- Born
- Died
- Birth nameChristel Schmidtmer
- Height5′ 6″ (1.68 m)
- Christiane Schmidtmer was born in Mannheim, Germany. She took acting lessons in Munich and worked in the stage in Germany from 1961-1963, then turned to photographic modeling for German nude magazines and later, Playboy. She also modeled for advertising companies, namely Max Factor cosmetics, before she started her movie career.
She was the beautiful mistress of José Ferrer in Ship of Fools (1965), but most people will remember her as the evil wardress in the exploitation women-in-prison film, The Big Doll House (1971), as well as one of the three airline stewardesses in Boeing, Boeing (1965).
- IMDb mini biography by: Artemis-9
- SpouseMichel Thomas(1965 - ?) (divorced)
- Received a 4 page pictorial (with 9 photos) in the March, 1966 issue of Playboy.
- Against the will of her mother, who wanted a medical career for her daughter, Christiane Schmidtmer moved to Munich in 1959 and began two years of acting training.
- After her return to Los Angeles, she met the polyglot language teacher and publisher Michel Thomas for the first time in August 1965 at the Chateau Marmont Hotel . The two began a long love relationship a short time later.
- A short time later, Schmidtmer moved back to Heidelberg to live with her now widowed mother. Her own health deteriorated during this time.
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