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  Gena Rowlands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gena Rowlands (born June 19, 1930) is an American actress.
Born Virginia Cathryn Rowlands in Cambria, Wisconsin, she attended the University of Wisconsin.
Rowlands appeared in Broadway in the late 1950s, and made her film debut in The High Cost of Loving in 1958.
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The lauded 71-year-old Rowlands is now known for her eclectic mix of theater, film and TV performances as mothers, grandmothers and other age-wise roles, while Stone became famous for slinky skirts and uncrossing her legs.
Gena Rowlands spoke Thursday afternoon at the University of Virginia in the opening event of the Virginia Film Festival, of which she is headlining.
Rowlands spoke about what it was like to collaborate with her late husband in films, the importance of film festivals, and spoke candidly on the birth of film — and the death of theater.
www.richmond.com /printer.cfm?article=1678177   (579 words)

  
 Gena Rowlands, Queen of Independent Film
Rowlands explained how their collaborations were designed and produced often to get other films out of the vault waiting for release or to finance other impending projects.
Rowlands is brilliant in exemplifying this style throughout A Woman Under the Influence, a film she claimed she could talk about for days.
Gena Rowlands claims her choice of roles from gangster molls to vulnerable housewifes had a lot to do with the magnificent parts written for her by John Cassavetes.
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 Gena Rowlands -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Gena Rowlands (born June 19, 1936) is an (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American actress.
Born Virginia Cathryn Rowlands in (Click link for more info and facts about Cambria, Wisconsin) Cambria, Wisconsin, she attended the (A university in Madison, Wisconsin) University of Wisconsin.
Rowlands appeared in (A street in Manhattan that passes through Times Square; famous for its theaters) Broadway in the late (The decade from 1950 to 1959) 1950s, and made her film debut in The High Cost of Loving in 1958.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/ge/gena_rowlands.htm   (294 words)

  
 Gena Rowlands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Gena Rowlands delivers a speech in John Cassavetes's Minnie and Moskowitz (1971) that perfectly captures her -- and Cassavetes's -- alternative approach to cinema.
But by choosing to be selective of scripts and directors, Rowlands has managed to establish a consistent sensibility across most of her films, and to play strong female characters far more often than is the norm.
American Film named Rowlands one of "Ten Tough Broads" in 1983, perhaps responding to the startling moment in Cassavetes's Gloria (1980) when her ex-gun-moll character, again pushed to the breaking point, unloads a pistol-ful of bullets on some Mafia gangsters to protect a six-year-old orphan -- whom she doesn't much like.
www.bostonphoenix.com /alt1/archive/movies/reviews/09-05-96/GENA_ROWLANDS.html   (583 words)

  
 Interview - Gena Rowlands for "The Skeleton Key"
New Orleans, LA Gena Rowlands is a true survivor, from her heyday working with husband John Cassavetes at a time when independent film was not as 'hip' as it is today.
The excellent response to her performance as the deaf-mute wife of a detective on the 1961 TV series 87th Precinct sparked a grass-roots campaign to have Rowlands appear on the series on a weekly basis, but her film commitments were such that she couldn't be confined to any one part for very long.
Rowlands recently won acclaim for her work with James Garner in Nick Cassavetes' The Notebook, and now, in The Skeleton Key, Rowlands gives a delicious performance as a woman looking after her stroke-disabled husband, who may not quite be who she appears to be.
www.darkhorizons.com /news05/skey2.php   (1546 words)

  
 Rowlands's response to the Faces discovery
Rowlands is devoted to perpetuating a myth about her husband's life and conduct and is resentful of Prof.
To read another statement about why Gena Rowlands or anyone else who acted in Cassavetes' films or someone who knew Cassavetes is not the ultimate authority on the meaning of his work or on how it should be cared for or preserved, click here.
Rowlands to give him permission to announce the discovery and agree to allow him to write about the film and, if possible, make it available for scholarly study by others.
people.bu.edu /rcarney/discoveries/discrowlandsfaces.shtml   (1037 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: DVD: Woman Under The Influence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Gena Rowlands is brilliant as an L.A. housewife knuckling under to schizophrenia, with Peter Falk as her equally befuddled husband.
Gena Rowlands is just absolutely wonderful and touching as the blue collar, suburban housewife, Mabel, steadily losing her grip on life and reality.
As many probably know, Gena Rowlands was married to Casavettes and he utilized her in many of his films, all to his and his audience's great advantage.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/6304864159   (1156 words)

