Alain Delon placed a piece of paper with the following words on her tomb: "Tu n'as jamais été aussi belle, tu vois j'ai appris quelques mots allemands pour toi: Ich liebe dich meine Liebe" (You have never been so beautful, you see that I learned some words in German for you: I love you my love).
Pedro Almodóvar's film All About My Mother (1999) is partially dedicated to her.
1953: Graduated at the Goldstein boarding school near Salzburg, Austria.
1999: Was voted "Greatest actress of all time" by the readers of French newspaper "Le Parisien".
2000: Is portrayed on a 110 + 50 pfennig postage stamp by Deutsche Post.
24 November 2006: Ranked #3 in a survey by network ZDF searching Germany's all-time favorite actor, which made her the highest ranked woman.
30 April 2005: Ranked #1 in a list by tabloid "Bild" searching the "50 most beautiful Germans ever".
30 October 1974: Her appearance on "Je später der Abend..." (1973) made German television history when she passionately remarked to Burkhard Driest, a bank robber and author: "Sie gefallen mir. Sie gefallen mir sehr." (I like you. I like you a lot.).
A telephone chart representing Romy circulated in France in 1994, at the time of a campaign celebrating French cinema, with images of actors and actresses extracted from films and showing them on the telephone. The phone card with Romy, was a photograph extracted from The Swimming Pool (1969)).
After her first movie, Wolf Albach-Retty wrote his daughter: "Put your childhood in your pocket and run away because that's everything you have!".
Best friends with French actor Michel Piccoli.
Cesar award winner.
Daughter of Wolf Albach-Retty and Magda Schneider
Engaged to Alain Delon from 1959 to 1964.
Engaged to Horst Buchholz (1957-1958).
Friends with Austrian actor Helmut Berger and French designer Coco Chanel. She would often wear clothes design by Chanel during the 1960s and 1970s.
Good friend Simone Signoret convinced Romy to do her last film after the tragic death of her son David.
Good friends with German Bundeskanzler Willy Brandt. She was one of many celebrities supporting his politics of social novation.
Granddaughter of Rosa Albach-Retty and Karl Albach.
Had a younger brother named Wolfgang Albach-Retty.