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  Romy Schneider - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Schneider's breakthrough, however, came with her portrayal of Princess Elisabeth of Bavaria -- later to become Empress Elisabeth of Austria -- in the romantic biopic Sissi (1955) and its two sequels (1956 and 1957).
A smoker all her life, Schneider also took to drinking, especially after the sudden death, on July 5, 1981, of her 14-year-old son, David, who was found impaled on a fence, which he had attempted to climb, at the home of his stepfather's parents.
When Romy Schneider was found dead in her apartment in Paris, France on May 29, 1982, at the age of only 43, rumour had it that she had committed suicide by taking a lethal cocktail of alcohol and sleeping pills.
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 Schneider - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Schneider ("tailor" in English; literally "someone who cuts," from the verb schneiden "to cut") is a very common family name in Germany.
Schneider, Indiana is a small town in the United States.
Schneider National Inc. is a leading provider of transportation, logistics and related services based in Green Bay, WI, US Schneider Electric is a France-based company.
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 Movies | Forgotten but not lost   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The childlike impulsiveness with which Schneider imbues the character is a vivid sign of the absence of restraint that characterizes the film’s corrupt dreamworld.
Schneider appears, disappears, then reappears during the film’s episodic narrative, playing a Viennese woman who has a brief and unconsummated fling with the hero during a leave of absence from the priesthood.
Schneider looks ravaged (her son had died shortly before the shooting), and there’s something pathetic in the spectacle of a marvelous actress giving her all to a film that exists only to exploit her.
www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/movies/reviews/documents/03148615.asp   (1155 words)

  
 romy schneider
Romy Schneider also becomes sociopolitical involved: in the magazine the Stern she admits togeher with hundreds of women "I had an abortion" and claims the abolition of paragraph 218.
In winter Romy cancels the role of the Lulu in the planed film version of Wedekind because of incompatible interests between her and Liliana Cavani the regisseur.
Romy dies in Paris in the early hours of the morning of the 29.
www.kinderlines.nl /homepages/sissi1a.html   (3313 words)

  
 Romy Schneider - Sisi >> German-Hollywood Connection
Romy Schneider was only 14 when she appeared in her first film (billed as Romy Schneider-Albach) playing the cinematic daughter of her own real mother, actress Magda Schneider, in a German film called Wenn der weiße Flieder wieder blüht (1953).
Romy Schneider's first trip to America was in 1958 at the invitation of Walt Disney and agent Paul Kohner.
Romy's first U.S. movie was The Victors (1962), in which she has a minor role alongside better-known European actresses: Melina Mercouri, Jeanne Moreau, Elke Sommer, and fellow Austrian Senta Berger.
www.germanhollywood.com /romyschneider.html   (887 words)

  
 Virtual Vienna Net Community - Romy Schneider (1938-1982)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Part of the 'phenomenon' Romy Schneider would seem to be that her story is never-ending, as it has long become part of millions of her admirers' story too.
Romy Schneider is born Rosemarie Magdalena Albach on 23 September 1938 in Vienna; her parents are Magda Schneider and Wolf Albach-Retty, both actors.
Schneider's part is that of a woman who feels alien in her own country, a feeling she knows only too well.
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 Harvard Film Archive: People We Like   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Schneider proves to be the most compelling piece of the unlikely romantic entanglement and provides a cool, understated performance opposite the brooding Delon.
The film features Romy Schneider (in a reprisal of her ingenue role as Princess Elisabeth of Austria) as Ludwig’s cousin, with whom he engaged in a passionate, platonic relationship despite his equal passion for men, and Trevor Howard as famed composer Richard Wagner, who took advantage of the king’s patronage to advance his own career.
Romy Schneider stars as the young Austrian student who tests the virtue of the ambitious priest.
www.harvardfilmarchive.org /calendars/03_fall/romy.html   (880 words)

  
 Romy Schneider @ Filmbug
Romy Schneider (September 23, 1938 - May 29, 1982) was an Austrian actress.
She was born in Vienna into a family of actors consisting of her paternal grandmother Rosa Albach-Retty, her father Wolf Albach-Retty, and her mother Magda Schneider.
A heavy smoker all her life, Schneider also took to drinking in her later years, especially after the sudden death, in 1981, of her son David, who in a terrible accident was impaled on a fence over which he wanted to climb.
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 Romy Schneider / FemBio: notable women   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Romy's career was cleverly managed and marketed by her stepfather, the gastronomical entrepreneur Hans-Herbert Blatzheim.
In her private life Romy Schneider was less fortunate.
Romy had spent her first fourteen years with her grandparents and in a boarding school.
www.fembio.org /women/romy-schneider.shtml   (673 words)

