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Schneider was born '''Marie Christine Gélin''', the daughter of French actor [[Daniel Gélin]], and Romanian-born Marie-Christine Schneider, who ran a bookstore in Paris.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10A1FFA3C5C1A7A93C6A91789D85F478785F9|work=[[The New York Times]]|title=Maria Says Her 'Tango' Is Not; Movies | date=4 February 1973|accessdate=12 May 2010|first=Judy|last=Klemesrud}}</ref> She met her father only three times and took her mother's last name. In 1974, Schneider [[coming out|came out]] as [[bisexual]].<ref name="hadleigh">{{citation |title=The Lavender Screen: The Gay and Lesbian Films |first=Boze |last=Hadleigh |authorlink=Boze Hadleigh |year=2001 |publisher=Citadel Press |isbn=0806521996 |page=81}}</ref><ref name="abrams">{{citation |title=America Transformed: Sixty Years of Revolutionary Change, 1941–2001 |first=Richard M. |last=Abrams |year=2006 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=0521862469 |pages=165–6}}</ref> In early 1976, she abandoned the film set of ''[[Caligula (film)|Caligula]]'' and checked herself into a [[mental hospital]] in Rome for several days to be with her lover, photographer Joan Townsend.<ref>{{cite news |title=Interview with Maria Schneider |first=Roger |last=Ebert |authorlink=Roger Ebert|date=14 September 1975|accessdate=21 April 2007|url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19750914/PEOPLE/509140301 |work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]}}</ref> <ref name="alt4">[http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/maria-schneider-memoirs-of-a-french-whore-a-woman-like-eve/ Maria Schneider Pt. 3: Memoirs of a French Whore, A Woman Like Eve] ''Alt Film Guide'', 3 February 2011.</ref>This, coupled with her refusal to do nudity, led to Schneider's dismissal and she was replaced by [[Teresa Ann Savoy]].
Schneider was born '''Marie Christine Gélin''', the daughter of French actor [[Daniel Gélin]], and Romanian-born Marie-Christine Schneider, who ran a bookstore in Paris.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10A1FFA3C5C1A7A93C6A91789D85F478785F9|work=[[The New York Times]]|title=Maria Says Her 'Tango' Is Not; Movies | date=4 February 1973|accessdate=12 May 2010|first=Judy|last=Klemesrud}}</ref> She met her father only three times and took her mother's last name. In 1974, Schneider [[coming out|came out]] as [[bisexual]].<ref name="hadleigh">{{citation |title=The Lavender Screen: The Gay and Lesbian Films |first=Boze |last=Hadleigh |authorlink=Boze Hadleigh |year=2001 |publisher=Citadel Press |isbn=0806521996 |page=81}}</ref><ref name="abrams">{{citation |title=America Transformed: Sixty Years of Revolutionary Change, 1941–2001 |first=Richard M. |last=Abrams |year=2006 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=0521862469 |pages=165–6}}</ref> In early 1976, she abandoned the film set of ''[[Caligula (film)|Caligula]]'' and checked herself into a [[mental hospital]] in Rome for several days to be with her lover, photographer Joan Townsend.<ref>{{cite news |title=Interview with Maria Schneider |first=Roger |last=Ebert |authorlink=Roger Ebert|date=14 September 1975|accessdate=21 April 2007|url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19750914/PEOPLE/509140301 |work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]}}</ref> <ref name="alt4">[http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/maria-schneider-memoirs-of-a-french-whore-a-woman-like-eve/ Maria Schneider Pt. 3: Memoirs of a French Whore, A Woman Like Eve] ''Alt Film Guide'', 3 February 2011.</ref>This, coupled with her refusal to do nudity, led to Schneider's dismissal and she was replaced by [[Teresa Ann Savoy]].


