“Forgotten Hollywood”- Goodbye to the Sundance Kid…
Manny P. here…
“`Robert Redford is so photogenic, it is hard to imagine anything else but his imagery on the big screen. However, he left a footprint so large, he redefined the moving-making experience. For the most part, he succeeded. Along the way, he was successful in front of and behind the camera, he established an iconic film festival, and he partnered with legendary Paul Newman in a pair of Hollywood classics, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting.
“`Redford started his career in television’s The Untouchables, Dr. Kildare, Perry Mason, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Route 66 and memorably in a tender episode of The Twilight Zone before making his Broadway debut in Neil Simon’s Barefoot in the Park. He ended up in the cinematic version of the play opposite Jane Fonda, who became a lifelong friend.
“`Over the next seven decades, Redford would appear in a number of screen gems (including the pair with Newman): Inside Daisy Clover, Downhill Racer, The Candidate, Jeremiah Johnson, The Way We Were, The Natural, Brubaker, The Great Gatsby, The Electric Horseman, Out of Africa, Indecent Proposal and my own favorites: The Hot Rock, All the President’s Men, Three Days of the Condor, Sneakers and Truth. He won an Oscar for a directorial effort, Ordinary People. Other productions are just as memorable, such as The Milagro Beanfield War, Quiz Show (another fav), The Horse Whisperer, A Civil Action and A River Runs Through It.
“`Redford founded Sundance Institute in 1981. This hosts the Sundance Film Festival, the largest independent festival in the United States. For his efforts, he collected a Kennedy Center Honors and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
“`Robert Redford died in his sleep at his home in Sundance, Utah. He was eighty-nine.
Until next time> “never forget”
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