Romy Schneider

However, no post-mortem was carried out and she was officially declared as having died of cardiac arrest. Connie Stevens has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6249 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, and she has a star on the Star Walk in Palm Springs. 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 has also made nightclub appearances and headlined in major Las Vegas showrooms. 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. In 1994, she issued her first recording in several years, Tradition: A Family at Christmas, along with her two daughters. Her last film was La Passante du Sans-Souci (The Passerby, 1982). Stevens developed her own cosmetic skin care product line, Forever Spring, and in the 1990s opened the Connie Stevens Garden Sanctuary Day Spa in Los Angeles.

Of her other films, the macabre Le trio infernal (1974) with Michel Piccoli is worth mentioning. In 1991, Stevens received the Lady of Humanities Award from Shriners Hospital and the Humanitarian of the Year Award by the Sons of Italy in Washington, DC. Even after the breakup of their relationship, Schneider continued starring in films with Alain Delon (La Piscine -- The Swimming Pool -- of 1969). Among her charitable works, she founded the Windfeather project to award scholarships to Native American Indians. July 14, 1977), an actress, startlingly resembles her mother and has been a target of German tabloids for quite some time. In the 1970s, Stevens started singing the Ace Is The Place theme song on Ace Hardware TV commercials in Southern California, was a guest on the Dean Martin Celebrity Roast a few times, had a regular role on the 1986 TV series Rowdies and appeared numerous times on the Bob Hope USO specials, including his Christmas Show from the Persian Gulf (1988). Her daughter by her second marriage, Sarah Magdalena Biasini (b. She is the mother of actress Joely Fisher and actress Tricia Leigh Fisher.

In 1975 she married Daniel Biasini, her private secretary; they separated in 1981. Connie Stevens has had two husbands, actor James Stacy (married 1963-divorced 1967) and singer Eddie Fisher (married 1967-divorced 1969). They had a son, David-Christopher (1966 - 1981). She also worked in summer stock, and she starred in the Broadway production of Neil Simon's Star Spangled Girl with Tony Perkins. Dumped by Delon in 1963, she married (1966) and divorced (1975) Harry Meyen (1924 - 1979), a German actor who committed suicide. were patched up long enough, however, for her to star as Wendy Conway in the TV sitcom Wendy And Me (1964)-(1965) with George Burns, who also produced the show. Schneider's private life was rather quite turbulent. The differences between her and Warner Bros.

"Sissi sticks to me just like oatmeal," she once said. musical My Fair Lady. 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). She was also angered over being denied a chance to audition for the lead in the upcoming Warner Bros. 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. Stevens felt she should be given a raise in 1962, and during the dispute with the studio she was placed on suspension. 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). Songwriter, and Now That You've Gone.

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). Other releases were Why'd You Wanna Make Me Cry?, Mr. Interestingly, this Austrian movie is about the early years of Queen Victoria, in particular her first encounter with Prince Albert. She also recorded the number 1 hit single Sixteen Reasons (1961). In the film Mädchenjahre einer Königin (Ernst Marischka, 1954) Romy Schneider for the first time portrayed a royal. hit TV series 77 Sunset Strip, she recorded the hit novelty song Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb, a duet with one of the shows stars, Edd Burns. 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 making several appearances on the Warner Bros.