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Eleanor Coppola Dies: ‘Hearts Of Darkness’ Emmy Winner & Wife Of Francis Ford Coppola For 61 Years Was 87
Eleanor Coppola has died at 87. She was Francis Ford Coppola's wife of 60 years and directed an 'Apocalypse Now' documentary. Sofia Coppola is her daughter.
The production of that 1979 classic – which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes and was nominated for the Best Picture Oscar – was plagued by problems related to budget, casting, script, the weather – a typhoon destroyed much of the set – and even an active insurgency in the Philippines, the battle with which pulled away helicopters on loan from the government. Eleanor filmed Francis’ daily routine and captured remarkable behind-the-scenes footage, and Hearts of Darkness has become perhaps the definitive document of a major motion picture production. Born Eleanor Jessie Neil on May 4, 1936, in Los Angeles, she graduated from UCLA and met her future husband while working as an assistant art director on the 1962 horror pic Dementia 13, which was his writing and directing debut.
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