Actress Christa Lang, 82, died on Jan. 30 at her Los Angeles home. Born in Germany, she moved to France and was soon acting in such films as Alphaville, Circle of Love, Le Scandale, and Code Name: Tiger. In the US, Lang had small or supporting roles in Peter Bogdanovich’s What’s Up, Doc?, At Long Last Love, and Nickelodeon. In 1967 Lang married director Samuel Fuller (he died in 1997; their daughter Samantha Fuller is an actress). She continued to work sporadically, mostly in TV-movies and indie films. In later years, Lang got a master’s in French literature from UCLA. Lang said that Forty Guns was her favorite Sam Fuller movie: “I could see it over and over again. And I always see new touches that he put into the film. Barbara Stanwyck was 50 years old when she made the movie, and she's fantastic. Sam put a lot of sexual innuendos in there, because people think Forty Guns are forty guns, but they're actually forty of her lovers . . . young women came over that couldn't believe that Sam made this film in 1956. And that it was a studio picture. ‘How did you get away with it, Sam?’ they asked him. Now I don't know how he got away with it, but he did.”
