"[55], The New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther dismissed Lawrence of Arabia as "a huge, thundering camel-opera that tends to run down rather badly as it rolls on into its third hour and gets involved with sullen disillusion and political deceit". IN WHICH WE SERVE (1942) Directed by Noel Coward and David Lean. It was rumoured that fellow film director John Boorman would take over direction, but the production collapsed. He described her as a "fascinating oriental", although, in fact, Sandra Lean is English with Russian blood. "[15] David Lean was given honorary membership of the Guild of British Film Editors in 1968. Beginning with Summertime in 1955, Lean began to make internationally co-produced films financed by the big Hollywood studios; in 1970, however, the critical failure of his film Ryan's Daughter led him to take a fourteen-year break from filmmaking, during which he planned a number of film projects which never came to fruition. Intrigued by supersonic flight, Mr. He rejected a draft by Santha Rama Rau, responsible for the stage adaptation and Forster's preferred screenwriter, and wrote the script himself. His younger brother, Edward Tangye Lean (19111974), founded the original Inklings literary club when a student at Oxford University. Documentary about the 1989 restoration of "Lawrence of Arabia", featuring Robert A. Harris, David Lean, Peter O'Toole and film editor Anne V. Coates. In the pre-war years he developed a reputation as the best editor in the country; his films are distinguished by their control of rhythm and shrewd use of counterpoint. It has since become a classic, one of the most highly regarded British films. It was shot entirely on location there. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. David Lean's six definitive films: In Which We Serve (1942). "She treated me so horribly that I think I was far more hurt than I have ever acknowledged," he later wrote. [31] Lean received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1990. Sir David Lean, CBE, was an English film director, producer, screenwriter and editor, best remembered for big-screen epics The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965), and A Passage to . [28] He was married six times, had one son, and at least two grandchildrenall from whom he was completely estranged[4]and was divorced five times. One person must control the machinery. Kay Walsh, a brilliant actor who helped push Lean's career as a director, was under no pretences as to how married life would be after wedding him in 1940. Seven of Lean's films appeared on the list: In addition, on the American Film Institute's 1998 list of 100 Years100 Movies, Lawrence of Arabia placed 5th, The Bridge on the River Kwai 13th, and Doctor Zhivago 39th. He was one of the very few directors who edited his own films, and he also adapted or co-adapted half a dozen of them. "[40], John Orr, author of Romantics and Modernists in British Cinema, examines Lean in terms of "the stylised oscillation of romance and restraint that shapes so much of his work", as well as of "the intersection of culture and nature, where a story's momentous events are not only framed against landscape settings but also integrated into the very texture of the image that his camera produces." "I sensed trouble from the moment I sat down", Lean says of the now famous luncheon. April 17, 1991. His natural taste was for a mixture of the nineteenth-century novel and landscape painting of the same period - something he never tried, nor wanted, to change. However, it restored Lean to both critical and popular favor and, a year ago, he won the American Film Institute's 18th annual Life Achievement Award. However, during the making of The Passionate Friends, Lean had shot abroad for the first time, in the lakes and mountains of the Chamonix and Haute-Savoie regions in France. M * Kenzie Hawick , Hamilton , Dunkeld , It And . ", Mr. The actress, who made "Summertime" with him in Venice in 1954, offered the tribute in an introduction to Stephen M. Silverman's biographical "David Lean," published by Harry N. Abrams. Saturday August 17 2019, 12.01am BST, The Times. The film turned actor Peter O'Toole, playing Lawrence, into an international star, and was nominated for ten Oscars, winning seven, including Best Picture and Lean's second win for Best Director. Mr. It's in the cutting that you feel both the romantic ardour and the repression that create the central tension in his work. Thank God that I'm starting work tomorrow with an American actor [William Holden].". She chuckles huskily at the pun. There was one terrible occasion when a woman ran up to him at a premiere, kissed him and they talked for a while. ", Through the decades, he maintained autocratic control over movie sets. Eventually Peter and his daughter visited us in France, but it was a total disaster. At the time, he was also working intensively on a major project, a $46 million screen version of Joseph Conrad's 1904 novel "Nostromo," a dark tale of greed, ambition and revolution in 19th-century South America. Lean's films won 28 Academy Awards, including seven each for "Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957) and "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962). "David, a very fine director, never had very much consideration for what actors sometimes have to go through just a relentless drive for what he wanted for the scene," said Todd, who starred in three of his films. From 1977 until 1980, Lean and Robert Bolt worked on a film adaptation of Captain Bligh and Mr. Christian, a dramatized account by Richard Hough of the Mutiny on the Bounty. Weight might have changed but we added the latest one. When she'd gone, he turned to me and said: 'Who the hell was that?' vCard. His funeral will be . His six wives were: Isabel Lean (28 June 1930 - 1936) (his first cousin); one son, Peter; Kay Walsh (23 November 1940 - 1949) "[17] The terms of the production code meant that the film's release in the United States was delayed until July 1951 after cuts amounting to eight minutes.