Last Tango in Paris

‘Last Tango in Paris’ Star Maria Schneider Dies

Maria Schneider, the French actress whose sex scenes with Marlon Brando in “Last Tango in Paris” set a new standard for explicitness onscreen, died on Thursday in Paris. She was 58.

A spokesman for her agency, Act 1, said that she had died after a long illness but provided no other details.

The baby-faced Ms. Schneider was only 19 when the Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci chose her above a hundred other actresses for the role of the free-spirited, mysterious Jeanne in “Last Tango” because, he once said, she seemed “like a Lolita, but more perverse.” ( Read Last Tango in Paris more... )

'Last Tango In Paris' Actress Maria Schneider Dies At 58

This week hasn't been an easy one on the movies community. Just days after we lost acclaimed composer John Barry comes word that another legend has died, French actress Maria Schneider.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Schneider passed away in Paris on Thursday following a lengthy illness. Further details aren't currently available. She was 58 when she died.

Schneider, the daughter of actor Daniel Gelin, enjoyed a film career that touched upon more than two dozen movies, most of which were in French. But it was Schneider's turn as a 19-year-old actress opposite "The Godfather" and "On The Waterfront" icon Marlon Brando in "Last Tango in Paris" that she's best remembered for. ( Read Last Tango in Paris more... )

Last Tango in Paris Actress Maria Schneider Dies at 58

Maria Schneider, who shot to international fame with Bernardo Bertolucci's 1972 film Last Tango in Paris, has died after a long bout with cancer, her family told AFP. She was 58. ( Read Last Tango in Paris more... )

'Last Tango in Paris,' with Maria Schneider, landed director Bertolucci obscenity conviction in 1972

The term "controversial" only begins to capture the response the film "Last Tango In Paris" evoked when it was released in the fall of 1972.

A lot of films are controversial.

Very few trigger such a firestorm that their director is sentenced to four months in prison. Very few trigger bomb threats to theaters, angry crowds of picketers and the agreement by both conservative commentators and the National Organization for Women that they are either insidious or just plain pornographic. ( Read Last Tango in Paris more... )

Bertolucci wanted to say sorry for 'Last Tango in Paris'

ROME — Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci said Thursday he wished he could have apologised to the late Maria Schneider for putting her through graphic sex scenes in his classic 1972 film "Last Tango in Paris".

"Her death has come too early, before I could give her a tender embrace and tell her that I was as tied to her as I was at the start and apologise to her at least once," Bertolucci was quoted by the ANSA news agency as saying.

"The strong and creative relationship that we had during the filming of 'Last Tango' became poisoned with the passing of time," he said. ( Read Last Tango in Paris more... )

Last tango for Maria Schneider: 1952 - 2011

Some actresses are the flavor of the month. Catlike Maria Schneider, the voluptuous, pillow-lipped brunette with the confrontational gaze of Manet's "Olympia" who died of cancer in Paris at 58, was the flavor of a decade, the 1970s. She was 19 when Bernardo Bertolucci cast her in Last Tango in Paris (1972), as the girl who has anonymous sex with the grieving Marlon Brando in an abandoned Paris flat. She served a similar erotic function in Michelangelo Antonioni's existential allegory The Passenger (1975) , as the Girl to Jack Nicholson's title character.

The arthouse centerfold, daughter of French actor Daniel Gelin, was slated to star in Luis Bunuel's That Obscure Object of Desire but dropped out of the production at the eleventh hour (to be replaced by Carole Bouquet and Angela Molina). ( Read Last Tango in Paris more... )

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