Today marks the 25th remembrance day
of the passing of Marisa Mell on May 16th 1992, after losing her battle with throat
cancer at the Wilhelminenspital, in Vienna, Austria. Her best friend actress,
author and publisher Erika Pluhar wrote in her famous book “Marisa Mell –
Rückblenden auf einer Freundschaft” shortly after her death the
following eulogy:
“Marisa,
My dearest friend Marlies
When we strolled through the park of Schloss
Schönbrunn 35 years ago we tried to grasp the secrets of life in our
conversations. Life was in front of us, and we walked full of hope into its
direction.
Now I have to say goodbye to you…and that hurts
immensely.
You have fulfilled your life on Earth! It was full of
glamour and hardship. It has gifted you with beauty, wisdom and talent… but it
has also gifted you in the end with nothing.
What does give your early departure a glow, and what
will stay with your friends forever, whom are now left behind, in the years to
come, is another kind of beauty, which death could not wrangle from you, and
that is your last wild coarsely laughter, which I will never forget.
We, your friends, your family of the “other art”, will
never forget you.
We love you!
I will say only two words, which you always said when
saying goodbye to your friends, and which you loved to say:
CIAO AMORE!”
Tonight I will watch as a remembrance of this date one of my
favorite Marisa Mell movies “French Dressing” to see her on the screen in all
her beauty, wisdom and talent but foremost to hear her wild coarsely laughter
as a reminder that one’s life has to be cherished each and every day so that at
the end of it, while crossing the Styx, you can look back at fond memories
with a more than satisfied feeling that your life was worth living.
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