Eleanor Coppola Dies: ‘Hearts Of Darkness’ Emmy Winner & Wife Of Francis Ford Coppola For 61 Years Was 87
deadline.comEleanor Coppola, who won an Emmy for the Apocalypse Now documentary Hearts of Darkness, directed Paris Can Wait and Love Is Love Is Love and was married to Francis Ford Coppola for 61 years, diedFriday at her home in Rutherford, CA.
She was 87. She also is the mother of Oscar-winning filmmaker Sofia Coppola and American Zoetrope president Roman Coppola. Sofia missed Thursday’s news conference for the New York Film Festival’s centerpiece premiere screening of her new film Priscilla to be with her ailing mother.
Eleanor Coppola won an Emmy and a DGA Award for helming Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse, the 1991 documentary about the making of her husband’s seminal Vietnam War movie Apocalypse Now.
The production of that 1979 classic – which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes and was nominated for the Best Picture Oscar – was plagued by problems related to budget, casting, script, the weather – a typhoon destroyed much of the set – and even an active insurgency in the Philippines, the battle with which pulled away helicopters on loan from the government.
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