Lelia Goldoni, who was cast in the lead role for John Cassavette’s race-centered film “Shadows,” died over the weekend at the age of 86.
The actress died on Saturday at the Actors Fund Home in Engelwood, New Jersey, Goldoni’s friend, Jd Sobol, told TheWrap on Thursday.
The New York City native was born on Oct. 1, 1936, and got her start in the entertainment business during the 1940s, with one of her first roles being a cameo in Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s “House of Strangers” in 1949. That same year she also had a role in John Huston’s “We Were Strangers.”
Martin Scorsese later brought Goldoni on to star as a friend of Ellen Burnstyn’s character in his 1974 film “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore.” Her resume also included performing in the original “The Italian Job” (1969), John Schlesinger’s “The Day of the Locust” (1975) and Robert Mulligan’s “Bloodbrothers.”
Goldoni, who...
The actress died on Saturday at the Actors Fund Home in Engelwood, New Jersey, Goldoni’s friend, Jd Sobol, told TheWrap on Thursday.
The New York City native was born on Oct. 1, 1936, and got her start in the entertainment business during the 1940s, with one of her first roles being a cameo in Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s “House of Strangers” in 1949. That same year she also had a role in John Huston’s “We Were Strangers.”
Martin Scorsese later brought Goldoni on to star as a friend of Ellen Burnstyn’s character in his 1974 film “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore.” Her resume also included performing in the original “The Italian Job” (1969), John Schlesinger’s “The Day of the Locust” (1975) and Robert Mulligan’s “Bloodbrothers.”
Goldoni, who...
- 7/28/2023
- by Raquel "Rocky" Harris
- The Wrap
Archive footage and interviews with African-American dancer and choreographer Alvin Ailey - who died from the complications of AIDS in 1989 - enter a dance and a dialogue with a new work, Lazarus, in Jamila Wignot's documentary. The modern piece, performed by the dance company Ailey founded and choreographed by Rennie Harris in tribute to the dance pioneer, celebrates both his personal achievements and his legacy.
Wignot takes a chronological approach to Ailey's life, beginning with his dirt poor childhood in Texas before moving on to his move to LA as a child, and how he came to train with Lester Horton, alongside his sexual and dance awakening. The film touches on how important it is to see yourself and your history represented - and how shockingly narrow representation has been for too long - as Ailey recalls the revelatory feeling he got when he saw African-American dancer Katherine Dunham.
Wignot takes a chronological approach to Ailey's life, beginning with his dirt poor childhood in Texas before moving on to his move to LA as a child, and how he came to train with Lester Horton, alongside his sexual and dance awakening. The film touches on how important it is to see yourself and your history represented - and how shockingly narrow representation has been for too long - as Ailey recalls the revelatory feeling he got when he saw African-American dancer Katherine Dunham.
- 7/23/2021
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Oscar-winning director Barry Jenkins has his next project lined up.
Jenkins, who directed Moonlight, is working on a feature film about the life and career of choreographer and dancer Alvin Ailey, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The film, which is untitled, will also have the assistance of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, which controls the rights to Ailey’s choreography, THR reported.
Jenkins, 39, is set to direct the film with a script by Julian Breece who has worked on Ava DuVernay’s When They See Us, now on Netflix. Alicia Keys is set to produce, according to IMDb.
The...
Jenkins, who directed Moonlight, is working on a feature film about the life and career of choreographer and dancer Alvin Ailey, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The film, which is untitled, will also have the assistance of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, which controls the rights to Ailey’s choreography, THR reported.
Jenkins, 39, is set to direct the film with a script by Julian Breece who has worked on Ava DuVernay’s When They See Us, now on Netflix. Alicia Keys is set to produce, according to IMDb.
The...
- 6/3/2019
- by Alexia Fernandez
- PEOPLE.com
Oscar winner Barry Jenkins is preparing his return to the big screen after last year’s “If Beale Street Could Talk.” Deadline reports that the “Moonlight” and “Medicine for Melancholy” filmmaker has been set to direct Fox Searchlight’s currently untitled film based on the life of celebrated choreographer Alvin Ailey.
