10 Facts About Magda Schneider

Magdalena Maria Schneider was a German actress and singer.

Magda Schneider was the mother of the actress Romy Schneider.

Magdalena Maria Schneider was born in Augsburg, Bavaria, the daughter of a plumber.

Magda Schneider attended a Catholic girls' school and a commercial college; thereafter she worked as a stenographer in a grain store.

Magda Schneider made her stage debut at the Staatstheater am Gartnerplatz in Munich.

Magda Schneider drew the attention of the Austrian director Ernst Marischka who called her to the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, and in 1930 gave Magda Schneider her first film role.

Magda Schneider was a guest of Hitler's, who declared that she was his favorite actress.

Magda Schneider again began filming in 1948 and promoted her daughter's career with the joint appearance in the film When the White Lilacs Bloom Again directed by Hans Deppe, a typical 1950s Heimatfilm which was the film debut of her daughter, 14-year-old Romy Magda Schneider.

Magda Schneider arranged further appearances with her daughter in several movies such as Madchenjahre einer Konigin, the films of the Sissi trilogy based on the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria, with Romy Schneider starring in the title role and Magda Schneider playing the role of her mother Princess Ludovika of Bavaria, and in Die Halbzarte.

Magda Schneider died in 1996 at her house in Schonau near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria.