Marlene Schmidt

Born: 1934-09-06

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.

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They're Playing with Fire

as Gas Station Customer
Released: 1984-04-01

A married college professor decides to seduce her student, whom she hired as a handyman for her...

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Mortuary

as Lois Stevens
Released: 1983-09-02

Christie Parson has constant nightmares of her father's death whom died in a swimming pool....

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The Fifth Floor

as Night Nurse
Released: 1978-11-15

A young woman collapses on the disco dance floor of what's revealed to be strychnine poisoning....

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Kidnapped

as Secretary
Released: 1988-06-09

A woman's sister is kidnapped on her 16th Birthday and forced into filming pornography. A...

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Separate Ways

as Pat Ingram
Released: 1981-05-01

A wife unhappy in her marriage begins an affair with an art student, unaware that her husband, a...

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The Teacher

as Alice Roberts
Released: 1974-05-29

18-year-old Sean's first summer after completing high school is much spent with 28-year-old...

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Texas Detour

as Lady Bartender
Released: 1978-06-06

Teenagers' van gets stolen and while the local authorites refuse to help they decidet to take...

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The Stepmother

as Sonja Hill
Released: 1972-10-26

Returning home from a business trip, an architect assumes that a client is having an affair with...

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Dr. Minx

as Harriet Thomas
Released: 1975-11-01

A small-town doctor (Edy Williams) becomes a suspect while probing her rich husband's mysterious...

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The Red Plain

as uncredited
Released: 1968-05-05

With Rezvan's death his nephew Betty comes to Iran from abroad to sell the lands she has...

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Destiny

as uncredited
Released: 1968-01-01

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Farewell, Lebanon

as uncredited
Released: 1968-09-09

The film presents the topic of migration, cultural contrast and human alienation, through a...

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