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Martha Coolidge

Highest Rated: 100% Half the Picture (2018)

Lowest Rated: 4% Material Girls (2006)

Birthday: Aug 17, 1946

Birthplace: New Haven, Connecticut, USA

A proficient director of mainstream Hollywood fare, Martha Coolidge began her career in her native Connecticut as a stage actress appearing with a local theater company. While attending the Rhode Island School of Design, she began to make films and found her true calling, turning out six student films. After further studies at NYC's School of Visual Arts and at Columbia University, she landed her first professional gig as a writer and producer of the Canadian daily children's show "Magic Tom." Returning to the USA, Coolidge enrolled at NYU's Institute of Film and Television and went on to turn out several award-winning documentary portraits, including two of family members, "David: On and Off" (1972), about her brother, and "Old Fashioned Woman" (1974), about her grandmother. These, along with the pseudo-documentary "Not a Pretty Picture" (1976) which reconstructed her high school date rape, helped establish her reputation as a filmmaker.

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100% 67% Half the Picture Watchlist
100% 57% Rambling Rose
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100% Not a Pretty Picture
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83% 81% Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
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83% 71% Valley Girl
Watchlist 80% 83% I'll Find You Watchlist 77% 83% Real Genius Watchlist
71% 77% Lost in Yonkers
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60% 83% If These Walls Could Talk 2
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53% 33% Angie
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Martha Coolidge

Martha Coolidge LOST IN YONKERS, director Martha Coolidge, Neil Simon, Mercedes Ruehl on set, 1993, (c)Columbia Pictures THE PRINCE AND ME, Luke Mably, Julia Stiles, Martha Coolidge, 2004, (c) Paramount LOST IN YONKERS, director Martha Coolidge, 1993, (c)Columbia Pictures OUT TO SEA, Director Martha Coolidge, on set, 1997, TM and Copyright (c)20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved. LOST IN YONKERS, Richard Dreyfuss, Martha Coolidge, director and Producer Ray Stark, 1993 RAMBLING ROSE, director Martha Coolidge, 1991, ©New Line Cinema / OUT TO SEA, Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, director Martha Coolidge, on set, 1997, TM and Copyright (c)20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved. RAMBLING ROSE, Laura Dern, director Martha Coolidge, producer Renny Harlin, on set, 1991. ©New Line Cinema View more photos

Filmography

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I'll Find You 80% 83% 2019 Director Half the Picture 100% 67% 2018 Self Nora Roberts' Tribute 48% 2009 Director An American Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong 59% 2009 Director Material Girls 4% 44% 2006 Director 12 Days of Christmas Eve 38% 2004 Director The Prince & Me 29% 59% 2004 Director The Flamingo Rising 33% 2001 Director The Ponder Heart 2001 Director Rip Girls 69% 2000 Executive Producer If These Walls Could Talk 2 60% 83% 2000 Director Introducing Dorothy Dandridge 83% 81% 1999 Director Out to Sea 36% 52% 1997 Director Three Wishes 13% 52% 1995 Director Angie 53% 33% 1994 Director Lost in Yonkers 71% 77% 1993 Director Crazy in Love 27% 1992 Director Rambling Rose 100% 57% 1991 Director Bare Essentials 1991 Director Trenchcoat in Paradise 1989 Director Plain Clothes 61% 1988 Director Real Genius 77% 83% 1985 Director Joy of Sex 47% 1984 Director Valley Girl 83% 71% 1983 Director Not a Pretty Picture 100% 1975 Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Film Editing
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