MARLENE SCHMIDT

'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. By 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. Per the German Phone Book, she now lives as Marlene Hardin in Saarbrücken.

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Filmography

List of Runners-up and Semi-finalists

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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

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

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★ Miss Universe 1961 — Marlene Schmidt