The 1970s were turbulent years for Schneider, marked by [[drug addiction]], [[drug overdoses|overdoses]], and a [[suicide]] attempt. Schneider said that she dislike the instant fame accorded to her from "Last Tango in Paris" and suffered abuse .
The 1970s were turbulent years for Schneider, marked by [[drug addiction]], [[drug overdoses|overdoses]], and a [[suicide]] attempt. Schneider said that she disliked the instant fame accorded to her from "Last Tango in Paris" and suffered abuse. She started taking drugs.
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"I was rock’n roll". About drugs, we did not know at the time, it was so dangerous. There was an ideal, to change society, and especially a thirst for novelty. Young people today do not take drugs at all in the same way. They are all paranoid, violent. But we have AIDS and unemployment. Drugs have become a matter of money. I have lost seven years of my life and I regret it bitterly. First, an image that sticks with you in relation to people who want to work with you. Fortunately, I have not deviated to alcohol or pills. I am one of the few who has been (an addict) and so far who is still alive. Nico, unfortunately, has not, she was suicidal. It all depends on the love we have of life, or not. Basically, I liked life and I'm out, but not alone. I started using drugs when I became famous. I did not like the celebrity, and especially the image full of innuendo, naughty, that people had of me after Last Tango. In addition, I had no family behind me, who protect you. I had no bodyguard like Sharon Stone, and so I was very exposed. I suffered abuse. People who come up to tell you unpleasant things on planes. I was tracked down, and I felt hounded. And then, we must put things into perspective. I adopted what Mastroianni said: "I am a craftsman." This is really what is best for me. I did not paint, but I paint with myself. Giving emotions to people is a pleasure. The money, fame, power, all that, it is better for protection. It takes years to understand, and it's called maturity. <ref>"Moira Sullivan,"Maria Schneider: Forget Last Tango",[http://www.jeanmoi.blogspot.com/2011/02/maria-schneider-forget-last-tango.html]</ref><ref>"Jackie Buet, Elizabeth Jenny, Créteil Films de Femmes, 2001, "Autoportrait: Maria Schneider">[http://www.filmsdefemmes.com/Maria-Schneider-Belle-et-rebelle.html]</ref>
"I was rock’n roll". About drugs, we did not know at the time, it was so dangerous. There was an ideal, to change society, and especially a thirst for novelty. Young people today do not take drugs at all in the same way. They are all paranoid, violent. But we have AIDS and unemployment. Drugs have become a matter of money. I have lost seven years of my life and I regret it bitterly. First, an image that sticks with you in relation to people who want to work with you. Fortunately, I have not deviated to alcohol or pills. I am one of the few who has been (an addict) and so far who is still alive. [|Nico]], unfortunately, has not, she was suicidal. It all depends on the love we have of life, or not. Basically, I liked life and I'm out, but not alone. I started using drugs when I became famous. I did not like the celebrity, and especially the image full of innuendo, naughty, that people had of me after Last Tango. In addition, I had no family behind me, who protect you. I had no bodyguard like Sharon Stone, and so I was very exposed. I suffered abuse. People who come up to tell you unpleasant things on planes. I was tracked down, and I felt hounded. And then, we must put things into perspective. I adopted what [[Mastro Mastroianni]] said: "I am a craftsman." This is really what is best for me. I did not paint, but I paint with myself. Giving emotions to people is a pleasure. The money, fame, power, all that, it is better for protection. It takes years to understand, and it's called maturity. <ref> Moira Sullivan,"Maria Schneider: Forget Last Tango",[http://www.jeanmoi.blogspot.com/2011/02/maria-schneider-forget-last-tango.html]</ref><ref>Jackie Buet, Elizabeth Jenny, Créteil Films de Femmes, 2001, "Autoportrait: Maria Schneider Belle et Rebelle">[http://www.filmsdefemmes.com/Maria-Schneider-Belle-et-rebelle.html]</ref>
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Maria Schneider died on 3 February 2011 from cancer at age 58.<ref name="mailfeb3">{{cite news|title=Last Tango In Paris star Maria Schneider dies at 58|url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1353317/Last-Tango-Paris-star-Maria-Schneider-dies-58.html|newspaper=[[Daily Mail]]|date=3 February 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Fallece Maria Schneider, actriz de 'El último tango en París'|url=http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/949290/0/maria/schneider/tango/|accessdate=4 February 2011|newspaper=20minutos.es|date=4 February 2011}}</ref><ref name="Maria Schneider obituary">[http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/feb/03/maria-schneider-obituary?INTCMP=SRCH Maria Schneider obituary] ''[[The Guardian]]'', 3 February 2011.</ref><ref name="Maria Schneider obituary"/><ref>[http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/maria-schneider-dies-last-tango-in-paris-the-passenger/ Maria Schneider Dies: Last Tango In Paris, The Passenger] ''Alt Film Guide'', 3 February 2011.</ref><ref>"Moira Sullivan, "A Tribute to Maria Schneider"[http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2011/feature-articles/a-tribute-to-maria-schneider/A Tribute to Maria Schneider] ''[[Senses of Cinema]]'', 14 March 2011.</ref>
Maria Schneider died on 3 February 2011 from cancer at age 58.<ref name="mailfeb3">{{cite news|title=Last Tango In Paris star Maria Schneider dies at 58|url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1353317/Last-Tango-Paris-star-Maria-Schneider-dies-58.html|newspaper=[[Daily Mail]]|date=3 February 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Fallece Maria Schneider, actriz de 'El último tango en París'|url=http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/949290/0/maria/schneider/tango/|accessdate=4 February 2011|newspaper=20minutos.es|date=4 February 2011}}</ref><ref name="Maria Schneider obituary">[http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/feb/03/maria-schneider-obituary?INTCMP=SRCH Maria Schneider obituary] ''[[The Guardian]]'', 3 February 2011.</ref><ref name="Maria Schneider obituary"/><ref>[http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/maria-schneider-dies-last-tango-in-paris-the-passenger/ Maria Schneider Dies: Last Tango In Paris, The Passenger] ''Alt Film Guide'', 3 February 2011.</ref><ref> Moira Sullivan, "A Tribute to Maria Schneider"[http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2011/feature-articles/a-tribute-to-maria-schneider/A Tribute to Maria Schneider] ''[[Senses of Cinema]]'', 14 March 2011.</ref>


