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(Marianne Weiss)
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| 15 May 33 |
is born in Johannisburg, East Prussia
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her father is missing in the last days of WWII; her mother will remarry
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| c. 45 |
at the end of WWII, she ends up in Innsbruck, Tyrol, and decides on a pilgrimage to Rome / runs away from home at age 15 and goes to Rome, Italy, where she starts working in the kitchen of a Protestant convent
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works as a cutter at the Cinecittą film studio near Rome
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is spotted by director Gabriel Pascal, who offers her a scholarship at the Cinecittą acting school
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is discovered by mountaineer-turned-director Luis Trenker. There are rumors she and Trenker are lovers.
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| November 57 |
is on the cover of Film Revue #24
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| Christmas 60 |
spends her holidays with Italian cellist Enrico Mainardi in Greece
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| December 60 |
there are rumors she may marry Mainardi, despite the fact that he’s still married
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secretly marries Mainardi. He is approximately 30 years her senior.
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| 62 |
her address is Munich 2, Ottostrasse 9. She also maintains a flat in Innsbruck, Tyrol, and a small winery in Southern Tyrol.
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| February 64 |
while filming Mission to Hell in Bangkok, she meets the director of a big U.S. pharmaceutical company / director of an international Hong Kong-based hotel chain, Australian / Yugoslavian-born Dr. Friedrich Strobel von Stein, and marries him six days later in a Far Eastern ceremony. Strobel represented his country in the swimming competitions at the Olympic Summer Games in London, 1948. He will be discovered by French director Andre Hunebelle as a movie actor and change his name to Frederick Stafford.
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they honeymoon at their home in the Bahamas
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| 65 |
her son, Jean Paul Roderick, is born
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| August 69 |
is on the cover of Cine Revue
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| Christmas 69 |
is Christmas shopping with her husband in Hamburg, Germany
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| 1 September 73 |
vanishes with her son, 8-year-old Roderick, from her hotel room in Lugano. Her last sign of life is a phone call where she declares to take a taxi to Milan and then a plane to Rome. Stafford reports her missing to the Roman authorities.
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| End September 73 |
finally is found in a confused state of mind by her husband at their Lugano penthouse. She has to be treated at a psychiatric clinic. There are rumors the reason for this is due to her husband’s 25-year-old co-star, buxom Margaret Rose Keil.
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| 28 July 79 |
Stafford dies in the collision of two sport aircrafts in Sarnen, Switzerland
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sells her apartments in Munich and Rome and breaks up with friends such as Luis Trenker and actor Hans von Borsody. She assumes the name of Strobel and vanishes with her son in Zurich, Switzerland.
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| 87 |
reporters locate her in a Swiss sanitarium, where she is recuperating from stomach surgery
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maintains flats in Zurich, Lugano, and Marbella and a home in the Bahamas, where she spent her honeymoon and where she plans to enjoy her later years
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| 91 |
is in the real estate business in Majorca, Spain
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lives in a 185-square-meter home in Lugano at Lago Maggiore, Switzerland. Her salaries were invested in real estate at Marbella and in the Bahamas.
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| 11 September 94 |
dies at age 61 in her home in Lugano from cardiac arrest. She had been at home alone when death came in the middle of the night.
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Sources:
Munziger, Bild, BamS, Hoer Zu, Bildwoche
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