Ann Richards

. However, no post-mortem was carried out and she was officially declared as having died of cardiac arrest. In the 2004 presidential election, Richards endorsed Governor Howard Dean for the Democratic nomination, campaigning on Dean's behalf. When she was found dead in her apartment in Paris, France in 1982, aged only 43, rumour had it that she had committed suicide by taking a lethal cocktail of alcohol and sleeping pills. She talks frequently about this experience, advocating a healthier lifestyle for women at risk of the disease. A heavy smoker all her life, Schneider also took to drinking in her later years, especially after the sudden death, on July 5, 1981, of her son, who was found impaled on a fence at his stepfather's parents' house, which he was apparently attempting to climb. She changed her diet and lifestyle, which has stabilized her bone density. Her last film was La Passante du Sans-Souci (The Passerby, 1982).

She was diagnosed with osteoporosis in 1996, having lost 3/4 inch in height and broken her hand and ankle. Of her other films, the macabre Le trio infernal (1974) with Michel Piccoli is worth mentioning. She was a popular governor, but was unexpectedly defeated in 1994 by George W. Bush. Even after the breakup of their relationship, Schneider continued starring in films with Alain Delon (La Piscine -- The Swimming Pool -- of 1969). Bush], he can't help it...He was born with a silver foot in his mouth." In 1990, she ran for Governor of Texas, and won election on November 6, 1990. July 14, 1977), an actress, startlingly resembles her mother and has been a target of German tabloids for quite some time. Richards delivered the keynote address to the 1988 Democratic National Convention, a move which put her in the national spotlight with the line "Poor George [H.W. Her daughter by her second marriage, Sarah Magdalena Biasini (b.

In 1986, she was re-elected without opposition. In 1975 she married Daniel Biasini, her private secretary; they separated in 1981. She then was elected State Treasurer in 1982, becoming the first woman elected to statewide office in more than fifty years. They had a son, David-Christopher (1966 - 1981). In 1976, Richards was elected to Travis County, Texas Commissioner Court, where she served for six years. Dumped by Delon in 1963, she married (1966) and divorced (1975) Harry Meyen (1924 - 1979), a German actor who committed suicide. During this time, she had two daughters and two sons. Schneider's private life was rather quite turbulent.

After graduation, she taught social studies and history at Fulmore Junior High School in Austin, Texas. "Sissi sticks to me just like oatmeal," she once said. She received a bachelor's degree from Baylor University, and a teaching certificate from the University of Texas. This meant the beginning of her international film career, which also brought her to Hollywood (Good Neighbor Sam, a 1964 comedy with Jack Lemmon, and the 1965 movie What's New, Pussycat with Woody Allen). Mainly, however, she stayed in France, working with film directors such as Orson Welles (Le Procès of 1963, based upon Franz Kafka's The Trial) and Luchino Visconti (Ludwig, a 1972 film about the life of King Ludwig II of Bavaria in which she played a much maturer Elisabeth of Austria again). Richards was born Dorothy Ann Willis in Lakeview, Texas. She grew up in Waco, Texas, and graduated from Waco High School in 1950, marrying her high school sweetheart, David Richards. It was during the filming of Christine that she fell in love with French actor Alain Delon, who co-starred in the movie. Schneider became engaged to him in 1959, and the couple moved to Paris. Bush, current President of the United States. Fed up with the saccharine image these movies had bestowed upon her, Schneider leapt at the chance of starring in the much more sombre Christine (1958), a remake of Max Ophüls's 1933 film Liebelei (which itself is based upon a play by Arthur Schnitzler).

She served as Governor of Texas from 1991 to 1995, when she was defeated by George W. Her breakthrough, however, came with her portrayal of Princess Elisabeth of Bavaria -- then to become Empress Elisabeth of Austria -- in the romantic biopic Sissi (1955) and its two sequels (1956 and 1957). She rose to nationwide fame as the keynote speaker at the 1988 Democratic National Convention leading up to the 1988 presidential election. Interestingly, this Austrian movie is about the early years of Queen Victoria, in particular her first encounter with Prince Albert. Ann Willis Richards (born September 1, 1933) is an American politician from Texas. In the film Mädchenjahre einer Königin (Ernst Marischka, 1954) Romy Schneider for the first time portrayed a royal. Young Romy's career was also overseen by her stepfather, Hans-Herbert Blatzheim, a noted restaurateur, who Schneider indicated had an unhealthy interest in her.

After her divorce in 1945, Magda Schneider took care of Romy and eventually also supervised her career, often appearing alongside her daughter, who had made her film debut already in 1953, aged 15. She was born Rosemarie Magdalena Albach-Retty 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. Romy Schneider-Albach (September 23, 1938 - May 29, 1982) was an Austrian actress. Romy Schneider a.k.a.