Marisa Mell & Pier Luigi Torri Having Drinks At Cannes Film Festival

Original photography of Marisa Mell (of Danger Diabolik fame) and boyfriend Pier Luigi Torri having drinks at the Cannes Film Festival (this is a larger print of one of the images offered in our Cannes Film Festival lot). Pier Luigi Torri is an interesting character himself, he produced several Italian films from the time period of 1964 - 1971, even producing one of Marisa Mell's films (Devil's Ransom) in 1970.  But had multiple ties to the Italian mob and had to flee Italy in 1971 due to a notorious cocaine scandal.  Marisa Mell recounted her relationship with Torri in her autobiography as violent and unpleasant, yet supposedly they were together for a period of almost five years. This image has no photographers stamp on the back, and are on slightly stiffer paper.  It is likely a period copy, meaning taken from the original and used either for promotion or personal distribution to Marisa's friends and family at the time the photos were originally developed.  They are definitely not m