Marlene Schmidt

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Marlene Schmidt was Miss Universe in 1961.

She was born in the eastern part of Germany, grown up in the German Democratic Republic after war, but went to West-Germany and lived in Stuttgart.

She won the Miss Germany pageant in the same year, representing Baden-Württemberg. But winning Miss Universe, Schmidt became the first German to make a breakthrough in the pageant, after years of runner-up finishes. She went on to have a movie career after her reign.

Schmidt was married to the actor Ty Hardin from 1962 to 1966 and they had one daughter. There are some good informatons, such as the German Phone Book, that she actually lives as Marlene Hardin in Saarbrücken.

[edit] Filmography

1986 Kidnapped
1984 They're Playing with Fire
1983 Mortuary
1981 Separate Ways
1978 The Fifth Floor
1978 Texas Detour
1976 Scorchy
1975 Dr. Minx
1975 The Specialist
1974 "The Teacher" aka "The Seductress"
1972 The Stepmother

[edit] List of Runners-up and Semi-finalists

	Name	Country
First Runner-up	Rosemarie Frankland	Wales
Second Runner-up	Adriana Gardiazabal	Argentina
Third Runner-up	Arlette Dobson	England
Fourth Runner-up	Sharon Brown	USA
Semi-Finalists	Maria Gloria Silva	Chile
	Wang Li-Ling	Republic of China
	Simone Darot	France
	Kristjanna Magnusdottir	Iceland
	Atida Pisanti	Israel
	Seo Yanghee	Korea
	Carmela Stein Bedoya	Peru
	Susan Jones	Scotland
	Gunilla Knutsson	Sweden
	Liliane Burnier	Switzerland