Word: albach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shed more than the memory of her early career. She was born in Vienna before World War II, when the city was still trying to be gay. Her mother, Magda Schneider, was a weepy, waltzy actress who was the Jeanette MacDonald of prewar Austria. Her father, Wolf Albach-Retty, was a celebrated actor, and is still a staple of the Vienna Volkstheater. Now divorced, the couple in those days had a retreat at Berchtesgaden, where Romy (a contraction of Rose-Marie) was raised by grandparents. There she playacted alone before her mother's mirror in the fairy-tale house...