Sexual abuse in Hollywood old at the time of its publication, but never made a statement on the subject. In 2016, actress Tippi Hedren claimed in her autobiography that in 1963, she had been sexually harassed by film director Alfred Hitchcock during the filming of the film "The Birds" and that he had forbidden other male actors to approach her. At the end of 2016, it was reported that in 1972, Marlon Brando had sexually abused actress Maria Schneider during a scene from the film "Last Tango in Paris". According to the reports, neither Brando nor director Bernardo Bertolucci warned the actress that she
Maria Schneider (actress) Xavier Gélin, also an actor. In 2001, Schneider was the guest of honor at the 23rd Festival Créteil Films de Femmes. In a master class at the festival, she called film "a tracing of memory", and said that women must be recognized as actors and directors. She also brought attention to the importance of assisting senior French actors who become unemployed and impoverished. Schneider was chosen the same year as vice-president of , an organization in Paris organized to support senior French actors and directors. According to Schneider, Marcel Carné, director of "Children of Paradise" (1945) and one of the