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.
