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Daily | Passages | Harris, Mark, Bhargava
In today's roundup, we catch up with remembrances of costume designer Julie Harris, who worked with Richard Lester on his Beatles movies, A Hard Day’s Night (1964) and Help! (1965), and won an Oscar for her work on John Schlesinger’s Darling (1965); Anne Meara, remembered for her comedic turns with Jerry Stiller and as the mother of Ben Stiller; director Prashant Bhargava; photographer Mary Ellen Mark; noir actor Wally Cassell; Mildred Pierce star John Compton; Betsy Palmer, known to most as the mother of Jason Voorhees in the Friday the 13th movies; Gill Dennis, co-writer of the screenplay for the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line; and composer Robert Drasnin. » - David Hudson...
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  • 6/2/2015
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Daily | Passages | Harris, Mark, Bhargava
In today's roundup, we catch up with remembrances of costume designer Julie Harris, who worked with Richard Lester on his Beatles movies, A Hard Day’s Night (1964) and Help! (1965), and won an Oscar for her work on John Schlesinger’s Darling (1965); Anne Meara, remembered for her comedic turns with Jerry Stiller and as the mother of Ben Stiller; director Prashant Bhargava; photographer Mary Ellen Mark; noir actor Wally Cassell; Mildred Pierce star John Compton; Betsy Palmer, known to most as the mother of Jason Voorhees in the Friday the 13th movies; Gill Dennis, co-writer of the screenplay for the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line; and composer Robert Drasnin. » - David Hudson...
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  • 6/2/2015
  • Keyframe
John Compton
John Compton, Actor in 'Mildred Pierce' and 'The D.A.’s Man,' Dies at 91
John Compton
John Compton, who appeared in the classic 1945 melodrama Mildred Pierce and then starred in a Jack Webb-produced TV crime series, The D.A.’s Man, has died. He was 91. Compton died May 12 of natural causes at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, his niece, Susan Long, told The Hollywood Reporter. Compton also had small roles in such prominent pictures as Pride of the Marines (1945), starring John Garfield; San Antonio (1945), with Errol Flynn; Night and Day (1946), starring Cary Grant; and The Ten Commandments (1956), directed by Cecil B. DeMille. He appeared opposite Jane

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  • 5/18/2015
  • by Mike Barnes
  • The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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