The Marriage of Maria Braun film "Lili Marleen" with Hanna Schygulla in the main role. Horst Wendlandt would produce the two other films in the BRD Trilogy, "Lola" and "Veronika Voss". His success also allowed him to realize his last project, "Querelle" which was co-financed by Gaumont. As Fengler had oversold the rights to the film, the profit share of Fassbinder was an open question. Eckelkamp saw himself as the sole owner of all rights, but sent a check in the amount of 70,000 DM to Fassbinder in 1982 to appease the director. After Fassbinder's death his mother and heiress Liselotte Eder revived the claims,
Mel Ferrer Work" and co-starred another college student, Frances Pilchard, who would become Ferrer's first wife that same year. At age twenty-one, he was appearing on the Broadway stage as a chorus dancer, making his debut there as an actor two years later. He appeared as a chorus dancer in two unsuccessful musicals, Cole Porter's "You Never Know (musical)" and "Everywhere I Roam". His first acting roles were in a revival of "Kind Lady" (1940) and "Cue for Passion" (1940) directed by Otto Preminger. After a bout with polio, Ferrer worked as a disc jockey in Texas and Arkansas and moved to