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Eleanor Coppola, Famed Documentarian and Francis Ford Coppola's Wife, Dead at 87

Eleanor famously documented her husband's exhausting effort to complete his 1979 classic 'Apocalypse Now.'

In that time, Francis dealt with a myriad of calamities -- from the film's star, Martin Sheen, suffering a heart attack to a typhoon destroying nearly all the sets in the Philippines. - GettyThe family's matriarch, who was married to Francis for 61 years, would produce filmmaking prodigies in Roman ( CQ, A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III) and Sofia, both of whom grew up on their father's famous sets. Eleanor, who also documented Sofia's 2006 historical drama, Marie Antoinette, beamed with pride when asked how it felt watching her daughter win an Oscar for Lost in Translation.

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