Romy Schneider was doomed to become an actress. Her grandmother received the title of "Austrian Sarah Bernhardt" on stage. Mother was considered the star of the Viennese drama. It's no wonder that at 14, Romy made her debut in the movie "When the White Lilac Reappears". A year later, Schneider starred in the film "The Young Years of the Queen", after which the famous Walt Disney called the actress "the most beautiful girl of the world". So began an amazing biography of actress Romy Schneider ...
From hatred to love ...
Romy's parents met on the set of the film "Flirt" based on the play by A. Schnitzler. However, their romance was short-lived and ended with the fact that Magda Schneider was alone with a little daughter in her arms. However, the picture brought her fame, and soon she remarried, and so the resentment of her father Romi did not hold.
Meanwhile, the producers decided to remove the remake of "Flirt" and invited to the main role the daughter of Magda Romy Schneider. Who could have known then that she would repeat the fate of her mother ?!
In 1958, the Schneider family arrived in Paris to shoot. At the gangway of the aircraft they were met with a luxurious bouquet by unknown actor Alain Delon. At first, the film partners did not like each other. Romy wrote in her diary: "From the first day of filming, we were at war and so weighed with each other that we flew down and feathers. No one could reconcile us. " He laughed at her inability to kiss, she accused him of rudeness and cynicism.
To the question: why did they feel mutual hostility yesterday, and today they suddenly felt that they can not live without each other? - no one could answer. The German newspapers choked with hysteria: "The French scoundrel has stolen the innocence of Germany!", "We loved her while she was staying with Sisey, and hated when she fled with a young man named Alain Delon!" Magda begged them to legalize their relationship. And they, not noticing anyone, enjoyed their love. March 22, 1959 Romy Schneider and Alain Delon were engaged.
"My heart is always with you ..."
Still, they were completely different, and, apart from the fast-passing passion, they had little in common. Schneider gravitated toward the home, family privacy, and Delon above all appreciated freedom. He could leave home at any time and sleep with anyone. In exchange, the same right he condescendingly granted to his future wife. Nevertheless, the marriage was postponed.
Their happy days turned out to be short winter. Together they played in the play based on the play by D. Ford "What a pity that you are a slut" staged by Luchino Visconti on the stage of the Teatro de Paris. After the premiere, Delon, stunned by success, rushed backstage to Magda and exclaimed: "Romy is the queen of Paris, my queen!"
It is known that love does not tolerate separation, and Romy and Alain almost ceased to see each other. He starred in Italy and France, she sought recognition in Hollywood. A weak consolation for Schneider was a short telegram from Delon: "My heart is always with you ..." She believed him, but one day someone slipped her a newspaper with a piquant snapshot: a pretty blonde is sitting on her knees at Delon. Romi did not have time to recover from the shock, as she received a letter from her beloved, where he informed her of her marriage with Natalie Berthelemy.
The medicine for love
To forget about the betrayal Delon Romi helped courting the German playwright Harry Mayen. In the spring of 1966, the actress married him. In the same year, Schneider's son David was born, and it seemed to her that she was beginning to live anew. However, Romy was waiting for an unpleasant discovery: her faithful suffered from a predilection for alcohol.
And suddenly a call from Paris. It was Delon. Confused in squabbles with former wives and mistresses, involved in a criminal story with murder, he remembered the woman who, despite everything, continued to love him. Alain encouraged the director of the new movie "Pool" to shoot in the title role Schneider. And now the newspapers are vying to publish pictures, on which the former bride and groom coo, like love doves. An attack of rage from Mayen caused a photo of Romy and Alain hugging in the airport of Nice. The family idyll collapsed in an instant. Harry demanded a divorce and half of his wife's fortune.
After parting with Mayen, Schneider took off more modest apartments. David's son stayed with his father. With the moving of Romi helped her secretary and driver Daniel Byasini, secretly in love with his mistress. He was courteous and attentive and accompanied her even on a long trip to Africa. Did she love him? Probably, after Delon Schneider could no longer feel such a feeling for any man. But in a good friend she always had an enduring need. Maybe that's why she agreed to marry Daniel and even gave birth to his daughter Sarah.
The blows of fate
Only Romy said to herself: "The evil shadows of the past have disappeared, I'm happy and loved!" - as new woes hit her again. In 1976, her father died, and then her mentor, Luchino Visconti, passed away. Then in his apartment, using the scarf Romy, the first husband hanged Harry Maya. Finally, her son David died tragically. Forgetting the keys to the house, he climbed through the trellised metal fence. Having reached the top, David suddenly broke and fell on the sharp spears of the fence.
Schneider fell into depression and in this extremely depressed state broke up with Daniel. At first she wanted to be alone - she even stopped attending secular parties, but soon on the horizon appeared a novice film-maker Laurent Pete. He became her favorite interlocutor, friend, and later even her husband. With him, she wanted to share everything - and victories, and adversity, and joy, and sadness ...
But life has decided otherwise. May 29, 1982 Romy Schneider suddenly died of a heart attack. The great actress was only 43 years old. A week later, in the French media, an arrogant and shocking epitaph from Alain Delon appeared: "They tell me that you are dead. Am I to blame for this? Yes, it's because of me your heart stopped beating. Because of me, because 25 years ago I was made your partner in Christina. So in the biography of actress Romy Schneider, Alain Delon himself was given a fat point.