Dawn Addams and Prince Massimo

Dawn Addams and Prince Massimo

Cork Film Festival, Dawn Addams, Prince Vittorio Massimo, Midleton Agriculture Show

This is a black and white photo of the English actor Dawn Addams and her husband, Prince Vittorio Emanuele Massimo from Rome, at the Midleton Agriculture Show in 1957. They are shown standing in a field with a small dark bull, adorned with prize-winning rosettes, which Prince Massimo is holding with a rope tethered to the ring in its nose. Addams is standing on the left of the bull with her hands on the short horns of the animal. Wearing a dark suit with a white collar, she is smiling at the camera. Her husband, in a suit accessorised with a light-check waist coat, stands on the right, and is looking down while resting his right hand on the neck of the bull. Children can be seen standing behind the couple, including two boys wearing suits. They stand and gaze at the camera, one of the boys smokes a cigarette while the girl, with a short bob hair cut, has her arm around the shoulders of a young boy.

Dawn Addams married Prince Massimo, from the princely house of Massimo, historically one of the great aristocratic families of Rome and major patrons of the arts, in 1954. By all accounts they had a tumultuous relationship and by 1959 Addams sought a divorce which was only granted in 1971 due to strict catholic-influenced Italian laws.

University College Cork, Cork Film Festival, Ambrose O'Mullane

Cork Film Festival Collection

University College Cork

1957

Ambrose O'Mullane

Photo, 217 x 170mm
TIFF
JPEG

English, eng

1957
Cork, Ireland

Photo

217 x 170mm