in Drum Beat, with Alad Ladd. It wasn’t uncommon for Italian girls to be cast as Indians in the 50s.

She played a French girl in What Price Glory, opposite Robert Wagner, directed by John Ford.

She was a beauty.

RIP.

She had a pinhead.

Marisa always claimed her sister’s death was not suicide, but from complications from medication.

Weren't Pier and James Dean lovers?

How's your French?

Marisa accepts the Oscar for Anna Magnani.

[quote]It wasn’t uncommon for Italian girls to be cast as Indians in the 50s.

Maybe that's what got Buffy thinking she could take things to a whole new level.

RIP

Pier and Marisa had a hard time getting the gamine roles since Audrey was around.

Both so pretty. She outlived her twin sister by more than a half century.

Her sister Pier was Vic Damone’s punching bag.

[quote]Weren't Pier and James Dean lovers?

I thought that was a bearding relationship.

A Danny Kaye movie, "Merry Andrew," was on TCM the other day. I barely paid attention because Mr. Kaye just doesn't excite me. But I was stunned by the beauty of Pier Angeli, who looked like a cross between Audrey Hepburn and Ava Gardner.

Fraternal twin, Marisa Pavan, had more of a stereotypical Southern Italian look, with a sharper face and eyes like early Sophia Loren or Sofia Coppola.

Poor Marisa gets beaten to death with a rock.

R26 What was I, chopped liver?

Stepdaughter Tina Aumont, daughter of Jean-Pierre and Maria Montez. Tina died in 2006.

[quote]Jean Pierre was sure almost the moment he met Marisa. He saw in her soft brown eyes the same need for tenderness and understanding that he himself had felt for so long, ever since the tragic death of Maria Montez. That magnificent, volatile woman, whose memory is ever present in the person of their eleven-year-old daughter, Maria Christina, was as different from Marisa as it is possible to be. Spectacular and dramatic, her every gesture and movement made up a study in voluptuousness. Yet, oddly enough, Marisa, like Maria Montez, is a Gemini. Jean Pierre, who was born under the sign of Capricorn, is passionately interested in astrology. Not a day goes by that he doesn’t consult his horoscope and those of Marisa and Maria Christina. He asked Marisa to marry him because he loved her, of course, but he couldn’t have been more delighted when he discovered she was a Gemini. Yes, Jean Pierre was sure, but he wanted Maria Christina to meet Marisa. He had promised himself that he would remarry only if his daughter approved of his choice. So he brought Maria Christina from New York, where she was staying with his parents. She and Marisa became fast friends almost instantly. “Fortunately, I had plenty of experience with little girls Tina’s age,” Marisa was saying. “My baby sister, Patrizia, is just the same age, and I helped my mother to raise her. They are very different in character. Pat is soft and pliable, whereas Maria Christina is independent and stubborn. Whenever the two of them are together, they fight like wildcats, but they love each other.” Tenderness crept into Marisa’s voice.

R29 Not everything is a bearding relationship. Didn’t Pier say Dean was the love of her life?

Miss Montez