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Maria Margarethe Anna Schell (15 January 1926 – 26 April 2005) was an Austrian-Swiss actress. She was one of the leading stars of German cinema in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1954, she was awarded the Cannes Best Actress Award for her performance in Helmut Käutner's war drama The Last Bridge, and in 1956, she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for Gervaise.
Actress: Superman. 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 ...
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- Vienna, Austria
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- Preitenegg, Carinthia, Austria
Maria Schell was a German-Austrian actress who starred in films such as The Last Bridge, The Brothers Karamazov and Superman. She also appeared in theater, TV and had a brother, Maximilian Schell, who made a film about her in 2002.
- January 15, 1926
- April 26, 2005
Apr 28, 2005 · Maria Schell, an Austrian actress who achieved international fame in Hollywood and became a major star of German-language films, died on Tuesday at her home in Preitenegg, Austria. She was 79. The ...
Born Maria Margarethe Anna Schell on Jan. 15, 1926, in Vienna to an actress mother and playwright father, she fled to her father’s native Switzerland with her family during World War II and ...
Maria Schell war die Tochter von Hermann Ferdinand Schell, einem Schweizer Schriftsteller, und Margarethe Noé von Nordberg, einer Wiener Schauspielerin.Sie wuchs mit ihren Geschwistern Maximilian, Carl und Immy zunächst in Österreich auf, bevor die Familie nach der Eingliederung Österreichs in das Deutsche Reich 1938 nach Zürich übersiedelte.
Learn about the life and career of Maria Schell, a post-war era star who appeared in European and American films. See her stunning photos from various roles and events.
