Maria Schell was a celebrated actress, a crowd pleaser and next to Romy Schneider, Marlene Dietrich and Hildegard Knef the only German-speaking actress who has made a great world career. In more than seventy films she was directed by top directors and starred alongside countless stars. Her life is filled with amours, affairs, loneliness, spurned love, disappointments, debts, depression, the inability to age and a suicide attempt.
Maria Schell was a celebrated actress, a crowd pleaser and next to Romy Schneider, Marlene Dietrich and Hildegard Knef the only German-speaking actress who has made a great world career. In more than seventy films she was directed by top directors and starred alongside countless stars. Her life is filled with amours, affairs, loneliness, spurned love, disappointments, debts, depression, the inability to age and a suicide attempt.