Marlene Schmidt

Marlene Schmidt

Born: September 6, 1934
in Breslau, Germany
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 for Marlene Schmidt...

Kidnapped
Title: Kidnapped
Character: Secretary
Released: June 9, 1988
Type: Movie
A woman's sister is kidnapped on her 16th Birthday and forced into filming pornography. A policeman helps the woman rescue her teenage sister from the pornographers.
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They're Playing with Fire
Title: They're Playing with Fire
Character: Gas Station Customer
Released: April 1, 1984
Type: Movie
A married college professor decides to seduce her student, whom she hired as a handyman for her yacht. The hesitant student succumbs to his buxom professor, but their romance is interrupted by her corrupt husband and a masked murderer.
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Mortuary
Title: Mortuary
Character: Lois Stevens
Released: September 2, 1983
Type: Movie
Christie Parson has constant nightmares of her father's death whom died in a swimming pool. Christie's mother thinks it was an accident, but Christie believes it was murder. Christie then sees an unknown figure dressed in a cape following her and harassing her. But still nobody believes her, until her boyfriend sees the figure himself. The figure hides in the town mortuary which is owned by Hank Andrews and his demented son, Paul. Both are trying to form rituals to bring back Dr. Parson's spirit. But, who is this figure and why is he harassing Christie?
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Separate Ways
Title: Separate Ways
Character: Pat Ingram
Released: May 1, 1981
Type: Movie
A wife unhappy in her marriage begins an affair with an art student, unaware that her husband, a race driver, is also having an affair.
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The Fifth Floor
Title: The Fifth Floor
Character: Night Nurse
Released: November 15, 1978
Type: Movie
A young woman collapses on the disco dance floor of what's revealed to be strychnine poisoning. Assuming that this is an attempt at suicide, her boyfriend and doctor have her committed to the Fifth Floor, an asylum with obviously crazy inmates and a predatory orderly. The problem is, she's still sane!
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Texas Detour
Title: Texas Detour
Character: Lady Bartender
Released: June 6, 1978
Type: Movie
Teenagers' van gets stolen and while the local authorites refuse to help they decidet to take manners to their own hands.
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Dr. Minx
Title: Dr. Minx
Character: Harriet Thomas
Released: November 1, 1975
Type: Movie
A small-town doctor (Edy Williams) becomes a suspect while probing her rich husband's mysterious death.
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The Teacher
Title: The Teacher
Character: Alice Roberts
Released: May 29, 1974
Type: Movie
18-year-old Sean's first summer after completing high school is much spent with 28-year-old teacher Diane, who's husband is too often motorcycle-racing instead of with her. Wacko Ralph also has "the hots" for Diane; and it doesn't help that Sean was with Ralph's younger brother, Lou, when Lou died
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The Stepmother
Title: The Stepmother
Character: Sonja Hill
Released: October 26, 1972
Type: Movie
Returning home from a business trip, an architect assumes that a client is having an affair with his wife and murders the man. His feelings of guilt and attempts to conceal the crime lead to more complications and death.
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Farewell, Lebanon
Title: Farewell, Lebanon
Released: September 9, 1968
Type: Movie
The film presents the topic of migration, cultural contrast and human alienation, through a group of young people who are forced to migrate, facing severe social pressures and having difficulty in adapting to their new environments.
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The Red Plain
Title: The Red Plain
Released: May 5, 1968
Type: Movie
With Rezvan's death his nephew Betty comes to Iran from abroad to sell the lands she has inherited from him. Fahim wants the lands for himself but Bahram is preventing him. This put them to confront each other while Betty too falls in love with Bahram.
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Destiny
Title: Destiny
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie