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Joan Tewkesbury
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Director, Screenwriter Born: April 8, 1936 in Redlands, CA Biography:"Joan Tewksbury" was eleven years old when she enrolled at the American School of Dance, where she studied on an off-and-on basis for the next six years. In 1947, Tewksbury made her first film appearance as a child ballerina in the MGM feature "The Unfinished Dance". She went on to understudy "Mary Martin" in the Broadway musical "Peter Pan", then worked as a stage, film and TV choreographer in the LA area. From 1958 through 1960, she attended drama classes at USC. In 1971, she went to work as a script supervisor for filmmaker "Robert Altman". Under his guidance, she matriculated to co-scripter of "Thieves Like Us" (1974), finally achieving solo screenplay credit for "Nashville" (1975). After making her film directorial bow with Hempstead Center, a 1974 documentary on the life of Anne Freud, Tewsbury directed her first stage play, Cowboy Jack, and the following year made her feature-film directorial... Full Biography
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