KIM HUNTER, 1922-2002
Kim Hunter, the versatile, distinguished actress who won the Supporting Actress Academy Award for her portrayal as the long-suffering Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) and appeared as Dr. Zira in three Planet of the Apes movies, died in her Greenwich Village apartment from an apparent heart attack on September 11, 2002. She was 79.
Born Janet Cole in Detroit on November 12, 1922, where her mother was a concert pianist, she made her professional debut at 17 with a small theatre company in Miami. She gained notice immediately with her strong voice and alluring presence, and eventually studied at the Actors' Studio in New York.
She made a striking film debut in an eerie, low-budget RKO horror film, The Seventh Victim (1943), produced by Val Lewton. She played a similar ingenue role in another stylish cult flick, When Strangers Meet (1944) - a film directed by William Castle and notable for featuring Robert Mitchum in one of his first starring roles. Hunter's big break came two years later when Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger cast her in their splendid romantic fantasy, Stairway to Heaven (1946).
Despite her growing popularity as a screen actress, Hunter returned to the stage to make her Broadway debut as Stella in Tennessee Williams'A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). When Elia Kazan adapted the production for the silver screen, she continued her role as Stella opposite Marlon Brando, and won an Oscar as best supporting actress. A few more film roles followed, but sadly her screen career entered a lull in the late 1950s, after Hunter, a liberal Democrat, was listed as a communist sympathizer by Red Channels, a red-hunting booklet that influenced hiring by studios and the Television networks. Kim was blacklisted from both mediums despite never having been labeled a Communist, yet as a strong believer in civil rights she signed a lot of petitions and was a sponsor of a 1949 World Peace Conference in New York. She was widely praised in the industry for her testimony to the New York Supreme Court in 1962 against the publishers of Red Channels, and helped pave the way for clearance of many performers unjustly accused of Communist associations.
Hunter spent the next few years on the stage and didn't make a strong impression again in films until she was cast as Dr. Zira in the Planet of the Apes (1968), as a simian psychiatrist in the classic science fiction film. The success of that film encouraged her to continue playing the same character in two back-to-back sequels - Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) and Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971). Hunter spent the remainder of her career on the stage and television, but she a terrific cameo role in Clint Eastwood's Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil (1997), one of her last films. She is survived by her daughter Kathryn, from her first marriage to William Baldwin, and her son Sean, from her marriage to actor and producer Robert Emmett.
By Michael T. Toole
TCM REMEMBERS J. LEE THOMPSON, 1914 - 2002
Oscar-nominated director J. Lee Thompson died August 30th at the age of 88. Though he worked in several genres, Thompson was best-known for his action films. Thompson was born in Bristol England on August 1, 1914. After graduating from college he became a playwright and it was the appearance of one of his plays on London's famous West End that got him noticed by the British film studio, Elstree. His first filmed script was The Pride of Folly in 1937 and others appeared sporadically until his career was side-tracked during the war when Thompson served in the RAF as a B-29 tail gunner. (He also reportedly worked as a dialogue coach on Hitchcock's Jamaica Inn, 1939.) Thompson's directorial debut came in 1950 when he adapted his own play Double Error to the screen as Murder Without Crime. Throughout the decade he directed a variety of dramas and comedies until hitting it big in 1958 with Ice Cold in Alex (released in the US minus 50 minutes under the title Desert Attack). It was nominated for three BAFTAs and was enough of a commercial success that Thompson landed the film that made his career: The Guns of Navarone (1961). This enormous international hit snagged Thompson an Oscar nomination for Best Director. He immediately followed that with the original Cape Fear (1962) and his reputation was set. Though Thompson remained active almost three more decades he didn't reach that level again. He worked on Westerns (Mackenna's Gold, 1969), horror films (Eye of the Devil, 1967), literary adaptations (Huckleberry Finn, 1974) and others. During this time, Thompson directed two Planet of the Apes sequels but was kept most busy working with Charles Bronson, for whom he directed nine films. Thompson's last film was in 1989.