Remembering her, Bertolucci said, "Her death came too soon, before I could hold her again tenderly, and tell her that I felt connected to her as on the first day, and for once, to ask her to forgive me."<ref>[http://www.repubblica.it/spettacoli-e-cultura/2011/02/03/news/maria_schneider-12014661/ Prigioniera di quell'"Ultimo tango"—Addio a Maria Schneider] ''[[La Repubblica]]'', 3 February 2011.</ref> "Maria accused me of having robbed her of her youth and only today am I wondering whether there wasn't some truth to that," he added.<ref>[http://www.france24.com/en/20110203-bertolucci-wanted-say-sorry-last-tango-paris Bertolucci wanted to say sorry for 'Last Tango in Paris'] ''[[France 24]]'', 3 February 2011.</ref><ref>[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-02-06/maria-schneider-dies-remembering-the-star-of-last-tango-in-paris/ Remembering Maria Schneider] ''The Daily Beast'', 2011-02-06.</ref>
Remembering her, Bertolucci said, "Her death came too soon, before I could hold her again tenderly, and tell her that I felt connected to her as on the first day, and for once, to ask her to forgive me."<ref>[http://www.repubblica.it/spettacoli-e-cultura/2011/02/03/news/maria_schneider-12014661/ Prigioniera di quell'"Ultimo tango"—Addio a Maria Schneider] ''[[La Repubblica]]'', 3 February 2011.</ref> "Maria accused me of having robbed her of her youth and only today am I wondering whether there wasn't some truth to that," he added.<ref>[http://www.france24.com/en/20110203-bertolucci-wanted-say-sorry-last-tango-paris Bertolucci wanted to say sorry for 'Last Tango in Paris'] ''[[France 24]]'', 3 February 2011.</ref><ref>[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-02-06/maria-schneider-dies-remembering-the-star-of-last-tango-in-paris/ Remembering Maria Schneider] ''The Daily Beast'', 2011-02-06.</ref>

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Maria Schneider
Born
Marie Christine Gélin

(1952-03-27)27 March 1952
Paris, France
Died3 February 2011(2011-02-03) (aged 58)
Paris, France
Cause of deathCancer
NationalityFrench
OccupationActress
Years active1969–2008
PartnerPia
Parent(s)Daniel Gélin (deceased)
Marie-Christine Schneider

Maria Schneider (27 March 1952– 3 February 2011) was a French actress. She was best known for playing Jeanne, opposite Marlon Brando, in the 1972 film, Last Tango in Paris.

