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Saturday, May 25, 2019

"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. 

Friday, May 17, 2019

Sunday, May 5, 2019

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.