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Schneider, Romy (1938-1982)
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Romy Schneider was born on 23 September 1938 as the daughter of two popular actors, Wolf Albach-Retty and Magda Schneider. After her parents’ divorce in 1945, Magda took care of Romy, and eventually also supervised her career. In 1953 Magda Schneider starred in the film "Wenn der weiße Flieder wieder blüht" with the role of her film daughter being played by her biological daughter.
In 1954 Romy Schneider for the first time portrayed a royal. Soon afterwards she was given the role that would change her life for ever. Schneider made her breakthrough with her portrayal of Empress Elisabeth of Austria in the romantic biopic Sissi (1955) and its two sequels (1956 and 1957).
Fed up with the image of sweet girl these movies had bestow upon her, Schneider leapt at the chance to star in the much more solemn Christine (1958), a remake of Max Ophüls's 1933 film Liebelei (itself based upon a play by Arthur Schnitzler). During the shooting Schneider fell in love with the French actor Alain Delon and moved to Paris to live with him.
Schneider's international film career was triggered with her move to France where she worked with film directors such as Orson Welles (Le Procès of 1963, based upon Franz Kafka's The Trial), Luchino Visconti, Otto Preminger, and Claude Chabrol. Together with Michel Piccoli and Yves Montand, Romy Schneider became the epitome of French movies.
In 1964 Delon left Romy Schneider who attempted to commit suicide. Soon afterwards she met the German director Harry Meyen whom she married in 1966; her son was born the same year. In 1975 Schneider divorced from Meyen to marry her secretary Daniel Biasini. Their daughter Sarah was born in 1977. Shortly after her third marriage also turned out a failure, her 14-year-old son who was found dead, impaled on a fence which he had attempted to climb. A smoker all her life, Schneider also took to drinking and taking pills. When Romy Schneider was found dead in her apartment in Paris, on 29 May 1982, rumors had it that she had committed suicide; the official cause of death was heart failure.
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In 1954 Romy Schneider for the first time portrayed a royal. Soon afterwards she was given the role that would change her life for ever. Schneider made her breakthrough with her portrayal of Empress Elisabeth of Austria in the romantic biopic Sissi (1955) and its two sequels (1956 and 1957).
Fed up with the image of sweet girl these movies had bestow upon her, Schneider leapt at the chance to star in the much more solemn Christine (1958), a remake of Max Ophüls's 1933 film Liebelei (itself based upon a play by Arthur Schnitzler). During the shooting Schneider fell in love with the French actor Alain Delon and moved to Paris to live with him.
Schneider's international film career was triggered with her move to France where she worked with film directors such as Orson Welles (Le Procès of 1963, based upon Franz Kafka's The Trial), Luchino Visconti, Otto Preminger, and Claude Chabrol. Together with Michel Piccoli and Yves Montand, Romy Schneider became the epitome of French movies.
In 1964 Delon left Romy Schneider who attempted to commit suicide. Soon afterwards she met the German director Harry Meyen whom she married in 1966; her son was born the same year. In 1975 Schneider divorced from Meyen to marry her secretary Daniel Biasini. Their daughter Sarah was born in 1977. Shortly after her third marriage also turned out a failure, her 14-year-old son who was found dead, impaled on a fence which he had attempted to climb. A smoker all her life, Schneider also took to drinking and taking pills. When Romy Schneider was found dead in her apartment in Paris, on 29 May 1982, rumors had it that she had committed suicide; the official cause of death was heart failure.
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