Maria Schell's acting artistry was unmistakable, her smile through tears legendary. She performed on the world's great stages ...

It was the opening night of the first-grade play. Up to the theater door came skipping the prettiest little girl in the world—her golden hair in loving braids, her skin like pinks in a bowl of milk, ...

Swiss actress Maria Schell was a luminous European movie star of the 1950s who had a brief but successful run in Hollywood ("The Brothers Karamazov," "Cimarron") before formally retiring in 1963 and ...