Mara Maryl

Mara Maryl

Birth : 1939-04-07, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy

History

Born Chianetta Mara, Maryl graduated from Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia di Roma in 1957 and went on to appear in a number of comedies under the name Mara Ombra. After marrying screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi in 1960, she adopted the names Mara Maryl (for acting) and Maria Chianetta (for writing credits); usually only appearing in films her husband directed.

Profile

Mara Maryl

Movies

The Scorpion with Two Tails
Screenplay
An archeologist's wife has recurring nightmares about ritual killings in an Etruscan tomb while her husband is away excavating a lost temple. After a phone call where she is forced to listen to him being murdered, she travels to the excavation site to solve the mystery of his death.
Screams in the Night
Brigitte
When a member of a group of occultists is violently slain, the rest repair to the woods, where they are haunted by an apparently supernatural force.
The Great Alligator
Writer
A tourist resort in Africa finds itself at the mercy of a huge man-eating crocodile from a local native legend which the croc is the incarnation of a native god angered by the intrusion of the tourists on its nesting ground. After a new natives are killed and eaten, they naturally blame the tourists and set out to kill them while the survivors try to rally on a boat with the hungry crocodile in the water, and the blood-thirsty natives on land waiting for them.
La lunga spiaggia fredda
Jane
A married couple on a weekend away when their private party is crashed by a band of local bikers. They tie up the man and the leader rapes his wife. The wife and the bike leader then fall for one another, that turns out to be bad news for the husband, and for the bike gang...
Cheers... Cyanide!
Poupette
French / Italian espionage thriller.
Cheers... Cyanide!
Story
French / Italian espionage thriller.
Libido
Story
A young man visits his ancestral home accompanied by his guardian and their wives, where he is plagued by the memories and influence of his murderous, psychosexual father.
Libido
Brigitte
A young man visits his ancestral home accompanied by his guardian and their wives, where he is plagued by the memories and influence of his murderous, psychosexual father.
Marriage Italian Style
When Domenico first meets Filomena in Naples during World War II, he is instantly smitten. Flash forward to the postwar years, and the two meet again, sparking a passionate affair that spans two decades. But when Filomena — who has now become Domenico's kept woman and has secretly borne his children — learns that her lover is planning to wed another, she will stop at nothing to hook him into marrying her instead.
The Passionate Thief
On New Year's Eve, a young woman and an out-of-work actor complicate a pickpocket's plans to ply his trade.
Oh! Sabella
Raffaele, a Neapolitan student, get the news that his beloved grandmother Sabella is dying. He immediately goes to Pollena to be beside her.