Remember My Name
11:00 pm - 01:00 am, Saturday, April 4 on Talking Pictures TV (82)
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A woman recently released from prison takes revenge on her ex-husband - the man responsible for the crime which landed her in jail. Satirical drama, starring Geraldine Chaplin, Anthony Perkins and Jeff Goldblum
1978
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Movie/Drama
Cast & Crew
Geraldine Chaplin
(Actor)
Anthony Perkins
(Actor)
Moses Gunn
(Actor)
Jeff Goldblum
(Actor)
Berry Berenson
(Actor)
Alan Rudolph
(Director)
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Did You Know..
Geraldine Chaplin
(Actor)
Born:
July 31, 1944
in
Santa Monica, California
Best Known For:
Being Charlie Chaplin's daughter
Early-life:
Geraldine Leigh Chaplin was born on July 31, 1944, in Santa Monica, California. She's the eldest of eight children from her father Charlie Chaplin's fourth and final marriage to Oona, daughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill. Geraldine was educated at boarding schools in Switzerland and made her screen debut aged eight in Limelight, directed by her dad. She originally wanted to be a ballerina, but eventually decided to concentrate on acting.
Career:
Geraldine began her professional career with roles in European projects, such as Gran Parada and Dernier Soir. Her breakthrough came in David Lean's adaptation of Dr Zhivago in 1965. She appeared in her father's A Countess from Hong Kong two years later. She's rarely been out of work since, mixing mainstream movies and TV shows with arty European fare. Among her more famous projects are The Three Musketeers and its sequels, Nashville, The Mirror Crack'd, My Cousin Rachel, White Mischief, Jane Eyre and Dinotopia. She also played her own grandmother in biopic Chaplin.
Quote:
'I thought it'd be easy to get into the movies as Charlie Chaplin's daughter. And it was. Except I wasn't much good as an actress.'
Trivia:
In 2006, she was awarded the Gold medal by the Spanish Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences.
Anthony Perkins
(Actor)
Born:
April 04, 1932
in
New York
Best Known For:
Playing Norman Bates in Psycho.
Early-life:
Born on April 4, 1932, in New York. His father was stage and film actor Osgood Perkins. Anthony moved to Boston in 1942 and went on to study at Columbia University and Rollins College. He made his film debut in 1953 alongside Spencer Tracy and Jean Simmons in The Actress.
Career:
Perkins was nominated for an Oscar for his second film, Friendly Persuasion (1956), and went on to star in a number of films during the decade, including Fear Strikes Out (1957) and The Matchmaker (1958). His big break came in 1960 when Alfred Hitchcock cast him as Norman Bates in Psycho, a role he would be forever associated with. He would go on to play Norman Bates in two Psycho film sequels and a made-for-TV prequel. Other film credits included Goodbye Again (1961), The Trial (1962), Catch-22 (1970), and The Black Hole (1979). On the stage he was nominated twice for Broadway's Tony Award for Look Homeward, Angel (1958) and Greenwillow (1960.) He died from complications from the Aids virus in 1992.
Quote:
On the famous shower scene in Psycho: 'I was in New York rehearsing for a play when the shower scene was filmed in Hollywood. It is rather strange to go through life being identified with this sequence knowing that it was my double.'
Trivia:
Perkins had a top 30 hit on the Billboard chart with the single Moonlight Swim.
Moses Gunn
(Actor)
Jeff Goldblum
(Actor)
Born:
October 22, 1952
in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Best Known For:
Jurassic Park and The Fly.
Early-life:
Born Jeffrey Lynn Goldblum on October 22, 1952, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of a doctor. He had three siblings, but one of his elder brothers died when Goldblum was 19. After graduating from high school he moved to New York to study acting with famous coach Sanford Meisner, then trained at New York's Neighbourhood Playhouse and the Carnegie Mellon University summer drama programme. An accomplished musician, he studied with Pittsburgh jazz pianist Frank Cunimondo.
Career:
Started out on stage, where he was spotted by filmmaker Robert Altman. He made his big-screen debut in 1974's Death Wish, and worked with Altman on California Split and Nashville. He also had a one-line role in Woody Allen's 1977 Oscar-winning movie Annie Hall. Goldblum has worked steadily ever since in such films as The Right Stuff, The Big Chill, Silverado, The Fly, The Tall Guy, Earth Girls are Easy, Jurassic Park and Independence Day. More recent projects include The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Mini's First Time, Man of the Year and Fay Grim. Away from acting, he plays in a jazz band with RoboCop actor Peter Weller. He starred in short-lived TV series Raines, and in 2009, he returned to TV to star in his second crime series, Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
Quote:
'Thank goodness the films I've done have been good. I feel like some kind of lucky star has, for now, shone on me.'
Trivia:
In 2014, his jazz band did a weekly show at the Carlyle Hotel in New York.
Berry Berenson
(Actor)
Alan Rudolph
(Director)
