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) "I am an actress, not a prostitute!") and checked herself into a mental hospital in Rome for several days to be with her lover, photographer Joan Townsend. This, coupled with her refusal to perform nude, led to Schneider's dismissal from the film. (She was replaced by Teresa Ann Savoy.) Around this time and towards the end of the decade, Schneider also turned down or dropped out of productions such as Luis Buñuel's "That Obscure Object of Desire" (1976), due to creative differences (Buñuel famously replaced her with not one but two actresses for the same role), and Franco Zeffirelli's television