Romy Schneider

However, no post-mortem was carried out and she was officially declared as having died of cardiac arrest. Her first husband was Anthony Soglio, with whom she was married from 1955 to 1957. 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. It became then known that from 1961 to her death she had been married to Ike Jones, an African-American actor. 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. Inger Stevens committed suicide with an overdose of sleeping pills. Her last film was La Passante du Sans-Souci (The Passerby, 1982). Several roles in major films followed, but she had the greatest success with her leading role in the TV series The Farmer's Daughter, and also with roles in TV episodes of series like The Twilight Zone, Bonanza and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.

Of her other films, the macabre Le trio infernal (1974) with Michel Piccoli is worth mentioning. Later she made commercials, smaller plays and TV appearances, until she finally got her big chance in the movie Man on Fire, with Bing Crosby. Even after the breakup of their relationship, Schneider continued starring in films with Alain Delon (La Piscine -- The Swimming Pool -- of 1969). At the same time she took lessons at the Actor's Studio. July 14, 1977), an actress, startlingly resembles her mother and has been a target of German tabloids for quite some time. Inger then moved with her father to the United States. At 16 she left home and started to work in New York as a showgirl in cheap performances. Her daughter by her second marriage, Sarah Magdalena Biasini (b. Her parents divorced while living in Sweden.

In 1975 she married Daniel Biasini, her private secretary; they separated in 1981. She was an insecure and often ill woman. They had a son, David-Christopher (1966 - 1981). Stevens, whose real name was Inger Stensland, was to become a famous star, but her life was too short. Dumped by Delon in 1963, she married (1966) and divorced (1975) Harry Meyen (1924 - 1979), a German actor who committed suicide. She was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 18, 1934 and died in Los Angeles, California, on April 30, 1970. Schneider's private life was rather quite turbulent. Inger Stevens was an American movie and TV actress.

"Sissi sticks to me just like oatmeal," she once said. Man on Fire (1957). 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). Cry Terror (1958). 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. The Buccaneer (1958). 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). World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959).

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). The New Interns (1964). Interestingly, this Austrian movie is about the early years of Queen Victoria, in particular her first encounter with Prince Albert. A Guide For the Married Man (1967). In the film Mädchenjahre einer Königin (Ernst Marischka, 1954) Romy Schneider for the first time portrayed a royal. A Time For Killing (1967). 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. Firecreek (1968).

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. Madigan (1968). 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. Hang 'em High (1968). Romy Schneider-Albach (September 23, 1938 - May 29, 1982) was an Austrian actress. 5 Card Stud (1968). Romy Schneider a.k.a. House of Cards (1968).

Dream of Kings (1969).