Maria

MariaAlready a show-business veteran at 20, Parisienne Maria Schneider is finally getting a chance to play with the big kids. Her first major film role, in Tango, is most assuredly not going to be her last. Mlle. Schneider is the daughter of a celebrated French stage-and-screen actor, Daniel Gelin; to avoid trading on his reputation, she chose to use her Romanian mother's maiden name. Born in Paris, Maria left school at 15 to make her stage debut--without benefit of formal training--as a dancer...