United Artists
Before Maria Schneider, moviegoers had never seen explicit sex up on the big screen. After her eye-popping debut, cinema would never be the same.
The French actress who gave Marlon Brando's libido a workout and raised the ire of the anti-porn brigade for her nude showcase in Bernardo Bertolucci's 1972 classic The Last Tango in Paris has died after a long illness. She was 58.