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‘ Ma, ... how do you really feel about the blacklist? Angry? Frustrated? How? ’” “ That needed to be answered, and I thought about it a lot. Angry? No. To me, anger is a futile emotion. I think I can sum it up in two words: deep sorrow. Not for myself – I’ve survived, and my life is full of joy – but a deep sorrow for [my husband] Larry that will be with me in my heart for the rest of my life .” – Betty Garrett Take Me Out to the Ball Game That's Betty Garrett on the far right, next to her is Gene Kelly, Ester Williams and Frank Sinatra. The film is Take Me Out to the Ball Game , and Garrett as Shirley Delwyn is hilarious in her pursuit of  Dennis Ryan (Sinatra). Especially when she corners him by singing " It's Fate Baby, It's Fate".    Sinatra and Garrett in On the Town  In On the Town (1949) she gets to chase Sinatra again and plays the unforgettable pushy cabby Brunhilde Esterhazy (Hildy) who annoys Gaby (Sinatra) and tries to convince him her place ...

Note: This tribute to Maria Schneider was published in Senses of Cinema, March 13, 2011 and has been updated here. Merry Go Round, 1977. For most, the focus for Maria Schneider is on a film that is 40 years old, on a role that was written by Bertolucci for a young boy but was acted by a 19-year-old French woman. Can you imagine that film? Maria discovered the original story in Italy. A film that in auteur conceit could have been the second leg of a trilogy on fascism: The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, 1900. In Last Tango Jeanne confronts her sadistic attacker Paul and shoots him. Schneider sums it up: “I must say that the murder in the end of the film did me much good”.  Few journalists having a field day with the film’s excesses knew of her work, her life, or her thoughts. David Thompson ("Remembering Maria Schneider: Did film ruin the controversial actress's life?", New Republic, February 2011) decided to impose his astute personal reading...

Autoportrait: Maria Schneider Interview with Maria Schneider by Jackie Buet, Elisabeth Jenny. Créteil Films de Films, 2001. Maria Schneider - Belle et Rebelle What had become of her? We left her, a child in the arms of handsome Marlon. In a role too overwhelming for her and she would not return unscathed. Descent into hell. Solitude. Chaotic career. With the sole bastion of  acute lucidity of the mediocrities in the world. We find her today more beautiful than ever. Funny. Insolent. A little bruised. Waiting for a role of good measure, and we would be proud. We love her very much. Portrait. A Precocious Rebel "I wanted to paint, and I studied Latin and Greek. I was a good student, I wanted to make excavations and illustration for children's books, because it is an artistic craft. My mother was a librarian. I was living with her. Then there was May 68 and while my brother became bourgeois, a physician, and demonstrated with red flags, I cried because I coul...

AXS ENTERTAINMENT   ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT   MOVIES Maria Schneider: Accomplished Arthouse Actress Dies at 58 February 4, 2011  5:45 PM MST  Facebook   Twitter   Pinterest   Linkedin   Google Plus   Comment     Maria Schneider: Accomplished arthouse actor dies at 58; forget Last Tango. Créteil Films de Femmes French actress  Maria Schneider  died in Paris on Thursday (Feb. 3) after a long bout with cancer. In the USA we know her from  Last Tango in Paris  because it was an English language film. It was a product of a niche genre from the '60s and '70s called Euro-American “arthouse” films. American actors and European actors alike starred in these films, which were usually directed by European directors, and were co-productions between France, Italy, the UK and the USA. Examples are  Bernardo Bertolucci  (Last Tango in Paris, 1972),  René Clément...