KATRIN CARTLIDGE, 1961 - 2002
The news of actress Katrin Cartlidge's death at the age of 41 has come as a shock. It's not just the age but the thought that even though Cartlidge was already a major actress--despite a slender filmography--she held out the promise of even greater work, a promise that so few artists of any type can make. "Fearless" is perhaps the word most often used to describe Cartlidge but emotions are never enough for an actor; much more is required. Director Mike Leigh said she had "the objective eye of an artist" while remarking on her "her deep-seated suspicion of all forms of woolly thinking and received ideas."
Cartlidge was born in London on May 15, 1961. Her first acting work was on the stage, in tiny independent theatres before she was selected by Peter Gill for the National Theatre. Cartlidge also worked as a dresser at the Royal Court where she later made one of her final stage appearances. She began appearing in the popular British TV series Brookside before making her first film in 1985, Sacred Hearts. A small role in the Robbie Coltrane-Rik Mayall vehicle Eat the Rich (1987) followed before Cartlidge had her first leading role in Mike Leigh's scathing Naked (1993).
Cartlidge never took a safe approach in her films. She told The Guardian that "I try to work with film-makers who I feel will produce something original, revealing and provoking. If something provokes a reaction, it's well worth doing." You can see this in her choice of projects. Before the Rain (1994) dramatized violence in Macedonia in the wake of the Yugoslavian break-up and made Cartlidge something of a star in the area. She appeared in Lars Von Trier's controversial look at redemption, Breaking the Waves (1996), Leigh's sharply detailed story of aging friends Career Girls (1997), as one of Jack the Ripper's victims in From Hell (2001), as a call girl trying to leave the business in Clair Dolan (1998) and in the Oscar-winning film about Bosnia-Herzegovina, No Man's Land (2001). Her last work included a BBC adaptation of Crime and Punishment (2002), playing Salvador Dali's wife Gala in the BBC comedy-drama Surrealissimo (2002) and an appearance in Rosanna Arquette's directorial debut, Searching for Debra Winger (also 2002), a documentary about women in the film industry.
Cartlidge died September 7th from septicaemia brought on by pneumonia.
By Lang Thompson
A Price Above Rubies
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Sonia, both attractive and self-determined, supresses her wandering soul under a gentle marriage to the promising young scholar Mendel and their infant son. Upon Mendel's appointment to a prestigious Yeshiva, the young family is folded into Brooklyn's Hasidic community. Sonia moves uncomfortably wit
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Boaz Yakin
Director
Renée Zellweger
Sonia
Christopher Eccleston
Sender
Julianna Margulies
Rachel
Allen Payne
Ramon
Glenn Fitzgerald
Mendel
Film Details
Also Known As
Illusion av lycka, Price Above Rubies, Sonia Horowitz
MPAA Rating
Genre
Drama
Release Date
1998
Production Company
Axium International; Balsmeyer & Everett Inc; Cinema Research Corporation; Deluxe Entertainment Services Group; Duart Film And Video; Eastman Kodak; Film4 Productions; Great Northern/ Reiff & Associates; Greenestreet Films; Joann Kane Music Service; Lawrence Bender Productions; Lichter, Grossman, Nichols, Adler & Feldman, Inc.; MIRAMAX; Marshall/Plumb Research Associates, Inc.; New York City Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting; New York City Police Department Movie And Tv Unit; Owen & Desalvo Company; Pacific Title & Art Studio; Panavision, Ltd.; Pandora Films; Pandora Films
Distribution Company
MIRAMAX; Cts; Film4 Productions; Filmfour; Filmladen Gmbh; Lucky Red; MIRAMAX; Miramax Home Entertainment; Tristar Pictures
Location
New York City, New York, USA; Brooklyn, New York, USA
Technical Specs
Duration
2h
Synopsis
Sonia, both attractive and self-determined, supresses her wandering soul under a gentle marriage to the promising young scholar Mendel and their infant son. Upon Mendel's appointment to a prestigious Yeshiva, the young family is folded into Brooklyn's Hasidic community. Sonia moves uncomfortably within the crowded community; strangely solitary but for the companionship an omnipresent Beggar Woman, and the aparition of her young brother Yossi, who died during their childhood. Mendel's close-knit family includes his firmly grounded sister Rachel and an entreprenurial brother, Sender. While the cloistered community fuses Sonia into its tapestry, Sender recognizes that Sonia shares his common desire to be a free-spirit. They strike-up an affair as Sender encourages her independence with a position at his select clientelle jewelry shop. As Sonia bests her competition, enchants and mingles with her customers, she finds a greater part of herself in a world that threatens both her security and future.
