The 17th Cannes Film Festival

The 17th Cannes Film Festival was held from 29 April to 14 May 1964. The Palme d’Or is renamed 'Grand Prix International du Festival', the name that will be used until 1975.

 The 28th of April - the day before the actual beginning of the festival, Michele was pictured on the beach.

 

Gli anni ruggenti сocktail-party

29th January 1962: Cocktail-party on the occasion of the production of the film Gli anni ruggenti (1962).

On the set of Gli anni ruggenti (1962)

Gli anni ruggenti / Roaring Years  - is a 1962 Italian comedy film directed by Luigi Zampa set in the 1930s during the Fascist period of Benito Mussolini. It stars Nino Manfredi,Gino Cervi and Michele Mercier (Elvira Acquamano).

The film won Best Feature at the 1962 Locarno International Film Festival.

  

At Fiumicino airport

30 September 1966: Michele Mercier arrives at Fiumicino airport. The purpose is participation in Sorrento Film Festival (Incontri Internazionali del Cinema).

Michele by Ivan Nagy

1963 (1964): Peculiar photo shoot by Ivan Nagy

 

Photos from Das gewisse Etwas der Frauen (1966)

Das gewisse Etwas der Frauen / Come imparai ad amare le donne / How I Learned to Love Women (1966) movie by Luciano Salce with Michèle Mercier, Nadja Tiller, Elsa Martinelli, Anita Ekberg, Zarah Leander and Romina Power.

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Screen debut in J'avais sept filles

Year 1954, Jocelyne Yvonne Renée Mercier is only 14 and she is a promising ballet dancer. She was chosen to play a small part in J'avais sept filles (My Seven Little Sins) - the movie by Jean Boyer, with Maurice Chevalier in the title role.

"You're so pretty, if you have talent, you will do great in life"
On the set of J'avais sept filles at the Opéra de Nice

 

 

 

Michele by Francois Pages

1964: Beautiful photo shoot by Francois Pages:

 

At Cannes Film Festival

May 1961: during 14th Cannes Film Festival

With Guy Madison

Michele poses with Guy Madison (with whom she had an affair) on the set of Le prigioniere dell'isola del diavolo (1962) and Il giustiziere dei mari (1962) - the films were shot simultaneously and shared the director - Domenico Paolella, location, decorations and even actors.

Guy Madison is her partner in Le prigioniere dell'isola del diavolo (Women of Devil's Island), but the dress is from Il giustiziere dei mari (Avenger of the Seven Seas).

 

Photos from A Global Affair (1964)

A Global Affair is a 1964 film directed by Jack Arnold, and starring Bob Hope, Michele Mercier, Yvonne De Carlo, Elga Andersen.

 A baby is abandoned at the United Nations headquarters in New York by a mother who has heard the UN's Frank Larrimore speak out on behalf of women's rights.Because the baby is in international territory, his nationality unknown, Frank is willing to take the baby home until a proper home can be determined. His landlord forbids kids, so Frank smuggles the child into his apartment.UN guide Lisette (Mercier) likes the idea of marrying Frank and adopting the baby, but is offended by Frank's playboy pal Randy using it as a way to meet beautiful, wedding-minded single women. Frank finally earns her forgiveness and love, and the baby will be theirs.

Promotional photos with Bob Hope, Elga Andersen and Liselotte Pulver

Photos from Nella stretta morsa del ragno (1971)

Nella stretta morsa del ragno (aka Web of the Spider, Les fantômes de Hurlevent, Dracula im Schloß des Schreckens) is the 1971 Italian horror film directed by Antonio Margheriti.

The journalist Alan Foster makes (Anthony Franciosa) a bet than he can spend one night at the haunted Blackwood Castle. As he learns, the rumors of ghosts at the castle are indeed true. On All Soul's Eve the ghosts of the castle search for blood to tide them over for another year. In the castle Foster meet and fall in love with Elizabeth Blackwood (Michele Mercier). 

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Photo shoot by Sam Lévin in 1966

1966: Another beautiful photo shoot by Sam Lévin. Michele wears a blonde wig, which she used in the film La seconde vérité (1966)

At the beauty salon

1962: At the beauty salon.

 

 Photos by Jerry Tannen

La Pupa

Photo shoot by Pierluigi Praturlon on the set of the film La Pupa:

Pierluigi Praturlon (often known simply as 'Pierluigi') was born in Rome in 1924. Shortly after the war, Pierluigi drifted in photography and got his first major 'scoop' when he spotted the reclusive Greta Garbo on a visit to Rome. His notoriety grew, and he soon found himself as a regular fixture on the Cinecitta film sets.
In the past, on-set photographers had contented themselves with posed portraits of stars between takes, but Pierluigi brought a fresh vitality to this genre by employing reportage-style photography on set.

  

Photos from Shoot the Piano Player (1960)

Shoot the Piano Player (Tirez sur le pianiste) is a 1960 French crime drama film directed by François Truffaut and starring Charles Aznavour as the titular pianist. It is based on the novel Down There by David Goodis. 

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