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I Piu Belli Locandini di Marisa Mell
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Marisa Mell - A Natural Beauty!
This beautiful picture from 1967 of Marisa Mell is one of the rare pictures where the photographer was able to capture her amazing notorious emerald green eyes in exquisite detail! What makes this picture even more special is the condition of the skin of Marisa Mell laced with freckels, blemishes and unevenness, which nowadays would be covered with thick layers of foundation or make-up or removed altogether with Photoshop to make a smooth even looking unnatural skin or face, making it all very artificial! Not in the 60's, the faces of actresses as nature created them were accepted as natural beauties by the public. We have come a long way since then in accepting what is seen as beautiful and personally I think it is mostly not for the better!
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A Butterfly Among Flies Revisited!
The Italian Western "Amico stammi lontano almeno un palmo" from 1972 is one of my favorite Marisa Mell movies. Not because the movie has a great story or that Marisa Mell had a leading part or that it is one of the cult westerns from that era, no, it is one of my favorite Marisa Mell films solely because it has in my opinion the most beautiful cameo Marisa Mell ever had in her movie career, with a segment that runs no longer than around 15 minutes. What makes it so captivating is that it is a movie within a movie with Marisa Mell at the height of her beauty and acting abilities together with a superb Guiliano Gemma as her counterpart. For the complete analysis of that cameo, visit A Butterfly Among Flies! on this blog! For the last entry this month honoring 25 years since the sad passing of Marisa Mell, here are some behind the scene pictures taken during the summer of 1971 in Ameria, Spain, while shooting their scenes. These are some wonderful pictures of Marisa Mell, who was enjoying herself immensely during the shoot with her co-star Gemma.
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Women in Red!
Marisa Mell had just finished theatre school when she was cast in 1959 in the role of "Alka" for the West-German production "Am Galgen hängt die Liebe", a war story based on a Greek tragedy! To promote her as an up and coming actress for this black and white movie this promotional photo was made where Marisa Mell was gorgeously shot in all her beauty at the tender age of 20 years. The photo was strongly enhanced in color, even changing her emerald green eyes into aqua blue eyes for a more dramatic effect! Making this photo also special is the way Marisa Mell is sending a very clear no nonsens message to the person standing next to the lens, one might even call it an accusing stare at that person! To my knowledge, never ever again in her career she made a photo like this one with such intensity!
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Dopo Di Che, Uccide Il Maschio e Lo Divora'!
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Senza Via D'Uscita!
Marisa Mell was in a relationship for several years with a very known Italian playboy Pier Luigi Torri, who dabbled as a movie producer, a night club owner, a mob confidant and a drug dealer to fill up his spare time throwing around his money. So when your girl friend is one of the most beautiful women and actresses in Italy and the world at that time you need to keep her satisfied, hence he produced a movie especially for her, showing her best "assets" in full glory! Marisa Mell played the part as sex kitten and seductress extra-ordinaire to the hilt. The movie was shot in Barcelona, Spain in 1969 and premiered in early 1970. The first three photo's are promotional photo's to sell the movie to the Spanish readers of a movie and gossip magazine where Marisa Mell again declared her enduring love to Spain and the Spanish people (of course!) and announced her next movie "El Perfecto Amoral", produced by José Frade and directed by Nieves Condé, which in the end never happened! In the last photo, Marisa Mell as the sex kitten has to show some leg to entice the readers to go see the movie of her boy friend Pier Luigi Torri, which in the end was not a big success. Luckily for us they would never work again together and shortly after the relationship came to a brutal end.
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Back to the '70's!
Having seen dozens and dozens Marisa Mell pictures from all her different phases in her life, this is a picture that I have recently found that I have never ever seen before! Very sexy from the early '70's.
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Reflections in emerald green eyes!
At the end of her movie career, Marisa Mell had no other means of earning an income than to do some dubious photo shoots in Rome. These photo shoots were her last straw of earning some kind of money but in honest, she had more than enough of it all. She was ready to pack up her few belongings that she still had and not sold off and return to Vienna, Austria! She tried to postpone this, having lived in Rome the jet set life style for more than 25 years, it would not be easy to adjust again to a more down to earth life style, but reality kicked in very hard. This photo is a picture that says more than thousand words could ever describe how she felt about the whole situation in her life! The photo should make her look sexy, enticing people to buy the magazine wanting to see more of her body but in reality the hurt that you see in her eyes is just mind blowing.
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La Encadenada Trailer Reel!
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Amazon Queen
Marisa Mell as Amazon Queen, photographed by Angelo Frontoni, around 1970.
