Rosemarie Lindt | |
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 Lindt in La cameriera (1974) | |
| Born | 1939 (age 84–85) |
| Occupation(s) | Ballerina, film actress |
| Years active | 1963 - 1979 |
Rosemarie Lindt is a German actress and ballet dancer who was known to the wider audience for her appearances in Frau Wirtin series in the late 1960s and in Italian exploitation cinema of the 1970s.
Lindt studied at Folkwang University of the Arts under Kurt Jooss and performed as the prima ballerina at Opernhaus Wuppertal, Opernhaus Düsseldorf, Paris Opera, and Théâtre de la Ville. [1]
By 1963, Lindt and her boyfriend Jacques Herlin moved from Paris to Rome for Herlin's permanent employment at Cinecittà and Lindt soon found minor roles in cinema, starting with La ballata dei mariti (1963) and later Hercules the Invincible (1964). She became a regular with Herlin in Franz Antel's acclaimed series Frau Wirtin from 1967 to 1970. In the 1970s, Lindt had appeared in many Italian exploitation films including gialli, poliziotteschi and horror films before retiring from acting in 1979.
Lindt moved to New York City after marrying Alfredo Piccolo and she has been operating the Lindt Ballet Theater with her husband. She also taught ballet at Hunter College. [1]
Sword-and-sandal, also known as peplum, is a subgenre of largely Italian-made historical, mythological, or biblical epics mostly set in the Greco-Roman antiquity or the Middle Ages. These films attempted to emulate the big-budget Hollywood historical epics of the time, such as Samson and Delilah (1949), Quo Vadis (1951), The Robe (1953), The Ten Commandments (1956), Ben-Hur (1959), Spartacus (1960), and Cleopatra (1963). These films dominated the Italian film industry from 1958 to 1965, eventually being replaced in 1965 by spaghetti Western and Eurospy films.
Franz Antel was a veteran Austrian filmmaker.
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