1. - Maria Schneider, Jeune fille libre de soir/The Baby Sitter, France-Italy, 1976. “I’ve a right to be mad under Article 4 of Italian Civil Law.” In mid-shoot, and   a welter of world headlines, Maria committed herself to a Rome psychiatric hospital, to reconcile with her lover, Joan (“Joey”) Townsend, placed there following a breakdown after a quarrel with Schneider.   “An act of mercy,” praised co-star Sydne Rome, “hurting herself to help another person.”