Who Are Those Singers & Musicians ~ Marisa Mell

 

Marlies Theres Moitzi was born in Graz, Austria on February 24, 1939. She left her home to attend the Max Reinhardt drama school where her fellow students briefly included Senta Berger. After four years in stage work, she began to appear in starring roles in European films.

In 1963, she was involved in a serious automobile accident in France. For six hours, she lay unconscious, unaware that she had nearly lost her right eye. The disfigurement extended to her lip as well. She spent the next two years undergoing plastic surgery, and no damage remained in her face except for a distinctive curl of her upper lip.

Mell's name had been romantically linked with a number of European and Hollywood male stars, but in Italy she was often the center of paparazzi stories along with Pier Luigi Torri, her aristocratic, nightclub-owing boyfriend. As one of the more recognizable beauties in Italian film, Mell continued to work steadily throughout the 1970s and appeared in some 69 films and posed for Italian Playboy.

She released a 45-rpm recording of “Lady O” / “Slave Of Love” in 1981.

Mell's marketability depended on her youth and stunning looks, which hardly faded, even as she moved into middle age. In Italy, where she had been a genuine celebrity, her box-office appeal had declined by the late 1980s, hardly unusual for a woman of her age in that era. Mell's public profile was very low by her later years although she got some acting work shortly before her death in Vienna, Austria of throat cancer on May 16, 1992, at the age of 53.

Mell sang the main theme of the 1972 Spaghetti western “Tutti fratelli nel west... per parte di padre” (Where the Bullets Fly) in which she co-starred in.

MELL, Marisa (aka Marisa Mel, Marisa Moitzi) (Marlies Theres Moitzi) [2/24/1939, Graz, Austria – 5/16/1992, Vienna, Austria (throat cancer)] – model, theater, film, TV actress, singer, married to Henri Tucci (1959-1963), mother of Louisa Erika [1977-1977] with ?, half-great-aunt of actor Alexander Moitzi [1984-     ].

Where the Bullets Fly – 1972 [sings “Where the Bullets Fly”)