Biographies: Marisa Pavan - Actor

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An Italian actress, born in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, as Maria Luisa Pierangeli. Pavan won a Golden Globe Award in 1956 for the film The Rose Tattoo (1955), and for the same film, she was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. She married actor and writer Jean-Pierre Aumont in 1956, gave birth to two children, and remained with him until he died in 2001. Among the most important works of Marisa Pavan are The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956), What Price Glory (1952), Solomon and Sheba (1959), and The Rose Tattoo (1955). Pavan studied at Torcado Tosso College in Italy before coming to the United States of America in the early 1950s. In the sixties, she sang with her husband in nightclubs, and they toured the United States of America, Canada, and Mexico. She focused her efforts during the sixties and seventies by working in television.