The outlet reports that the speciality hub of Fox struck a deal with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater just last year, “which granted full cooperation from the organization that controls the rights to Ailey’s choreography.” The package also includes the rights to Jennifer Dunning’s biography “Alvin Ailey: A Life In Dance.” Searchlight and the film’s producers will reportedly work closely with Artistic Director Robert Battle and Artistic Director Emerita, Judith Jamison, “to bring Ailey’s story and choreography to the screen.”
Rising screenwriter Julian Breece will write the script for the film. The “Buppies” creator...
The outlet reports that the speciality hub of Fox struck a deal with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater just last year, “which granted full cooperation from the organization that controls the rights to Ailey’s choreography.” The package also includes the rights to Jennifer Dunning’s biography “Alvin Ailey: A Life In Dance.” Searchlight and the film’s producers will reportedly work closely with Artistic Director Robert Battle and Artistic Director Emerita, Judith Jamison, “to bring Ailey’s story and choreography to the screen.”
Rising screenwriter Julian Breece will write the script for the film. The “Buppies” creator...
- 6/3/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
The dancers in the studio next to Carol Paumgarten's office break down beats on wooden floors, as the founder and artistic director of Steps on Broadway explains how she started her "labor of love." Paumgarten was not a dancer when she opened the Manhattan school. She had focused on skating and competitive tennis in her earlier years and started dancing in her late 20s, after having her second child."I went to Alvin Ailey and I was ignited," she says, referring to the esteemed New York dance academy. She "dared with trepidation" to take a modern-dance class in the Horton technique with choreographer and dancer Joyce Trisler, who had studied with Lester Horton. "I wanted to do more than just take class," Paumgarten says. "I really wanted to get immersed."Her immersion came in December 1979, when she founded Steps on Broadway. Since then, the school has emerged as a vital...
- 4/22/2010
- backstage.com
Dancer and actor known for his role in the American TV soap opera All My Children
There are legions of actors who are deeply grateful for the existence of long-running television soap operas. James Mitchell, who has died aged 89, was one of them. He enjoyed playing the wily patriarch Palmer Cortlandt in the popular Us daytime soap All My Children from 1979 to 2008. It came at the right time in his career. At 59, his dancing days were over and his film acting had failed to catch fire.
The majority of loyal fans of All My Children were probably not aware that the debonair, grey-haired Mitchell, still svelte and handsome, had been a leading dancer for many years, particularly associated with the celebrated choreographer Agnes de Mille. According to De Mille, Mitchell had "probably the strongest arms in the business, and the adagio style developed by him and his partners has become...
There are legions of actors who are deeply grateful for the existence of long-running television soap operas. James Mitchell, who has died aged 89, was one of them. He enjoyed playing the wily patriarch Palmer Cortlandt in the popular Us daytime soap All My Children from 1979 to 2008. It came at the right time in his career. At 59, his dancing days were over and his film acting had failed to catch fire.
The majority of loyal fans of All My Children were probably not aware that the debonair, grey-haired Mitchell, still svelte and handsome, had been a leading dancer for many years, particularly associated with the celebrated choreographer Agnes de Mille. According to De Mille, Mitchell had "probably the strongest arms in the business, and the adagio style developed by him and his partners has become...
- 4/13/2010
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
Every young actor wants only to be a film or TV star, right?Well, that's not quite true. A sturdy crop of young actors recently graduated from college theater programs has been giving stellar performances in musical theater productions across the country.Take, for instance, Jessica Keenan Wynn, currently the sole female in "Life Could Be a Dream," a doo-wop musical set in 1960. Written and directed by Roger Bean ("The Marvelous Wonderettes"), the show is currently playing at Los Angeles' Hudson Mainstage Theatre."There's something about musical theater where everything is heightened through song," Wynn says. "I hate to say it, but if I could sing my emotions every day—without being thought of as clinically insane—I probably would." (Perhaps Wynn comes by her enthusiasm naturally. She's the granddaughter of actor Keenan Wynn, who appeared on Broadway in musical revues in the 1930s and 1940s, and the great-granddaughter of Ed Wynn,...
- 10/22/2009
- backstage.com
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