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Popi is a 1969 American comedy-drama film directed by Arthur Hiller, and starring Alan Arkin (in the title role) and Rita Moreno. The screenplay was written by Tina Pine and Lester Pine. The film focuses on a Puerto Rican widower struggling to raise his two young sons in the New York City neighborhood of Spanish Harlem.
Alan Wolf Arkin was born in Brooklyn, a borough of New York City, on March 26, 1934, the son of teacher, painter, writer and lyricist David I. Arkin (1906–1980) (co-writer of the hit Three Dog Night song "Black and White"), and his wife, Beatrice (née Wortis) (1909–1991), a teacher.
The cast featured Alan Arkin, Sally Kellerman (as Elaine), Paula Prentiss (as Bobbi), and Renée Taylor (as Jeanette). [5] A Chinese adaptation, starring the husband-wife team of Xu Zheng and Tao Hong (who played all 3 seductresses), was so well received in China that the couple performed the play over 30 times in 2005 and 2006. [6]
A successful folk singer and film director, as well as a versatile actor, Arkin was best known for playing paranoid airman Captain Yossarian in ‘Catch-22’ Alan Arkin: Oscar-winning actor who ...
Columbia Pictures: Arthur Hiller (director); Alan Arkin, Rita Moreno, Lilia Skala: 28 The April Fools: Paramount Pictures: Stuart Rosenberg (director); Jack Lemmon, Catherine Deneuve, Sabrina Scharf: 29 Carry On Camping: The Rank Organisation: Gerald Thomas (director); Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Barbara Windsor: 30 Che! Columbia Pictures
Jewison spoke with Variety about working with Arkin on the comedy masterpiece and his boundless acting abilities. Alan was a close friend, as well as one of my best performing actors. When I found ...
From 1969 to 1979, the festival is non-competitive. August 8 - Kirk Kerkorian buys 24% of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer , becoming the biggest shareholder. August 9 - Tate murders : Sharon Tate , the 26-year-old pregnant actress, model and Roman Polanski 's wife, is murdered by Charles Manson 's " Family " at 10050 Cielo Drive in Beverly Hills ...
Moreno made history as the first Latina to win an Academy Award, receiving the best supporting actress accolade for her role as Anita in the 1961 movie “West Side Story,” a modern retelling of ...