Director
Boaz Yakin
Director
Cast
Renée Zellweger
Sonia
Christopher Eccleston
Sender
Julianna Margulies
Rachel
Allen Payne
Ramon
Glenn Fitzgerald
Mendel
Kim Hunter
Rebbitzn
John Randolph
Rebbe
Kathleen Chalfant
Beggar Woman
Peter Jacobson
Schmuel
Edie Falco
Felga
Tim Jerome
Dr Bauer
Phyllis Newman
Mrs Gelbart
Joyce Reehling
Shaindy
Shelton Dane
Yossi
Jackie Ryan
Young Sonia
Faran Tahir
Hrundi Kapoor
Martin Shakar
Mr Berman
Teodorina Bello
Mrs Garcia
Glenn Flesher
Chief Gabbal
Adam Dannheisser
Young Gabbal No 1
Stephen Singer
Gabbal No 2
Marvin Einhorn
Gabbal No 3
Mark Zimmerman
Doctor
Richard Lifshutz
The Moel
David Deblinger
Barush
Sam Jennings
Heshle
Erin Rakow
Tsipi
Asher Tabak
Yechlel
Allen Swift
Mr Fishbeln
Daryl Edwards
Nelson
Peter Slutsker
Mr Sugarman
Lauren Klein
Sonia'S Mother
Tonye Patano
Earring Woman
Don Wallace
Ty
Asia Minor
Homegirl
Roseanna Plasencia
Homegirl No 2
Jerry Matz
Mr Engelberg
Michael Stuhlbarg
Karen Contreras
Young Woman
Wai Ching Ho
Lady Vendor
Mel Duane Gionson
Paranoid Vendor
Paul J Q Lee
Smoooth Vendor
Leyla Aalam
Israeli Woman
Christopher Detitta
Leadman
Timothy Jerome
Crew
Douglas Aibel
Casting
Pembrooke Andrews
Dialog Assistant
Gregg Apirian
2nd Assistant Editor
William Baker
Driver (Rops)
Lesley Barber
Music
Guillermo Baretto
Song ("Yo Siempre Oddara")
Richard Battista
Driver (Rip)
Lawrence Bender
Producer
Alexander Berberich
Location Assistant
Jerome Best
Other
Jordan Beswick
Casting Associates
Tom Betterton
Location Scout
Peter Betulia
Construction Key Grip
Michael Betzag
Best Boy Grip
John Billeci
Other
Corey Bobker
Production Assistant
Stuart Brawley
Music Engineer
Adam Brightman
Line Producer
Robert Brown
Driver
Jane Bunnett
Song
Jane Bunnett
Song Performer ("Yo Siempre Oddara")
Seth Burch
Location Manager
Gary Burritt
Negative Cutter
Lieutenant Joseph Byrne
Special Thanks (Commanding Officer--New York Police Department Movie And Tv Unit)
John Cambria
1st Assistant Camera
Michael Cambria
2nd Assistant Camera
John Carrabino
Special Thanks
Hunter Carson
Set Production Assistant
Andrew Casey
Steadicam Operator
Dennis Lee Causey
Set Dresser
John Chandler
Foley Editor
Jake Chipps
Other
Kerry Clark
Other
Rodney Clark
Carpenter
Arthur Coburn
Editor
Robert A Conroy
Construction Grip
Jason Cramer
Post-Production Accountant (Owen & Desalvo Co)
Robert Currie
On-Set Dresser
James J Curry
Carpenter
Paul Curtis
Dialog Editor
Tracey D'arcy
Post-Production Coordinator
Lisa Davidowitz
Special Thanks
Denise T Davidson
Assistant (To Ellen Lutter)
John Diemer
Special Thanks
Dan Diprima
Music Editor
Pete Dominick
Set Production Assistant
Damien Donohue
Company Grip
Joe Donohue
Grip
John K Donohue
Dolly Grip
Kevin Doyle
Special Thanks
Ronald Dennis Drogan
Driver (Axi Van)
Maureen Duffy
Other
Ann Duval
Legal Services (Lighter Grossman Nichols & Adler Inc)
Robert Dwyer
Driver (Amera)
Joe Facey
Craft Service
Cyd Fenwick
Scenic Artist
John B Finn
Payroll Accountant
Rossana Fiore
Camera Scenic Artist
Robert Fitzgerald
Supervising Sound Editor