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Starlet 1960
Marisa Mell as a struggling starlet in early 1960.
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From Japan With Love 1971
Marisa Mell was not only big in Europe and Latin America at the end of the '60's and during the '70's, but also quite known in the Land of the Rising Sun, Japan. This picture was taken by Angelo Frontoni, her favoriter Italian jet-set photographer, around 1967-1969, and used to illustrate the month of June 1971. So the picture was not a recent one, but a few years older then the date on the calander. How do we know? After the débâcle the musical "Mata Hari", Marisa Mell took it personally very hard that the show was such a big flop in America and bombed her career in the States, that she physically aged quite quickly afterwards. She was still very beautiful but due to the mishap she had lost the "freshness" in her face that you still can see in this picture.
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Marisa Mell by Elizabeth Yoo
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"Marisa Mell" by Pietro Domenico Moro (Pidimoro)
"Marisa Mell" by Pietro Domenico Moro (Pidimoro)
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"Everybody Has Something To Hide" Reprise (Mata Hari)
In the autumn of 1967, Marisa Mell was in full rehearsal mode for the opening of the musical Mata Hari, planned for January 13th 1968 at the Alvin Theatre in New York City. So dress fittings were also on her agenda. This is a very rare photo from one of the dress fittings with famous costume designer Irene Sharaff, who did almost all famous Broadway musical productions of that era like Funny Girl and Hello, Dolly! with Barbra Streisand, and of course movies like Cleopatra with Elisabeth Taylor or the King and I with Yul Brynner. And as always Marisa Mell, being a heavy chain smoker, is smoking a cigarette during the dress fitting.
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"Marisa Mell" by Pierluigi Torri
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Cannes Film Festival-May 8th 1969
Marisa Mell arrives at the Cannes Film Festival on May 8th 1969
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Alma Mahler-Werfel
Marisa Mell as “Alma Mahler-Werfel”
Alma Maria Mahler Gropius Werfel, born Alma Margaretha Maria Schindler; 31 August 1879 – 11 December 1964, was a Viennese-born composer, author, editor and socialite. At age fifteen, she was mentored by Max Burckhard. Musically active from her early years, she was the composer of at least 17 songs for voice and piano. In her early years, she fell in love with composer and conductor Alexander von Zemlinsky, but their relationship did not last long. She became the wife of composer Gustav Mahler, who did not approve of her continuing to compose music. Eventually she fell into depression from being artistically stifled. While her marriage was struggling, she had an affair with Walter Gropius. Gustav started to encourage Alma's composing and helped prepare some of her compositions for publication, but died soon after this attempted reconciliation in 1911. Alma married Gropius in 1915 and the couple had a daughter together, Manon Gropius. During her marriage to Gropius, Alma had an affair with Franz Werfel. Alma and Werfel were eventually married after Alma separated from Gropius. In 1938, after the Anschluss, Werfel and Alma were forced to flee Austria as it was unsafe for Jews. Eventually the couple settled in Los Angeles. In later years, her salon became part of the artistic scene, first in Vienna, then in Los Angeles and in New York.
Alma Mahler-Werfel died 11 December 1964 in New York City. She was buried on 8 February 1965 in the Grinzing Cemetery of Vienna, in the same cemetery as her daughter Manon Gropius and her first husband Gustav Mahler.
This was a theatre production in honor of poet Franz Werfel's 100th anniversary of his birthday on September 10th 1990. The production "Dort und Hier" started in Graz-Austria, Marisa Mell's home town, and did presumably go on tour in Austria. Sadly there is not much information known of this production, even André Schneider, author of the great Marisa Mell book "Die Feuerblume -Über Marisa Mell und ihre Filme, has not much information about this production. Sadly it was one of the last theatre productions of Marisa Mell because soon after she became very ill leading up to her untimely death!
A young Alma Mahler-Werfel
Thanks to André Schneider for providing this wonderful theatre broschure which is quite hard to find.
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The Aloof
Marisa Mell was one of the It-Girls from the Swinging Sixties. Although she was professionaly based in Rome, Italy, she was well aware of what happened in the UK and USA regarding fashion, music and movies. So once in a while she got a photo opportunity dressing up in 60's London Carnaby Street style, which was completely different from the mediterranean fashion styles she was used to. Hence these pictures show a completely different Marisa Mell and demonstrates that she was capable of taking on a lot of different personalities in the right outfit. Seeing these pictures always reminds me of "The Aloof" from the 1969 movie "Sweet Charity" with Shirley MacLaine, and the quirky music.
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Summer of '69
Marisa Mell in the Summer of '69
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Angelo Frontoni
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