Christiane Schmidtmer

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Christiane Schmidtmer (December 24, 1939 – March 13, 2003) was a German actress, mannequin and nude model of the 1960s and 1970s.. Biography
Early life
Christiane Schmidtmer was born in Mannheim, Germany to Jakob Schmidtmer and his wife Gertrud on Christmas Eve 1939. Her father worked for the Western governments and disappeared in Russia during the war. The family later relocated from Mannheim to nearby Heidelberg after her mother remarried.
At the age of seventeen her mother sent her to London where Christiane attended St.Giles school to learn English. During her stay in England she met a powerful man of British royalty who offered to send her to the Royal Academy of Arts if - in return - she would sleep with him. She packed her bags and left for Germany the same night.
After returning to Heidelberg she attended the local Hölderlin-Gymnasium (High School) from which she graduated during the late 1950's. In 1959 against strong family opposition - her mother wanted her to follow a career in medicine - Christiane Schmidtmer moved to Munich where she began taking acting lessons. During that time she performed in afternoon stage productions for children.

Career
Christiane Schmidtmer worked in the stage in Germany from 1961 – 1963, then turned to photographic modelling for German fashion and nude magazines and later, Playboy in the USA. She also modelled for advertising companies, namely Max Factor Cosmetics, before she started her movie career. She was hired as their featured model and introduced at the New York World's Fair in 1964 followed by an American tour with visits to Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Chicago.
She appeared in German TV and movie productions, such as Rolf Hädrich's Delay in Marienborn. During the filming in Berlin and England she befriended co-star José Ferrer. The friendship lasted until Ferrer's death in 1992. He later recommended her to Stanley Kramer for his production of Ship of Fools, her first US film in which she played Ferrer's beautiful mistress. But today, most people will remember her as the evil wardress in the exploitation women-in-prison film The Big Doll House (1971) as well as the German Lufthansa stewardess Lise Bruner in Boeing Boeing. In this 1965 comedy she co-starred with Tony Curtis, Jerry Lewis, Thelma Ritter and Dany Saval (as the Air France stewardess) and Suzanna Leigh (as the British United Airways stewardess).
Despite the fact of being one of only a few German actresses of the 1960s who had successfully set foot in Hollywood and being praised by Hollywood critics as the most exciting German import since Marlene Dietrich, Christiane Schmidtmer - due to her attractive, stereotype German appearance - was often reduced to the role of the beautiful, blonde, sexy German. Her nickname which stuck with her throughout her entire career was "Liebesbombe"/"Love Bomb".
Throughout the 1970's and towards the end of her career, Christiane Schmidtmer appeared in numerous US Talkshows, TV-Shows and several B-Movie productions such as The Giant Spider Invasion (1975) and Hot Bubblegum - Lemon Popsicle 3 (1981). According to most sources this was to be her last movie in which she portrayed a nymphomaniac piano teacher. However she continued to do commercials and voiceover work in a number of productions. In 1980 shortly before ending her movie career she published her autobiography in German magazines called "My Wild Nights in Hollywood". It was later translated into several languages.

Later years and death
Following her movie career Christiane Schmidtmer worked as a licensed real estate agent with numerous million-dollar sales in southern California. She lived both in the US and Heidelberg.
In 1994 her apartment in Los Angeles was destroyed in a fire. Hundreds of videotapes including many demo tapes for casting offices, along with her movie and TV memorabilia were lost. In subsequent months Christiane Schmidtmer devoted much of her energy and time to rebuilding her memorabilia collection.
Shortly thereafter she permanently moved back to Germany to care for her aging mother. She led a quiet life during which her own health started to fail.
Christiane Schmidtmer died in her sleep on March 13, 2003 at her home in Heidelberg, Germany due to natural causes after an accident. She is survived by her last manager and long-time companion in Las Vegas
and her mother who still lives in Heidelberg. She was interred at the family grave in Heidelberg
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Filmography
Shifshuf Naim (1981) aka Hot Bubblegum - Lemon Popsicle III .... Fritzi
Half a House (1979) .... Gina
Wonder Woman .... Lisa Engel (1 episode, 1977)
The Giant Spider Invasion (1975) .... Helga
The Specialist (1975/I) .... Nude Model
Airport 1975 (1974) (uncredited) .... Angie Bell - Passenger
Police Story .... Hilda (1 episode, 1974)
Scream, Pretty Peggy (1973) (TV) .... Jennifer Elliot
The Big Doll House (1971) .... Miss Dietrich
The Most Deadly Game .... Bettina (1 episode, 1970)
Unser Doktor ist der Beste (1969) .... Frau Janssen
Hogan's Heroes .... Heidi Baum (1 episode, 1968)
I Deal in Danger (1966) .... Ericka von Lindendorf
12 O'Clock High .... Frieda von Heurtzel (1 episode, 1966)
The Wild Wild West .... Lucretia Ivronin (1 episode, 1966)
Blue Light .... Erika Von Lindendorf (1 episode, 1966)
Boeing Boeing (1965) .... Lise Bruner/Lufthansa
Ship of Fools (1965) .... Lizzi
DM-Killer (1965) .... Miranda
Sechs Stunden Angst (1964) (TV)
Fanny Hill (1964) aka Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (USA) .... Fiona
Hafenpolizei (1 episode, 1963)
Verspätung in Marienborn (1963) aka Delay in Marienborn (USA) .... Karin
Ein Todesfall wird vorbereitet .... Sandra Williams (1963) (TV)

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