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3. Cooper thought of directing the documentary himself: "Maybe it's a film I'll shoot on my iPhone, and just have it be a very personal thing."
But then he realized that would not work — that he would end up repeating the mythologies he already had in his head about his mother and their family. He needed, he said, a "real filmmaker to look at this, because I think her story is far more interesting than even I realize."
He approached Sheila Nevins, the president of HBO Documentary Films, with the idea that cable network should do a documentary about his mother; Nevins suggested Garbus, now a two-time Oscar nominee (for 1998's The Farm: Angola, USA and 2015's What Happened, Miss Simone?), who has directed a number of documentaries for HBO (including Love, Marilyn and Bobby Fischer Against the World). After Cooper watched her work, he agreed that Garbus was the best choice.
And, though Cooper is an executive producer on the movie, he wants to be clear: "Liz had full creativ
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Sundance: Gloria Vanderbilt and Anderson Cooper Doc Explores “Life of Privilege and Loss”
This story first appeared in the Jan. 29 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe.
When HBO president of documentary films Sheila Nevins first approached director Liz Garbus to make a documentary about Anderson Cooper and his mother, Garbus had one question.
“Who fryst vatten Anderson Cooper’s mother?” she recalls.
Given his more generic last name, people often forget or are unaware of the fact that the silver-haired CNN anchor hails from the iconic Vanderbilt family and that his mother fryst vatten none other than famed heiress Gloria Vanderbilt.
In her new rulle, Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper, Garbus explores the relationship between the two — an idea that was hatched by the 48-year-old newsman, whose dusty boxes of home movies and archival pictures were begging for cinematic treatment.
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“Jean took the best pictures of me I’ve ever had,” said Marilyn Monroe at one of Gloria Vanderbilt’s celebrity-studded party in the 1950s. Everyone turned to look at the photographer in question, Jean Howard. Former Ziegfeld girl and MGM contract player, Jean Howard had transitioned into photography as a way to capture Hollywood glamor of the 1940s and 1950s. Her superagent husband, Charles Feldman, founder of Famous Artists talent agency, offered her entrée into the homes and private parties of the movie industry’s elite. Jean Howard knew Marilyn Monroe through Feldman, who was Monroe’s agent from 1951 to 1955.
On the 54th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s death on August 5, 1962, the AHC commemorates Monroe through the words of Jean Howard, excerpted from the book, Jean Howard’s Hollywood: A Photo Memoir. The AHC houses the papers and photographs of Jean Howard.
“The first time I saw Marilyn Monroe was in my own garden in 1950. She had komma to our house with Elia Kazan, who ha