Österreichische Post Maria Schell -- Austrians in Hollywood

ÖSTERREICHISCHE POST  in 2015 honoured the actress Maria Schell as part of its popular "Austrians in Hollywood" series. It was franked with a unique overprint of her image and bore the appropriate special cancellation.  

The Hollywood star from Austria -- the film actress Maria Schell was born in Vienna in 1926 and died in Carinthia in 2005. Maria Schell was without doubt one of the biggest stars of German-language films in the 1950s and 1960s as well as many Hollywood films. 

She had starring roles in "The Brothers Karamazov", "The Hanging Tree", "Inside the Third Reich" and other films.

She was the eldest sister of Actor-Writer-Director-Classical Pianist Maximilian Schell.