Operating outside the studio system, the husband-and-wife team of John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands created indelible portraits of working-class strivers and...
Gena Rowlands, whose appearances in A Woman Under the Influence, Gloria and The Notebook were among her many celebrated collaborations with her late husband, John Cassavetes, and their son, Nick, died Wednesday at her home in Indian Wells.were among her many celebrated collaborations with her late husband, John Cassavetes, and their son, Nick, died Wednesday at her home in Indian Wells after a yearslong battle with Alzheimer’s disease. She was 94.
Together they were hailed as independent-cinema royalty, operating outside the controlling and predictable studio system. The couple mortgaged their Hollywood Hills home again and again to finance his films, she said, in an effort to remain independent from the tight reins of Hollywood.
FILE - Actor Gena Rowlands poses for a photo in Los Angeles on Sept., 21, 1957. Rowlands is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, says her son, the filmmaker Nick Cassavetes. Cassavetes, in an interview with Entertainment Weekly published Tuesday, says Rowlands has had Alzheimer’s for five years. Rowlands attended the University of Wisconsin before moving to New York City to study drama. She met John Cassavetes after an audition for the American Academy at Carnegie Hall.
U.S. director Nick Cassavetes, son of director John Cassavetes poses with his sister Xan Cassavetes, from left, his daughter Gena Cassavetes, his mother Gena Rowlands, and his sister Zoe, before the screening of his film "The Notebook" on Sept. 5, 2004, at the 30th American film Festival of Deauville, in Normandy., her son’s 2004 adaptation of the weepy Nicholas Sparks love story starring Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling.interview.
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