Steal that style: Romy Schneider
Romy Schneider’s first movie was Wenn der weiße Flieder wieder blüht (When the White Lilacs Bloom Again) in 1953, credited as Romy Schneider-Albach. In 1954, Schneider for the first time portrayed a royal, playing a young Queen Victoria in the Austrian film Mädchenjahre einer Königin (known in the U.S. as The Story of Vicky and in Britain as Victoria in Dover).
Schneider’s breakthrough came with her portrayal of Elisabeth, Empress Consort of Austria, in the romantic biopic Sissi (1955) and its two sequels, Sissi – The Young Empress (1956) and Sissi – Fateful Years of an Empress (1957), all with Karlheinz Böhm, who became a close friend.
Romy Schneider was only 17 when she played the title role in “Sissi”, a romantic movie about the young Bavarian princess that became the empress of Austria. The film was Schneider’s breakthrough — it turned the Austrian-born actress into an instant 1950s film diva.
She didn’t want to be a princess all her life. “Yes, I loved this role back then,” Schneider said. “I was the princess, not just in front of the camera. I was always a princess. But one day I simply did not want to be a princess anymore.”
Despite the success, Schneider was desperate to get away from the naive and innocent characters that she was made to play in post-war Germany. “Sissi sticks to me like oatmeal,” she said. [via wikipedia and problogs.com]
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wow, amazing! so pretty!
For my wedding I wore the Sissi stars on my hair. My mom makes jewelry and made exact replicas of the famous stars she wears on her most famous picture. On the movie they don’t look that great, they are only shown on the banquet before the wedding on the first movie, but it did make me feel a bit more like a princess on my wedding day!
Wow, You are so lucky! 🙂 Every girls dream…
is it me but a young Priscilla Beaulieu ‘future wife of Elvis) looked a lot like her.