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Beauty Icon: Romy Schneider
By the seventies, Romy reigned as one of French cinema's biggest stars—a two-time César Award-winning actress who worked with auteurs such as Claude Sautet, Claude Chabrol, and Costa-Gavras and an activist who used the bully pulpit of her fame to speak out on issues including women's rights. But tragedy shadowed Schneider: Her first husband committed suicide, and their son David died in an accident in 1981. By all accounts, she never recovered from that loss.