During a thunderstorm, a married couple, Maria and Paul, and their friend Claire (Romy Schneider) take refuge in a small hotel. Schneider has a difficult role as Paul’s lover and his wife’s friend, but the chemistry isn’t there between the trio to engage us on any meaningful level. Urban Cinefile
Romy Schneider (1938 – 1982) in Robinson soll nicht sterben (TV 1963).
Barbara Valentin (born Uschi Ledersteger 1940, Vienna Austria; died 2002, Munich Germany), film actress in sexpot roles in the 1960s, then character parts with director Rainer Werner Fassbinder; AIDS activist and companion of Freddie Mercury until his death AIDS in 1991.
The story, based on real-life events, was first filmed by Rolf Thiele in 1958 (released in the U.S. as “Rosemary”), with Nadja Tiller as the Frankfurt femme whose love of fast cars and money led her to bed the great and the good before being murdered in 1957 in her apartment by a never-found assailant. Thiele’s hit B&W movie, made when the real subject’s body was still almost warm, had a socially satirical edge. Variety
Nadja Tiller: Austrian actress, born 1929, on screen for sixty years, 1949 – 2009.
Marisa Mell: Austrian actress, born Marlies Theres Moitzi in Gratz, in 1939; died from cancer in Vienna, in 1992.
Maria Perschy (1938 – 2014): Isolde ‘Easy’ Mueller in Man’s Favorite Sport? (1964), Marie in The Castle of Fu Manchu (1969), Maria Schuller in General Hospital (TV 1977).
Romy Schneider: Austrian actress born Rosemarie Magdalena Albach 23 September 1938, Vienna Austria; died: 29 May 1982, age 43, Paris France; cardiac arrest.
Schneider, the daughter of a German actress, began her career at age 15 in 1953, becoming a star in Europe after portraying the Empress Sissi in 1956 and 1957. Although appearing briefly in Hollywood in the mid-sixties, she worked mostly in France.
Years of heavy smoking, excessive alcohol consumption and drug use – especially after the accidental death of her only son in 1981 – affected her kidney and heart and she died of heart failure in her Paris apartment.
Marisa Mell: Austrian actress, born Marlies Theres Moitzi in Gratz, in 1939; died from cancer in Vienna, in 1992.
Marisa Mell: Austrian actress, born Marlies Theres Moitzi in Gratz, in 1939; died from cancer in Vienna, in 1992.
