sol1taryconf1nement:oldloves:Actress Maria Schneider & her girlfriend, Avis Rental Car heiress &
sol1taryconf1nement:oldloves:Actress Maria Schneider & her girlfriend, Avis Rental Car heiress & photographer, Joan Townsend, look out from the window of a mental hospital in Rome, 1976.Schneider had walked off of the set of the movie Caligula and checked herself into the facility in order to be with Townsend who was already a patient there.she was an icon and those undereye shadows speak so loudly here… this was after she had stormed from the caligula set shouting i’m an actress not a prostitute. they fired her for her refusal to do nude scenes and for visiting her gf, even though she was vry vocal about never going nude again ever since she was traumatised by acting in a rape scene as a 19 yo with a much older marlon brando where brando and the male director didn’t tell her of the scene beforehand to create a more ‘realistic response’. she was terrified and the tears were real. after that movie men would harass and stalk her, with one incident on a plane where a man told her of his gross fantasies. the director himself also admitted the movie was his manifested fantasies. still male directors tried to get her to do nude scenes again and again but she refused even the most prestigious directors and was fired from several movie sets. she developed depression and an addiction to cocaine, heroine and lsd. she became a women’s rights activist esp regarding women in movies, and preferred acting in smaller independent films and feminist pieces for which she received acknowledgment. she died p young of cancer in her 50s. -- source link