Career

Schneider performed several nude scenes in Last Tango in Paris, which was controversial at the time. In an interview in 2007,[2] Schneider described Last Tango in Paris director Bernardo Bertolucci: "He was fat and sweaty and very manipulative, both of Marlon and myself, and would do certain things to get a reaction from me." As for her working relationship with Brando, she said that, while their relationship on the set was paternal, it was Brando who came up with the "butter scene" and it was not known to her until just before filming it:

"I should have called my agent or had my lawyer come to the set because you can't force someone to do something that isn't in the script, but at the time, I didn't know that. Marlon said to me: 'Maria, don't worry, it's just a movie,' but during the scene, even though what Marlon was doing wasn't real, I was crying real tears. I felt humiliated and to be honest, I felt a little raped, both by Marlon and by Bertolucci. After the scene, Marlon didn't console me or apologise. Thankfully, there was just one take."[2]

"Last Tango ... first major role. In fact, it's a total coincidence. I was friends with Dominique Sanda. She would make the film with Jean-Louis Trintignant, but she was pregnant. She had a large picture with her of both of us. Bertolucci saw it. He made me do a casting. I read the script, I did not immediately understand. I did not really want to do it and everyone told me: "C'mon, with Brando! ..." I resisted until the last moment, because I had to make a film by Valerio Zurlini, with Delon, called The Professor, with the dancer Sonia Petrovna. I regretted my choice since the beginning of my career would have been sweeter, quieter. For Tango, I was not prepared. People have identified with a character that was not me. Butter, about saucy old pigs ... I think it's a film that has aged, style, form and speech. It's a film typical of the '70s, dated, unlike the films of Antonioni, Rossellini, that do not wrinkle. Bertolucci's very smart, he followed the fashions. Even Marlon with his charisma and class, felt a bit violated, exploited a little in this film. He rejected it for years. And me, I felt it doubly. Marlon was extraordinary, sympathetic with the technicians and generous. Bertolucci, who was a Communist, had the people with him and was working fifteen hours a day. Marlon said: "There they are - sandwiches for everyone," the Hollywood superstar that he was. There was a chemistry between us, a complicity. With other actors, the film would have been very different".

[3][4]

Schneider and Brando remained friends until his death, although they did not speak of the movie "for a while." She also said that her experience with the film – and her treatment as a sex symbol rather than as a serious actress – motivated her never to do films with nude scenes again. Schneider also appeared in films such as Antonioni's The Passenger and Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre.

Maria Schneider worked in over 50 films and television productions between 1969 and 2008.

Schneider was awarded the medal of Chevalier, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for her contributions to the arts on 1 July 2010 by Minister of Culture and Communication, Frédéric Mitterrand, who was her fellow actor in Jacques Rivette's film, Merry-Go-Round. Brigitte Bardot wrote a moving tribute to her work that was read at the ceremony. [5]

Personal life

Schneider was born Marie Christine Gélin, the daughter of French actor Daniel Gélin, and Romanian-born Marie-Christine Schneider, who ran a bookstore in Paris.[6] She met her father only three times and took her mother's last name. In 1974, Schneider came out as bisexual.[7][8] In early 1976, she abandoned the film set of Caligula and checked herself into a mental hospital in Rome for several days to be with her lover, photographer Joan Townsend.[9] [10]This, coupled with her refusal to do nudity, led to Schneider's dismissal and she was replaced by Teresa Ann Savoy.

The 1970s were turbulent years for Schneider, marked by drug addiction, overdoses, and a suicide attempt. Schneider said that she disliked the instant fame accorded to her from "Last Tango in Paris" and suffered abuse. She started taking drugs.

"I was rock’n roll". About drugs, we did not know at the time, it was so dangerous. There was an ideal, to change society, and especially a thirst for novelty. Young people today do not take drugs at all in the same way. They are all paranoid, violent. But we have AIDS and unemployment. Drugs have become a matter of money. I have lost seven years of my life and I regret it bitterly. First, an image that sticks with you in relation to people who want to work with you. Fortunately, I have not deviated to alcohol or pills. I am one of the few who has been (an addict) and so far who is still alive. [|Nico]], unfortunately, has not, she was suicidal. It all depends on the love we have of life, or not. Basically, I liked life and I'm out, but not alone. I started using drugs when I became famous. I did not like the celebrity, and especially the image full of innuendo, naughty, that people had of me after Last Tango. In addition, I had no family behind me, who protect you. I had no bodyguard like Sharon Stone, and so I was very exposed. I suffered abuse. People who come up to tell you unpleasant things on planes. I was tracked down, and I felt hounded. And then, we must put things into perspective. I adopted what Mastro Mastroianni said: "I am a craftsman." This is really what is best for me. I did not paint, but I paint with myself. Giving emotions to people is a pleasure. The money, fame, power, all that, it is better for protection. It takes years to understand, and it's called maturity. [11][12]

By the 1980s, however, she had turned her life around.