  
 Bitter Cinema
I am an unhappy 42-year-old woman and my name is Romy Schneider." She smoked three packs of Marlboros a day, drank heavily, and popped barbituates and stimulants.
The best is Das Romy Schneider Archiv (in German), which collects a ton of images, including portraits, posters, and an excellent collection of German magazine covers.
There's also the Romy Schneider Bilderseite, which has a lot of images not found on the Archiv, including a gallery of cardboard picture discs and 45rpm picture sleeves (like most stars of the time, Romy tried her hand as a pop songstress).
www.bittercinema.com /2005/03/romy-schneider-1938-1982.html   (452 words)

  
 Romy Schneider - Vikipedio
Romy SCHNEIDER [romi ŜNAJde], aŭ realnome: Rosemarie Magdalena ALBACH (naskiĝis la 23-an de septembro 1938, mortis la 29-an de majo 1982) estis aŭstra aktorino.
En la jaro 1958 Romy Schneider enamiĝis al sia franca kolego Alain Delon kaj transloĝiĝis al Parizo.
Ankaŭ ŝia sanstato malboniĝis, kaj kelkajn monatojn post sia lasta filmo Romy Schneider mortis en la aĝo de nur 43 jaroj en Parizo.
eo.wikipedia.org /wiki/Romy_Schneider   (253 words)

  
 Rosa Albach-Retty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
She is mainly remembered today as actress Romy Schneider's paternal grandmother.
Rosa Albach-Retty- is mother of Wolf Albach-Retty,grandmother of Romy Schneider and greatgreatmother of Sarah Biasini.She was marry to Karl Albach.Her son Wolf was an austrian movie actor who maried german movie actress Magda Schneider in 1936.
Rosa Albach-Retty is also grandmother of Romy's brother Wolf Dietrich Albach-Retty and grandgrandmother of Romy's son David Haubenstock.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rosa_Albach-Retty   (170 words)

  
 Romy Schneider: biography and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Romy Schneider-Albach (September 23, EHandler: no quick summary.
Young Romy's career was also overseen by her stepfather, EHandler: no quick summary.
In cinema, a remake is a work that has the same story, and often the same title, as a work that was made earlier....
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/romy_schneider.htm   (1657 words)

  
 Divas - The Site / Acting Divas / Romy Schneider Biography
Despite the success of the Sissi films, Romy felt increasing dissatisfaction with her image as a saccharine romantic heroine, and in the 1960s turned her back on German cinema to seek more challenging work abroad.
Romy and Biasini married in Berlin on December 18th 1975 and separated in 1981, a year before her death.
Her final years were beset with tragedy and personal trauma, including serious illness, the suicide of her first husband and the accidental death of her son, impaled on the railings of his grandparents' house.
www.divasthesite.com /Acting_Divas/Stories/Bio_Romy_Schneider.htm   (337 words)

  
 Romy Schneider | Biography (1938-1982)
After playing a prostitute in the big-budget war film The Victors (1963), Romy began her largely unrewarding Hollywood career, where she was usually cast on the basis of her ripe figure and cute middle-European accent.
Settling in France in the 1960s, Romy became one of that country's most respected actresses, winning Cesar awards for her performances in L'Important C'est d'Aimer (1975) and L'Histoire Simple (1978).
She was on the road to emotional and professional recovery when, in May of 1982, Romy Schneider was found dead in her Paris apartment; the official cause of death was heart failure, though many believe that she committed suicide.
www.leninimports.com /romy_schneider.html   (280 words)

  
 Romy schneider - ,Movies | Forgotten but not lost,Romy Schneider: Information From Answers.com,romy schneider te koop ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Romy Schneider Romy Schneider aka Romy Schneider-Albach (September 23, 1938 - May 29, 1982) was an Austrian actress.
Op Speurders.nl vind je een romy schneider, tweedehands en nieuw, te koop gevraagd en aangeboden.
Filmography of Romy Schneider as Actor, Music and the films they were in.
bestnetseeker.com /bn/romy-schneider.html   (160 words)

  
 Romy Schneider Movies >> German-Hollywood Connection
Young Cri-Cri (Schneider) leaves Salzburg for the big city (Vienna) and what her horoscope says will be happiness and the love of a soldier.
Romy is a beautiful 18-year-old orphan (Sampolo) on the island of Ischia in the Bay of Naples.
Her fans were upset when Romy departed from her familiar Sissi image to play a shy poet who writes a scandalous bestseller under a pseudonym and ends up marrying her American publisher.
www.germanhollywood.com /romyschneider2.html   (1481 words)

  
 Schneider Romy - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Schneider Romy - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Schneider, Romy (1938-1982), Austrian stage and film actress.
Schneider, Vreni (1964-), Swiss alpine skier, who won three gold medals at the Winter Olympics in 1988 and 1994.
uk.encarta.msn.com /Schneider_Romy.html   (99 words)

