Marisa Pavan obituary, strong-willed Italian actress who starred in The Rose Tattoo
The Times
One-half of acting sisters, who worked with Tennessee Williams, Cubby Broccoli and a host of matinee idols but refused to bow to the whims of Hollywood
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“My twin sister and my mother were survivors,” reflected the Italian actress Marisa Pavan, “and I feel I am too. I’m grateful for my past, for what I went through during the war … I’d say we were strong, definitely not weak.”

Although by nature an understated observer, that inner steel, which she found American girls her age did not have, stood her in good stead in the 1950s as she made her name in Hollywood films such as The Rose Tattoo.

It later enabled her to stand up to studio executives and to overcome the death of her fraternal twin, Anna Maria. Under the stage name Pier Angeli, she had become much the bigger star of the two, not least as the girlfriend