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Maria Schell
Age: 79 (passed away Apr. 26th, 2005)
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Birth Place: Vienna, Austria
Born: Jan. 15th, 1926
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BIOGRAPHY: Maria Schell studied in a religious institution in Colmar (Haut-Rhin, France). She received a dramatic training in Zurich, Switzerland. To pay her studies she was a secretary there. Besides being a film star; Maria appeared in plays in Zurich, Basel, in Vienna (Josefstad Theater), Berlin, Munich (Kammerspiel Theater), at the Salzburg Festival and went on provincial tours from 1963. Among the plays she performed there were such classics as Shakespeare's "Hamlet", Goethe's "Faust" and such modern classics as "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw.
TRIVIA:
- Became one of the first movie idols to the postwar generation in the German speaking countries with her distinctive "smile under tears".
- Her brother 'Maximilian Schell' (qv) made a movie about her in 2002 called _Meine Schwester Maria (2002)_ (qv), which means "my sister Maria".
- Sister of 'Immy Schell' (qv), 'Maximilian Schell' (qv) and 'Carl Schell' (qv).
- Mother of Oliver Hächler (b. 1962, now known as 'Oliver Schell' (qv), with 'Horst Hächler' (qv)) and actress 'Marie-Theres Relin' (qv) (b. 30 June 1966, with 'Veit Relin' (qv)).
- Her family had to escape from the german Nazi regime in 1938
- Daughter of writer Ferdinand Hermann Schell and actress 'Margarete Schell Noé' (qv).
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