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Martha Coolidge
Birth at
17 August 1946
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Martha Coolidge was born on August 17, 1946 in Nib Haven, Connecticut, USA. She studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and New York University. She then worked for Canadian television, where she directed short films and documentaries. In 1975, she staged her debut feature film "Not At All Attractive Picture", but only in 1983, releasing the film "The Valley Girl", with the participation of young Nicolas Cage, found her creative niche - teenage comedies. Since the late 1980s, Coolidge has worked
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Martha Coolidge was born on August 17, 1946 in Nib Haven, Connecticut, USA. She studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and New York University. She then worked for Canadian television, where she directed short films and documentaries. In 1975, she staged her debut feature film "Not At All Attractive Picture", but only in 1983, releasing the film "The Valley Girl", with the participation of young Nicolas Cage, found her creative niche - teenage comedies. Since the late 1980s, Coolidge has worked for television, and in 1991 she released the film Climbing Rose, for which she was awarded the Independent Spirit Award for Best Director. She continued to work in the comedy genre, including the films Angie (1994) and On the High Seas (1997), successfully collaborated with television, received an Emmy nomination for the biographical film Meet Dorothy Dendridge (1999) and received the Directors Guild Award for participation in the anthology If the Walls Could Talk-2 (2000). Her other films include The Ponder Family (2001) and The Flamingo Rise (2001). In 2004, Martha Coolidge directed the romantic comedy The Prince and Me.