  
 La Banquière / La Banquiere / Francis Girod, Romy Schneider / 1980 / film review
Romy Schneider delivers one of her most memorable performances in this lavish period production from director Francis Girod.
The Austrian-born actress who became a star of French cinema in the 1960s was at her peak when she made this film and here she is simply stunning.
The character she plays is a mass of contradictions but somehow Schneider renders the maverick banker Emma believable — formidable, inconsistent yet nearly always sympathetic.
frenchfilms.topcities.com /nf_La_Banquiere.html   (418 words)

  
 Filles Sourires: Project Cinema (11): Romy
"Sissi just sticks to me just like oatmeal", is a famous quote by Romy Schneider.
Born Rosemarie Magdelena Albach-Retty in Vienna, she made her acting debut on stage by the side of her mother (like her father an actor too).
In what I think is her best movie, Les Choses De La Vie (although it's been a while since I saw it, or any movie with Schneider in it for that matter), her melancholic, Hardy-like voice is perfect for La Chanson d'Helene, a duet with Michel Piccoli.
fillessourires.blogspot.com /2006/04/project-cinema-11-romy.html   (312 words)

  
 10:30 P.M. Summer - Jules Dassin, Marguerite Dumas, Melina Mercouri, Romy Schneider, Peter Finch & Julián Mateos - 1966
Mercouri is excellent as an alcoholic who has fallen out of love with her husband (Peter Finch) and tries to find solace by helping a murderer escape from the Spanish police.
I would say it is a typical movie of its time showing a rift in a marriage while the couple travel in a strange country (see the Italian movies of the early sixties).
Romy Schneider looks radiant, this is a couple of years before her breakthrough as a French movie star in the Seventies.
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 Collector' s News by www.collect.at Vintage Collectibles Finds: Romy Schneider and Karlheinz Boehm: 2 Autographs - ...
Romy Schneider and Karlheinz Boehm: 2 Autographs - col8556: "2 old, authentic autographs by Romy Schneider and her partner in Sissi, Karlheinz Boehm on photo postcards.
After the young Romy Schneider fell in love with Alain Delon and eventually moved with him to Paris she started a real international career collaborating with such famous directors as Luchino Visconti and Orson Welles.
Paris Match wrote in 1971: 'Forty years after Greta and Marlene, fifteen years after Marilyn, the screen again has a great star.' The woman who had never had acting lessons had by then already made forty films; by the end of her life it would be 61.
zettl.blogspot.com /2005/09/romy-schneider-and-karlheinz-boehm-2.html   (342 words)

  
 Romy schneider - KRUGERSTARS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Romy Schneider became an international star while still in her teens.
Schneider, Romy (eigentliche Rosemarie Magdalena Albach), * 23.
If you are a Romy Schneider fan you will find a rich catalog of Romy Schneider movies right here.
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 Romy Schneider - Nude Celebrity Movie Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Romy Schneider had everything going for her as an actress.
Born into Germany's premier acting dynasty, this child of film and theater was talented, connected, driven, and to top it off, beautiful in the way of an unattainable ideal.
Romy's regal mien allowed her to specialize in playing royalty onscreen, but she also More...
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 Innocents With Dirty Hands - Movie Review
Claude Chabrol's meditation on infidelity and murder is creepy and cold, wholly owned by Romy Schneider as its near alien starlet.
Dubbed in English, the film has Schneider's gorgeous wife in a loveless marriage to a husky American (Rod Steiger), who is not only free of emotion but impotent as well.
A chance encounter draws her into a love affair with a younger man (François Maistre), and before 20 minutes of screen time are up, Schneider has coldly bludgeoned hubby to death while he sleeps.
www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/innocentswithdirtyhands   (152 words)

  
 Ludwig Review (1972)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Helmut Berger, Trevor Howard, Romy Schneider, Helmut Griem, Silvana Mangano, Gert Frobe, John Moulder-Brown
Luchino Visconti the director of such films as Death in Venice, Ludwig, La Terra Trema, The Leopard, The Damned, and Rocco and His Brothers, has put on screen some of the most memorable images of Italian cinema of all times.
Romy Schneider (Bocaccio 70) livens things up as a Elizabeth, a royal relative bringing a certain uniqueness and elegance to every scene.
www.thespinningimage.co.uk /cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=963   (1145 words)

  
 It probably happened that Romy Schneider has enjoyed reading Mode Magazine . Romy Schneider thought Mode Magazine to be ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Romy Schneider thought Mode Magazine to be an interesting thing to read.
Compared to Romy Schneider everything is likely to appear as something bad.
In fact, surrealist thinkers have tried with little success to correlate the essence of Mode Magazine with the essence of Romy Schneider.
www.bad-bad-bad.com /actors/Acsy12658.htm   (302 words)

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