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Gregory Peck and Marisa Pavan in The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)

Broderick Crawford and Marisa Pavan in Down Three Dark Streets (1954)

Roger Moore, Lana Turner, and Marisa Pavan in Diane (1956)

Marisa Pavan in The Midnight Story (1957)

Tony Curtis, Argentina Brunetti, Richard Monda, Marisa Pavan, and Gilbert Roland in The Midnight Story (1957)

Marisa Pavan and Gilbert Roland in The Midnight Story (1957)

Fredric March and Marisa Pavan in The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)

Yul Brynner, William Devlin, Laurence Naismith, and Marisa Pavan in Solomon and Sheba (1959)

Yul Brynner and Marisa Pavan in Solomon and Sheba (1959)

Johnny Carson, Jessie Royce Landis, and Marisa Pavan in The United States Steel Hour (1953)

"Target For Three" (Playhouse 90') Ricardo Montalban,  Marisa Pavan, George C. Scott 1959 CBS

Pier Angeli, Debbie Reynolds, and Marisa Pavan

Ben Cooper and Marisa Pavan in The Rose Tattoo (1955)

Alan Ladd and Marisa Pavan in Drum Beat (1954)

Alan Ladd, Audrey Dalton, and Marisa Pavan in Drum Beat (1954)

Marisa Pavan in The Kaiser Aluminum Hour (1956)

Tony Curtis and Marisa Pavan in The Midnight Story (1957)

Pier Angeli, Jean-Pierre Aumont, and Marisa Pavan

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 Tomorrow Is Too Late (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 What Price Glory (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 The Rose Tattoo (1955) supporting Italian icon Anna Magnani, earned her a nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

She lost interest in Hollywood while filming Solomon and Sheba (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.

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