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.
Marisa Mell: Austrian actress, born Marlies Theres Moitzi in Gratz, in 1939
Susan Denberg: born Dietlinde Ortrun Zechner 1944 in Poland, Austrian-educated model and actress, Playboy Playmate August 1966.
Jocelyn Lane: born 1937 in Vienna, brought up in New York, modeled in British pin-up mags as ‘Jackie Lane’, in Hollywood from 1964 as Jocelyn Lane ~ more on Beach Party Movies WordPress and Tumblr.