  
 Gena_rowlands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Gena Rowlands and Sandy Dennis--Legends : I think I may have reviewed the video version of this, but it won't hurt to review it again.
: Gena Rowlands is just absolutely wonderful and touching as the blue collar, suburban housewife, Mabel, steadily losing her grip on life and reality.
Under-written, over-indulgent : Although Gena Rowland's portrayal of a mentally fragile woman is highly creative and physical, the movie itself strikes me as more an exercise of techniques rather than a fully.developed drama...
dvd.mysic.ca /Actor/Gena_Rowlands   (1109 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Gena Rowlands
Gloria is a 1980 film which tells the story of a gangsters girlfriend who goes on the run with a young boy who is being hunted by the mob for information he may or may not have.
Hysterical Blindness is a made-for-HBO movie by Mira Nair and starring Gena Rowlands, Uma Thurman, Juliette Lewis and Ben Gazzarra.
She was most recently seen in The Notebook, which was directed by her son, Nick Cassavetes and co-starred James Garner, Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams; in 2005, she appeared opposite Kate Hudson, Peter Sarsgaard and John Hurt in the gothic thriller "The Skeleton Key".
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Gena-Rowlands   (942 words)

  
 Gena Rowlands
Virginia Cathryn Rowlands was born in Cambria, Wisconsin, on 19 June 1930.
Her father, Edwin Myrwyn Rowlands, was vice-president of the local bank, a Wisconsin state assemblyman and a state senator.
Gena had a brother, David, who lived in San Francisco as pilot in the Navy.
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 MTV.com - Movies - Gena Rowlands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
An alumnus of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Wisconsin-born actress Gena Rowlands entered the Broadway talent pool in 1952.
Rowlands went on to earn Oscar nominations for her work in two of her husband's other films, A Woman Under the Influence (1974) and Gloria (1980).
In 1985, she earned an Emmy nomination for her role in the powerful AIDS drama An Early Frost, and has won Emmys for her performances in The Betty Ford Story (1987) and Face of a Stranger (1991).
www.mtv.com /movies/person/54581/bio.jhtml   (478 words)

  
 Variety.com - Cinematheque sponsors Gena Rowlands tribute
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Actress Gena Rowlands is the subject of a weekend tribute by the American Cinematheque, beginning today.
Rowlands is most widely known for her collaborations with her late husband, John Cassavetes.
www.variety.com /article/VR110363?categoryid=13&cs=1   (221 words)

  
 A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes): Gena Rowlands Peter Falk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
As her marriage flounders, we are supposed to watch poor, lonely Mabel disintegrate before our eyes, but what we see instead is a woman who is already pretty crazy to begin with—what with assorted ticks, trips to sleazy Hollywood bars, and an inexplicable marriage to the brutish, obnoxious Nick (Peter Falk).
Gena Rowlands was John Cassavetes's wife from 1954 to his death in February 1989.
Gena Rowlands, whose character loses her sense of reality during the course of the film, also talked about going mad to the press.
www.altfg.com /Reviews/Womanundertheinfluence.htm   (1226 words)

  
 Gena Rowlands - CinemaReview.com....Cast/Crew
GENA ROWLANDS (Violet) is recognized as an actress of rare accomplishment and talent.
Prior to this, Gena received an Emmy nomination for her starring role in CBS’ The Color of Love: Jacey’s Story, and starred in The Weekend, a film for Strand Releasing, as well as Hallmark’s Hall of Fame’s Grace and Glorie and The Mighty, Playing by Heart, Hope Floats and Paulie.
Gena was born in Cambria, Wisconsin, on June 19.
www.cinemareview.com /castcrew.asp?id=975   (371 words)

  
 Gena Rowlands
Gena Rowlands is an American actress, recognized for roles as tough, boozy, and/or traumatized women, and for her long professional collaboration with her husband, art-house filmmaker John Cassavetes.
Rowlands dropped out of college after a big argument with her parents (about what, remains unclear) and moved to New York, where she supported herself by working part-time at a movie theater.
Sans husband, Rowlands later played Mom to Joan Jett and Michael J. Fox in Light of Day, and mothered one of TV's first AIDS deaths in the six-hanky drama An Early Frost.
www.nndb.com /people/907/000023838   (305 words)

  
 Gena Rowlands
Gena Rowlands, the 1996 National Board of Review Career Achievement Award winner, is one of our most revered actresses.
Rowlands in her suite at the Wyndham Hotel in New York.
She has a very raucous laugh and she was laughing, and John was there with Gena and he was laughing.
www.nbrmp.org /features/GenaRowlands.cfm   (3820 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Video: Gloria [IMPORT]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In this one, he casts a wonderfully hard-boiled Gena Rowlands as the title character: a former Mob moll who picked up a few tricks along the way.
Though Cassavetes lets his actors have a little too much rein, it pays off in the complex--and surprisingly funny--performance by Rowlands as an unlikely nanny who discovers that, though she is an unwilling bodyguard, she actually learns to care for the tough little guy she's trying to keep out of harm's way.
Gena Rowlands goes all the way with this character, screaming at mobsters such lines as "You let a woman beat you" "uh." Despite such dialogue or maybe because of it(and the unique, progressive, and "classy" quality of this production) this film represents an overall entertaining experience.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/6302799112   (597 words)

  
 IGN: Interview: Gena Rowlands and John Hurt
Rowlands has long since been known as one of the most versatile actresses around.
GENA ROWLANDS: I always do make a back story for myself, but I'm not sure how necessary it is. I just like to.
Gena, how do you talk about this character without giving anything away.
filmforce.ign.com /articles/641/641020p1.html   (802 words)

  
 Gena Rowlands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Rowlands later took over that stage role and has worked steadily ever since.
She has twice been nominated for OscarsĀ® for Gloria (1980) and A Woman Under the Influence (1974), won two Emmys for the TV movies Face of a Stranger (1991) and The Betty Ford Story (1987), and two Golden Globes for Gloria (1980) and Opening Night (1977).
Rowlands was married to actor/director/screenwriter John Cassavetes for 35 years, until his death in 1989.
www.tribute.ca /all_actors/bios/1096.htm   (128 words)

  
 Gena Rowlands @ Filmbug   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Gena Rowlands is recognized internationally as an actress of rare accomplishment and talent, and finds herself constantly in demand in theater, film and on television.
Prior to this, Rowlands received an Emmy nomination for her starring role in CBS's The Color of Love: Jacey's Story.
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 Gena Rowlands News
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Gena Rowlands stars in Woody Allen's underrated Bergman-influenced drama.
The final nail in the coffin of Lindsay Lohan's Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen is this smart high school satire inspired by Rosalind Wiseman's...
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 Favorite Things : Fine Living Selects : Gena Rowlands Movies : Fine Living
Rowlands is Marion Post, a philosophy professor subletting an apartment to work on her latest book.
A wonderfully hard-boiled Rowlands is the title character- a former mob moll who's picked up a few tricks along the way.
Rowlands is Mabel, a housewife in the throes of a breakdown.
www.fineliving.com /fine/favorite_things_selects/text/0,1663,FINE_8073_10510,00.html   (293 words)

  
 BBC - Movies - review - The Skeleton Key
Nursing John Hurt's stroke victim under the stern glare of Gena Rowlands, she commits to a movie that doesn't really deserve the effort.
The Skeleton Key wants to be Angelheart blended with The Ring (a modest ambition), but it lacks the sultry atmosphere of the former or the efficient scare scenes of the latter.
But director Iain Softley doesn't appear to have faith in her or the story as he keeps his camera restless, quick and superficial: all slo-mo and fast forwards when it needs to creep and brood.
www.bbc.co.uk /films/2005/07/21/the_skeleton_key_2005_review.shtml   (345 words)

  
 The Gena Rowlands Band
Please welcome the Gena Rowlands Band's first full-length release into this cruel world: "La Merde et Les Etoiles" will be available in stores and from iTunes on JANUARY 25, 2005.
The Gena Rowlands Band is all about telling the real story.
But January will see the release of the Gena Rowlands Band's "La Merde et Les Etoiles." This disc has been years in the making.
genarowlandsband.blogspot.com   (1954 words)

  
 Gena Rowlands Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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 Unhook the Stars / 1996 / film review / Nick Cassavetes / Gena Rowlands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
With Gena Rowlands (Mildred Hawks), Marisa Tomei (Monica Warren), Gérard Depardieu (Big Tommy), Jake Lloyd (Jake 'J.J.' Warren), Moira Kelly (Annie Hawks), David Sherrill (Ethan Hawks).
Gena Rowlands’ performance as Mildred is a magnificent tour-de-force, perfectly contrasted by Marisa Tomei’s hyperactive, neurotic Monica, who manages to use the “F” word more times than you have thought physically possible.
The strong American line-up is joined by the legendary French actor Gérard Depardieu, playing a Canadian lorry driver, bringing a touch of dramatic intensity to some memorable moments of sombre reflection.
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 NPR : Actress GENA ROWLANDS (jen-ah
Fresh Air from WHYY, December 2, 1996 · Actress GENA ROWLANDS (jen-ah...roe-lenz).
She won acclaim for her performance in "A Woman Under the Influence" and "Gloria." ROWLANDS collaborated with her late husband, actor/screenwriter/and director, John Cassavetes for thirty years.
ROWLANDS is starring in the new film "Unhook the Stars"(Miramax Films) in which she plays Mildred, a middle-aged woman who finds herself at a crucial turning point in her life.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1109416   (153 words)

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