Robert Fitzgerald
Sound Effects Editor
Elizabeth Flaum
Sound Effects Editor
Scott Fleischer
Special Thanks (Panavision/New York)
John J Flugel
Set Dresser
Leo Fotopoulos
Driver Ho (Oneywagon)
Joann Fregalette Jansen
Co-Producer
Mary Gambardella
Script Supervisor
Ellen Gannon
Production Coordinator
Abbot Genser
Still Photographer
Shaun Gilbert
Other
Laura G Gillen
Scenic Artist
Joyce Goldman
Other
Henry Goldscher
Other
Elizabeth Goodall
Scenic Artist
Carlos K Goodman
Legal Services (Lighter Grossman Nichols & Adler Inc)
Kim Green
Special Thanks
Kevin P Griffin
Driver (Wing)
Alicia Haldenwang
Production Assistant
Marlus C Harding
Assistant Accountant
Kali Rashad Harrison
Set Production Assistant
Chris Hayes
Camera Operator
Ann Haywood
Charge Scenic Artist
Brent Haywood
Construction Coordinator
Janet Henry
Location Assistant
Wayne Herndon
Key Hairstylist
Eddie Herschler
Other
Phil Hetos
Color Timer
Lori Hicks
Key Makeup Artist
Bernard Hiller
Other
Winnie Hiller
Other
Adam Holender
Director Of Photography
Adam Holender
Dp/Cinematographer
Elaine Houseman
Sculptures Provider
Duncan Hoxworth
Stand-By Carpenter
Alice Hughes
Special Thanks (Regal Company)
Jesus Alemanys Icabanismoi
Song Performer ("Aprovecha")
Sean Kenelly
Dialog Assistant
Alan Kerr
Foley Artist
Tyler Kim
Assistant Property Master
Julie Kirkman
Special Thanks
Barbara Koplin
Special Thanks
Stephen Koplin
Special Thanks
Julius Kozlowski
Scenic Artist
Barbara Krauthamer
Wardrobe Supervisor
Ken Kugler
Music Conductor
Kevin Ladson
Property Master
Rick Lange
Second 2nd Assistant Director
Robert Lansing
Driver- (Lecric)
Jack Lechner
Special Thanks
Dan Leigh
Production Designer
Geroge Leong
Boom Operator
John Leonidas
Transportation Captain
Sally Lesser
Costume Shopper
Jason Lezama
Foley Editor
Jason Lezama
Adr Recordist
Marco Londoner
2nd Assistant Director
Ulf Loven
Carpenter
David Low
Music Contractor
Robin David Ludwig
Ramon'S Studio Consultant
Ellen Lutter
Costume Designer
Lev Mailer
Other
Blacke Maniquis
Assistant Editor (Los Angeles)
Anne Mccabe
Assistant Editor (New York)
Jabbar E Mcdonald
Location Assistant
Michael Mcdonald
Other
Courtney Mcdonnell
Assistant (To Lawrence Bender)
Winsome G. Mckoy
Wardrobe Supervisor
Tory Metzger
Special Thanks
William A Miller
Key Grip
Richard W Murphy
2nd Boom
Margo Myers
Production Accountant
Tom O'donnell
Special Thanks (Local 817 Teamsters)
Neil Orlowski
Key Set Production Assistant
John Ottesen
Special Effects Coordinator
Deborah Owen
Post-Production Accountant (Owen & Desalvo Co)
Rocco Palmieri
Other
Nicole Pennington
Special Thanks
John Penotti
Producer
Dan Perri
Title Sequence Designer & Producer
Linda Phillips
Other
Tom Piechura
Unit Publicist
Jay Richard Piro
Set Production Assistant
Jess Platt
Dialect Consultant
Francis A Porter
Camera Trainee
Jeremy Pratt
Stage Manager
John D Quaglia
Key Hairstylist
Dennis Radesky
Transportation Co-Captain
Sally Rainer
Other
Timothy T Rakoczy
Assistant Sound Editor
Scott Ramsey
Gaffer
Michael Lee Reed
