Death of Eleanor Coppola, wife of Francis Ford and director of the film “Apocalypse Now”

DEATH – Eleanor Coppola, film producer, artist, writer and wife of Francis Ford Coppola, died at the age of 87, American media reported this Saturday, April 13, not CNN.

The information was confirmed by the representative of Francis Ford Coppola, Nesma Youssef, who said in her statement that Eleanor Coppola was. “surrounded by his loving family” at his home in Rutherford, California at the time of his death on Friday, April 12.

Eleanor and Francis Ford Coppola were married for 61 years, with Eleanor accompanying her husband on many film sets throughout his long life.

In 1992, he won a Primetime Emmy Award for his writing Hearts of Darkness : The Filmmaker’s Apocalypseon the set of the current cult film Apocalypse Now by Francis Ford Coppola, in 1979.

Eleanor Coppola has also made several other films about her family films. He recently edited his daughter Sofia Coppola’s film adaptation, Marie Antoinettereleased in 2006.

The first fictional film made at the age of 80

Eleanor Coppola also directed fiction, at the age of 80, and romance Paris Can Wait, a 2016 film starring Diane Lane. He also wrote the screenplay for this film which follows the wife of a successful film producer as she crosses France with a chauffeur.

His second feature film, Love is Lovereleased in 2020, it was selected for the Tribeca Film Festival and the Deauville American Film Festival.

Along with her husband, she was the head of one of Hollywood’s most successful film-making families. His children Roman Coppola (screenwriter and producer of several Wes Anderson films) and Sofia Coppola (Virgin Suicide, Lost in Translation) are both successful filmmakers.

Shortly before her death, Eleanor Coppola had finished writing her third book, a memoir. In the text, he specifically writes: “I’m grateful for how my unexpected life unfolded and pulled me in so many wonderful ways and took me in so many ways beyond my wildest imagination”.

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