02166cam a2200325 i 4500 884837743 TxAuBib 20230816120000.0 230330s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2023013739 9781982141509 HRD 26.00 1982141506 HRD 26.00 TxAuBib rda eng fre Schneider, Vanessa, author. Tu t'appelais Maria Schneider English. My cousin Maria Schneider [BOOK] : a memoir / Vanessa Schneider ; translated by Molly Ringwald. First Scribner hardcover edition. New York : Scribner, 2023. 152 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier The late French actress Maria Schneider is perhaps best known for playing Jeanne in the provocative film Last Tango in Paris, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and released to international shock and acclaim in 1972. It was Maria’s first major role, alongside film legend Marlon Brando, when she was barely eighteen years old. The experience would haunt her for the rest of her life, traumatizing her and sparking a tabloid firestorm that only ceased when she began to retreat from the public eye nearly two decades later. To Maria’s much younger cousin, Vanessa Schneider, Maria was a towering figure of another kind—a beautiful and fearsome fixture in Vanessa’s childhood, a rising star turned pariah whose career and struggles with addiction won the family shame and pride in equal measure. Here, Vanessa recounts the challenges of their overlapping youths and fraught adulthood and reveals both the tragedy and inevitability of Maria’s path in a family plagued by mental illness and in a society rife with misogyny. Provided by publisher. 20230816. Schneider, Maria 1952-2011. Motion picture actors and actresses France Biography. Biographies. Ringwald, Molly, translator.