"I was very lucky – I lost many friends to drugs – but I met someone in 1980 who helped me stop. I call this person my angel and we've been together ever since. I don't say if it's a man or a woman. That's my secret garden. I like to keep it a mystery."[2]

Maria Schneider died on 3 February 2011 from cancer at age 58.[13][14][15][15][16][17]

Remembering her, Bertolucci said, "Her death came too soon, before I could hold her again tenderly, and tell her that I felt connected to her as on the first day, and for once, to ask her to forgive me."[18] "Maria accused me of having robbed her of her youth and only today am I wondering whether there wasn't some truth to that," he added.[19][20]

Maria Schneider's funeral was held on 10 February 2011 at Église Saint-Roch, Paris, attended by actors, directors and producers in French cinema such as Dominique Besnehard, Bertrand Blier, Christine Boisson, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon, Andréa Ferreol, Claudia Cardinale, as well as her surviving partner, Pia, half-siblings Fiona and Manuel Gélin, and her uncle, Georges Schneider. Delon read out a letter from Brigitte Bardot, who took care of the teenaged Schneider and helped her begin her career in cinema. Schneider was cremated afterwards at Père Lachaise crematorium, and her ashes were later to be scattered at sea at the foot of the Rock of the Virgin in Biarritz, according to her last wishes.[21][22][23][24]

Filmography

References

  1. ^ Maria Schneider dies at 58; actress in 'Last Tango in Paris' Los Angeles Times, 2011-02-04. "The daughter of French actor Daniel Gélin and a Romanian mother, Schneider was born in Paris on March 27, 1952, and grew up with her mother near the French border with Germany."
  2. ^ a b c Das, Lina (19 July 2007). "I felt raped by Brando". Daily Mail. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
  3. ^ Moira Sullivan, "Maria Schneider: Forget Last Tango"[1]
  4. ^ Jackie Buet, Elizabeth Jenny, Créteil Films de Femmes, 2001, "Autoportrait: Maria Schneider: Belle et Rebelle"[2]
  5. ^ Moira Sullivan,"Tribute to Arthouse Actress Maria Schneider"[3]
  6. ^ Klemesrud, Judy (4 February 1973). "Maria Says Her 'Tango' Is Not; Movies". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 May 2010.
  7. ^ Hadleigh, Boze (2001), The Lavender Screen: The Gay and Lesbian Films, Citadel Press, p. 81, ISBN 0806521996
  8. ^ Abrams, Richard M. (2006), America Transformed: Sixty Years of Revolutionary Change, 1941–2001, Cambridge University Press, pp. 165–6, ISBN 0521862469
  9. ^ Ebert, Roger (14 September 1975). "Interview with Maria Schneider". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 21 April 2007.
  10. ^ Maria Schneider Pt. 3: Memoirs of a French Whore, A Woman Like Eve Alt Film Guide, 3 February 2011.
  11. ^ Moira Sullivan,"Maria Schneider: Forget Last Tango",[4]
  12. ^ Jackie Buet, Elizabeth Jenny, Créteil Films de Femmes, 2001, "Autoportrait: Maria Schneider Belle et Rebelle">[5]
  13. ^ "Last Tango In Paris star Maria Schneider dies at 58". Daily Mail. 3 February 2011.
  14. ^ "Fallece Maria Schneider, actriz de 'El último tango en París'". 20minutos.es. 4 February 2011. Retrieved 4 February 2011.
  15. ^ a b Maria Schneider obituary The Guardian, 3 February 2011.
  16. ^ Maria Schneider Dies: Last Tango In Paris, The Passenger Alt Film Guide, 3 February 2011.
  17. ^ Moira Sullivan, "A Tribute to Maria Schneider"Tribute to Maria Schneider Senses of Cinema, 14 March 2011.
  18. ^ Prigioniera di quell'"Ultimo tango"—Addio a Maria Schneider La Repubblica, 3 February 2011.
  19. ^ Bertolucci wanted to say sorry for 'Last Tango in Paris' France 24, 3 February 2011.
  20. ^ Remembering Maria Schneider The Daily Beast, 2011-02-06.
  21. ^ Mort de Maria Schneider : Son dernier adieu Pure People, 2011-025-07.
  22. ^ Obsèques de Maria Schneider : L'hommage de Brigitte Bardot et Alain Delon Pure People 2011-02-10.
  23. ^ María Schneider; sin tangos pero con emoción en París Prensa Latina 2011-02-10.
  24. ^ Regardez l’adieu bouleversant à l’actrice disparue Gala Magazine 2011-02-10.

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