Marisa Mell

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Marisa Mell 24 February 1939 16 May 1992 was an Austrian actress who became a cult figure of 1960s Italian Bmovies She was born as Marlies Theres Moitzi in Graz Austria In 1963 she was involved in a violent automobile accident in France For six hours she lay unconscious unaware that she 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 She turned down a sevenyear Hollywood contract saying that while the payment would have been great the contract was a whole book I think that even to go to the toilet I would have needed a permission In 1967 she performed the title role in the utterly calamitous musical Mata Hari alongside Pernell Roberts After a preview performance in Washington DC that became infamous for its numerous technical problems producer David Merrick decided to close the production before its scheduled Broadway run She is best known for the role of Eva Kant in Danger Diabolik 1968 In the late 1990s the television show MST3K brought the actress to a new generation of Bmovie viewers when the film was featured on an episode The show also spoofed another of her starring roles in the film Secret Agent Super Dragon She died in Vienna from throat cancer in 1992 aged 53 Description above from the Wikipedia article Marisa Mell licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia