Frank Perry

Frank Perry
Date of birth:
1930
Date of death:
1995
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Frank Perry was an American stage and film director, producer and screenwriter. Perry is most regarded for his character studies involving a dysfunctional family such as that in his wife's script of the Sue Kaufman novel Diary of a Mad Housewife that earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination for Carrie Snodgress and his 1972 film Play It As It Lays starring Tuesday Weld that brought her a Golden Globe Best Actress nomination. Both of these films Perry produced and directed, but he is probably best remembered for directing the controversial 1981 bio-drama Mommie Dearest, an adaptation of a biography by actress Joan Crawford's adoptive daughter, which portrayed the famous movie starlet as a cruel, sadistic tyrant.

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