Marisa Pavan

Marisa Pavan was born on Jun 19, 1932 in Italy. Marisa Pavan's big-screen debut came with What Price Glory directed by John Ford in 1952. Marisa Pavan is known for Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers directed by Boris Sagal, Kirk Douglas stars as Alex Vandervoort and Christopher Plummer as Roscoe Heyward. Marisa Pavan has got 1 awards and 2 nominations so far. The most recent award Marisa Pavan achieved is Golden Globes, USA. The upcoming new movie Marisa Pavan plays is The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald which will be released on Sep 30, 1977.

Maria Luisa Pierangeli and her twin sister Anna Maria were born in Sardinia, Italy. They were fraternal twins with different personalities as well. Anna Maria was dreamy and innocent; Maria Luisa was independent and studious. They moved to Rome in the late 1940s. In 1948 their lives changed when director Vittorio De Sica cast Anna in Demain il sera trop tard (1950). In 1950 the family moved to Hollywood, where Anna Maria changed her name to Pier Angeli.Marisa was not interested in acting, but was cast by John Ford in Deux durs à cuire (1952) starring James Cagney. She changed her last name to Pavan, the name of a Jewish officer her family had hidden from the Nazis during World War 2. Marisa signed a contract with Fox, but was relieved when it was broken. She wanted a wider choice of roles than her sister. Pavan's performance in La rose tatouée (1955) supporting Italian icon Anna Magnani, earned her a nomination for Best Supporting Actress.She lost interest in Hollywood while filming Salomon et la reine de Saba (1959). She remembered it as a bad experience, and not just because costar Tyrone Power died during the filming. Pavan turned her attention to television in the 1960s. She and husband Jean-Pierre Aumont toured America and Europe in plays and musicals, including "Gigi". Later in France, she returned to film.As of 2018, Pavan lives in the South of France. Marisa is the founder and director of URMA (Unis pour la Recherche sur la Maladie d'Alzheimer), an organization she created to support research working to find treatments for Alzheimer's.