BONNIE AND CLYDE DIRECTOR ARTHUR PENN DEAD AT 88

Director Arthur Penn, whose films include Bonnie and Clyde, The Miracle Worker, Little Big Man, and The Missouri Breaks died Tuesday in New York at age 88. Penn was nominated for an Oscar for Bonnie and Clyde (one of ten nominations for the movie), but lost to Mike Nichols for The Graduate. “It’s hard to […]

FAMED FILM EDITOR DEDE ALLEN DEAD AT 86

Dede Allen, one of Hollywood’s most celebrated film editors, has died in Los Angeles following a stroke at age 86. An extraordinary 1400-word obituary in Sunday’s Los Angeles Times observed that Allen was the first film editor to receive sole credit on a movie for her work on Bonnie and Clyde. Other films included Dog […]