Eleanor Coppola, matriarch of the Coppola filmmaking family, dies at 87

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Eleanor Coppola, who documented the making of some of husband Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic films and raised a family of filmmakers, has died at 87.

Eleanor Coppola, who documented the making of some of husband Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic films, including the infamously tortured production of “Apocalypse Now,” and who raised a family of filmmakers, has died. She was 87. Coppola died Friday at home in Rutherford, Calif., her family announced in a statement. Eleanor, who grew up in Orange County, met Francis while working as an assistant art director on his directorial debut, the Roger Corman-produced 1963 horror film “Dementia 13.

Martin Sheen had a heart attack. A member of the construction crew died. Eleanor documented much of the chaos in what would become one of the most famous making-of films about moviemaking, 1991’s “Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse.” “I was just trying to keep myself occupied with something to do because we were out there for so long,” Eleanor told CNN in 1991.

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