Marlene Schmidt
Birthday: 1934-09-07
Place of Birth: Breslau, Germany
Biography: Fled East Germany in 1960 to live in Stuttgart and work as an electronics engineer. Soon after, she entered a beauty contest on a whim and ended up winning the title of Miss Germany. That led to being crowned Miss Universe in 1961. She married actor Ty Hardin in 1962, but the marriage only lasted 3 years. In 1969, she married Iraqi-born filmmaker Howard Avedis. Their partnership resulted in numerous drive-in hits and cult classics, including The Stepmother (1972), The Teacher (1974) and Mortuary (1983). Marlene always produced, sometimes wrote and usually appeared in supporting roles in these productions.
Movies
Farewell, Lebanon
The film presents the topic of migration, cultural contrast and human alienation, through a group of...
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The Teacher
18-year-old Sean's first summer after completing high school is much spent with 28-year-old teacher ...
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The Stepmother
Returning home from a business trip, an architect assumes that a client is having an affair with his...
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Dr. Minx
A small-town doctor (Edy Williams) becomes a suspect while probing her rich husband's mysterious dea...
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The Red Plain
With Rezvan's death his nephew Betty comes to Iran from abroad to sell the lands she has inherited f...
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Kidnapped
A woman's sister is kidnapped on her 16th Birthday and forced into filming pornography. A policeman ...
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The Fifth Floor
A young woman collapses on the disco dance floor of what's revealed to be strychnine poisoning. Assu...
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Separate Ways
A wife unhappy in her marriage begins an affair with an art student, unaware that her husband, a rac...
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Texas Detour
A trip across the United States takes a wrong turn when three California teenagers have their van st...
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Mortuary
A young woman investigates the seemingly accidental death of her father, revealing many unsettling s...
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They're Playing with Fire
A married college professor decides to seduce her student, whom she hired as a handyman for her yach...
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The Specialist
Jerry Bounds, an upright lawyer, must stand up against Pike Smith and his the water company's effort...
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Scorchy
Seattle undercover narc Jackie Parker is out to bust the drug smuggling ring commanded by Philip Bia...
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