Other
Sergio Reyes
Re-Recording Mixer
Luis Rodriguez
Driver Hair/Make-Up/ (Air/Make-Up/Wardrobe)
Leslie Rollins
Set Decorator
Joan Rowe
Foley Artist
Katie Rowe
Foley Artist
Sean Rowe
Foley Artist
William Sarokin
Sound Mixer
Elyse Scherz
Special Thanks
Mark Schwentner
Best Boy Electric
Gary Scott
Assistant Location Manager
Patricia Reed Scott
Other
B Tennyson Sebastian Iii
Re-Recording Mixer
Eryka Seimon Henderson
Art Department Facilitator
Burton Sharp
Group Adr Coordinator
Burton Sharp
Other
James E Sheridan
Set Production Assistant
Reic Shonz
Special Thanks (Great Northern/Reiff & Associates)
Mike Simpson
Special Thanks
Salvatore Sirico
Carpenter
Jeff Springer
Legal Services (Lighter Grossman Nichols & Adler Inc)
William Stabile
Other
Frederick H Stahly
Adr Editor
Frederick H Stahly
Dialog Editor
Bill Stern
Other
Nick Stevens
Special Thanks
Lee Stollman
Special Thanks
Kenneth Stopsky
Other
John C. Stuver
Dialog Editor
John C. Stuver
Adr Editor
Anita Sum
Production Associate
Jeff Swafford
Assistant (To Lawrence Bender)
Barry Sweeney
Driver Set (Et Dressing)
Glen-bob Sweet
Other
Shane Sweet
Other
Ruthie Tanami
Production Placement
Eric Thompson
Foley Mixer
Mitch Towse
Set Dresser
Dena Trakes
Casting Associates
Jessica Tuchinsky
Special Thanks
Chris Vaccaro
Grip
Craig Vaccaro
Key Rigging Grip
Nick Vaccaro
Grip
Orlando Valle
Song ("Aprovecha")
Jeff Vaughn
Adr Mixer
Heidi Vogel
Post-Production Supervisor
Andrew Vogliano
Other
David Wechsler
1st Assistant Director
Bob Weinstein
Executive Producer
Harvey Weinstein
Executive Producer
Gary Wimmer
Scenic Artist
Film Details
Also Known As
Illusion av lycka, Price Above Rubies, Sonia Horowitz
MPAA Rating
Genre
Drama
Release Date
1998
Production Company
Axium International; Balsmeyer & Everett Inc; Cinema Research Corporation; Deluxe Entertainment Services Group; Duart Film And Video; Eastman Kodak; Film4 Productions; Great Northern/ Reiff & Associates; Greenestreet Films; Joann Kane Music Service; Lawrence Bender Productions; Lichter, Grossman, Nichols, Adler & Feldman, Inc.; MIRAMAX; Marshall/Plumb Research Associates, Inc.; New York City Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting; New York City Police Department Movie And Tv Unit; Owen & Desalvo Company; Pacific Title & Art Studio; Panavision, Ltd.; Pandora Films; Pandora Films
Distribution Company
MIRAMAX; Cts; Film4 Productions; Filmfour; Filmladen Gmbh; Lucky Red; MIRAMAX; Miramax Home Entertainment; Tristar Pictures
Location
New York City, New York, USA; Brooklyn, New York, USA
Technical Specs
Duration
2h
Articles
TCM Remembers - Kim Hunter
TCM Remembers - Kim Hunter
KIM HUNTER, 1922-2002
Kim Hunter, the versatile, distinguished actress who won the Supporting Actress Academy Award for her portrayal as the long-suffering Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) and appeared as Dr. Zira in three Planet of the Apes movies, died in her Greenwich Village apartment from an apparent heart attack on September 11, 2002. She was 79.
