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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Editor Born: 1925 in New York City, NY Death: September 23, 1997 in Boston, MA Biography:American director "Shirley Clarke" planned to become a choreographer, staging her first dance recital at age 17. But the intricate movements of her dancers led Ms. Clarke to explore the possibilities of capturing those movements on celluloid-- which in turn led her into film directing. At the time she started out (1953), Ida Lupino was Hollywood's sole female mainstream film director, but Clarke was never interested in the mainstream. She filmed several dancing short subjects for a deliberately limited audience, then applied her choreographer's skills to the rhythmic editing of her semi-documentaries Bridges Go Round (1959) and "Skyscraper" (1959). Always fascinated with the underside of life, Clarke scraped together funding for her first feature, "The Connection" (1961), a frank study of heroin addicts--so frank that it was banned by the New York State film censors. This film was something of an... Full Biography
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