Maria Schell, 79; International Film Star Was Subject of Documentary ‘My Sister Maria’
LA Times
Maria Schell, an international film and television actress of the 1940s and ’50s and older sister of actor and director Maximilian Schell, has died. She was 79.
Schell died Tuesday at her home in the Austrian town of Preitenegg. She had gone into a clinic recently for treatment of pneumonia.
In 2002, her brother reminded audiences of Schell’s worldwide rise to fame and her subsequent decline in his well-received documentary, “My Sister Maria.”