Born Janet Cole in Detroit on November 12, 1922, where her mother was a concert pianist, she made her professional debut at 17 with a small theatre company in Miami. She gained notice immediately with her strong voice and alluring presence, and eventually studied at the Actors' Studio in New York.
She made a striking film debut in an eerie, low-budget RKO horror film, The Seventh Victim (1943), produced by Val Lewton. She played a similar ingenue role in another stylish cult flick, When Strangers Meet (1944) - a film directed by William Castle and notable for featuring Robert Mitchum in one of his first starring roles. Hunter's big break came two years later when Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger cast her in their splendid romantic fantasy, Stairway to Heaven (1946).
Despite her growing popularity as a screen actress, Hunter returned to the stage to make her Broadway debut as Stella in Tennessee Williams'A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). When Elia Kazan adapted the production for the silver screen, she continued her role as Stella opposite Marlon Brando, and won an Oscar as best supporting actress. A few more film roles followed, but sadly her screen career entered a lull in the late 1950s, after Hunter, a liberal Democrat, was listed as a communist sympathizer by Red Channels, a red-hunting booklet that influenced hiring by studios and the Television networks. Kim was blacklisted from both mediums despite never having been labeled a Communist, yet as a strong believer in civil rights she signed a lot of petitions and was a sponsor of a 1949 World Peace Conference in New York. She was widely praised in the industry for her testimony to the New York Supreme Court in 1962 against the publishers of Red Channels, and helped pave the way for clearance of many performers unjustly accused of Communist associations.
Hunter spent the next few years on the stage and didn't make a strong impression again in films until she was cast as Dr. Zira in the Planet of the Apes (1968), as a simian psychiatrist in the classic science fiction film. The success of that film encouraged her to continue playing the same character in two back-to-back sequels - Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) and Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971). Hunter spent the remainder of her career on the stage and television, but she a terrific cameo role in Clint Eastwood's Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil (1997), one of her last films. She is survived by her daughter Kathryn, from her first marriage to William Baldwin, and her son Sean, from her marriage to actor and producer Robert Emmett.
By Michael T. Toole
TCM REMEMBERS J. LEE THOMPSON, 1914 - 2002
Oscar-nominated director J. Lee Thompson died August 30th at the age of 88. Though he worked in several genres, Thompson was best-known for his action films. Thompson was born in Bristol England on August 1, 1914. After graduating from college he became a playwright and it was the appearance of one of his plays on London's famous West End that got him noticed by the British film studio, Elstree. His first filmed script was The Pride of Folly in 1937 and others appeared sporadically until his career was side-tracked during the war when Thompson served in the RAF as a B-29 tail gunner. (He also reportedly worked as a dialogue coach on Hitchcock's Jamaica Inn, 1939.) Thompson's directorial debut came in 1950 when he adapted his own play Double Error to the screen as Murder Without Crime. Throughout the decade he directed a variety of dramas and comedies until hitting it big in 1958 with Ice Cold in Alex (released in the US minus 50 minutes under the title Desert Attack). It was nominated for three BAFTAs and was enough of a commercial success that Thompson landed the film that made his career: The Guns of Navarone (1961). This enormous international hit snagged Thompson an Oscar nomination for Best Director. He immediately followed that with the original Cape Fear (1962) and his reputation was set. Though Thompson remained active almost three more decades he didn't reach that level again. He worked on Westerns (Mackenna's Gold, 1969), horror films (Eye of the Devil, 1967), literary adaptations (Huckleberry Finn, 1974) and others. During this time, Thompson directed two Planet of the Apes sequels but was kept most busy working with Charles Bronson, for whom he directed nine films. Thompson's last film was in 1989.