[18]. Several of the many other later directors who have acknowledged significant influence by Lean include Stanley Kubrick,[45] George Lucas,[46] Spike Lee,[47] Sergio Leone,[48] Sir John Boorman,[49] Paul Thomas Anderson[50] and Guillermo del Toro. peter lean son of david leanbenji and joel madden young. "David warned me that life with him would be very difficult," she later recalled. Vincent Canby of The New York Times deplored what he termed its "vacuous 19th-century Romanticism" and "calculated prettiness," adding that "this kind of extravagant film making is often lovely to look at, but it becomes, toward the third hour, as boring as cloud- watching.". David Lean classic film director of the greatest epics of all time. 1962. As with Empire of the Sun, Steven Spielberg came on board as producer with the backing of Warner Bros., but after several rewrites and disagreements on the script, he left the project and was replaced by Serge Silberman, a respected producer at Greenwich Film Productions. Some critics said he was beginning to stress form over content and visual effects over literary quality to a point that his films were becoming more stately than entertaining. Amazed, the friend told her that only last night he had had dinner with a pensive Lean, who eventually admitted he'd met a "girl" in Harrod's and couldn't get her face out of his head. "Once a relationship was over, David simply never thought about it again. Jokingly, she mentioned her encounter with Lean. [57], Wolcott, James (April 1997). As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. The joy of six: The leading ladies of David Lean. Both are featured on the American Film Institute's Top 100, with Lawrence of . It recounts the life of T. E. Lawrence, the British officer who is depicted in the film as uniting the squabbling Bedouin peoples of the Arab peninsula to fight in World War I and then push on for independence. David Lean Education. The film earned 11 Academy Award nominations, but was eclipsed by Milos Forman's "Amadeus" and won only two Oscars -- for music and for Dame Peggy as best supporting actress. Survivors include his wife, Sandra, and a son, Peter, by a previous marriage. Lean showed similarly little compunction about ending relationships. She gave him his only son, Peter, but Lean soon decided that cosy . Nonetheless, the film was a box office success, earning $31 million and making it the 8th highest-grossing film of that year. "All his emotions were bottled up and transferred to celluloid. I'm a near miss. The Passionate Friends was the first of three films to feature the actress Ann Todd, who became his third wife. "Though vast in physical scale and set against a tumultuous Indian background, it is also intimate, funny and moving in the manner of a film maker completely in control of his material," Mr. Canby wrote. David Lean: An Intimate Portrait (2001),[10] and by Peter Lean, his son from his first marriage. He regarded editing as the ultimate art and edited every film he directed. "It really had such an awful effect on me for several years you begin to think that maybe they're right. [5] Lean was voted 9th greatest film director of all time in the British Film Institute Sight & Sound "Directors' Top Directors" poll in 2002. The poor critical reception of the film prompted Lean to meet with the National Society of Film Critics, gathered at the Algonquin Hotel in New York, including The New Yorker's Pauline Kael, and ask them why they objected to the movie. ", Omar Sharif, who portrayed a sheik in "Lawrence of Arabia" and the title role in "Dr. Zhivago," said of him: "He is ruthless, dedicated and selfish. "If he was under stress, he would take it out by needling until you rose. David Lean died too young and too soon. Access unlimited streaming of movies and TV shows with Amazon Prime Video Sign up now for a 30-day free trial, As was once observed by Lean's fellow director Ingmar Bergman, also married six times, the very process of film-making lends itself to erotic conspiracy: "Drama and film are incontrovertibly two professions that are immensely erotically charged.". Many fans of The Lord of the Rings trilogy have already noted that the films embrace the epic genre in the same way that Lean's vision of cinema did.For Peter Jackson, Lean was a crucial influence because of his ability to create epics that never strayed away from the human condition and the characters within the frame. "Hmmmm, the American's better. In Doctor Zhivago, it is history and the political realm that prove to be love's enemy.[42]. Widely considered one of the most important figures in British cinema, Lean directed the large-scale epics The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965), and A Passage to India (1984). At once you can see how captivated Lean must have been by this woman who was to become his sixth wife. Highest Rated: 100% Great Expectations (1946) Lowest Rated: 50% Ryan's Daughter (1970) Birthday: Mar 25, 1908. Sandra Lean met David Lean when she was 46 years old and he was 77. "A Passage to India" received three of the four top awards, including best picture, from the New York Film Critics Circle. Madeleine (1950), set in Victorian-era Glasgow is about an 1857 cause clbre with Todd's lead character accused of murdering a former lover. David Lean was a towering genius who demanded emotional and physical perfection as well as the freedom to make his human epics. "Can you think of any art that isn't one person's vision?" It was the country's faltering film industry and even its actors. Films That Won 28 Oscars, David Lean's directorial credits embrace intimate dramas as well as sweeping historical spectacles. With Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock and Michael Powell, Lean is one of the greatest film directors this country has produced. +44 20 7466 2795. "[39] Similarly, Lean biographer Gene D. Phillips writes that the director "saw in his style an attraction to characters who refuse to accept defeat, even when their most cherished hopes go unfulfilled. Nothing was overlooked or neglected. David Shipman wrote in The Story of Cinema: Volume Two (1984): "Of the other Dickens films, only Cukor's David Copperfield approaches the excellence of this pair, partly because his casting, too, was near perfect". As fans of David Lean celebrate his centenary, Geoffrey Macnab asks: was the director's chaotic love life responsible for some of his greatest films? He also had plenty of reason to escape Britain: his acrimonious divorce from Todd may have left him broke, but it gave him as compelling a reason to look further afield as his disenchantment with the British film industry. Reversing the critical response to Ryan's Daughter, the film opened to universally enthusiastic reviews; the film was nominated for eleven Academy Awards and Lean himself nominated for three Academy Awards in directing, editing, and writing. . [26], Lean recruited long-time collaborators for the cast and crew, including Maurice Jarre (who won another Academy Award for the score), Alec Guinness in his sixth and final role for Lean, as an eccentric Hindu Brahmin, and John Box, the production designer for Dr. Zhivago. The only thing in the part I might have done well is the crippled crab-like walk." He soon became one of Britain's ablest and highest-paid editors. After extensive location work in the Middle East, North Africa, