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Eleanor Coppola, Emmy award winning director, dies aged 87

Coppola known for Hearts of Darkness, film chronicling tortured production of husband Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now

Eleanor Coppola, the Emmy award-winning director, artist and writer, died Friday at her home in Rutherford, California, her family announced in a statement. In addition to her own artistry, Coppola is remembered as the matriarch of a successful filmmaking family, raising with her husband Francis three children who entered the movie business. Though the family did not offer a cause of death, Eleanor Coppola’s health had been in question; Sofia declined to attend the screening of Priscilla at the New York Film Festival in early October.

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