KATRIN CARTLIDGE, 1961 - 2002
The news of actress Katrin Cartlidge's death at the age of 41 has come as a shock. It's not just the age but the thought that even though Cartlidge was already a major actress--despite a slender filmography--she held out the promise of even greater work, a promise that so few artists of any type can make. "Fearless" is perhaps the word most often used to describe Cartlidge but emotions are never enough for an actor; much more is required. Director Mike Leigh said she had "the objective eye of an artist" while remarking on her "her deep-seated suspicion of all forms of woolly thinking and received ideas."
Cartlidge was born in London on May 15, 1961. Her first acting work was on the stage, in tiny independent theatres before she was selected by Peter Gill for the National Theatre. Cartlidge also worked as a dresser at the Royal Court where she later made one of her final stage appearances. She began appearing in the popular British TV series Brookside before making her first film in 1985, Sacred Hearts. A small role in the Robbie Coltrane-Rik Mayall vehicle Eat the Rich (1987) followed before Cartlidge had her first leading role in Mike Leigh's scathing Naked (1993). Cartlidge never took a safe approach in her films. She told The Guardian that "I try to work with film-makers who I feel will produce something original, revealing and provoking. If something provokes a reaction, it's well worth doing." You can see this in her choice of projects. Before the Rain (1994) dramatized violence in Macedonia in the wake of the Yugoslavian break-up and made Cartlidge something of a star in the area. She appeared in Lars Von Trier's controversial look at redemption, Breaking the Waves (1996), Leigh's sharply detailed story of aging friends Career Girls (1997), as one of Jack the Ripper's victims in From Hell (2001), as a call girl trying to leave the business in Clair Dolan (1998) and in the Oscar-winning film about Bosnia-Herzegovina, No Man's Land (2001). Her last work included a BBC adaptation of Crime and Punishment (2002), playing Salvador Dali's wife Gala in the BBC comedy-drama Surrealissimo (2002) and an appearance in Rosanna Arquette's directorial debut, Searching for Debra Winger (also 2002), a documentary about women in the film industry.
Cartlidge died September 7th from septicaemia brought on by pneumonia.
By Lang Thompson
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Expanded Release in United States April 3, 1998
Released in United States 1998
Released in United States January 1998
Released in United States March 27, 1998
Released in United States on Video September 15, 1998
Released in United States September 1998
Released in United States Spring March 25, 1998
Shown at American Film Market (AFM) in Santa Monica, California February 26 - March 4, 1998.
Shown at Deauville Festival of American Film (in competition) September 4-13, 1998.
Began shooting February 10, 1997.
Completed shooting April 7, 1997.
Released in United States 1998 (Shown at American Film Market (AFM) in Santa Monica, California February 26 - March 4, 1998.)
Released in United States January 1998 (Shown at Sundance Film Festival (Premieres) in Park City, Utah January 15-25, 1998.)
Released in United States Spring March 25, 1998
Released in United States March 27, 1998 (Los Angeles)
Expanded Release in United States April 3, 1998
Released in United States September 1998 (Shown at Deauville Festival of American Film (in competition) September 4-13, 1998.)
Released in United States on Video September 15, 1998
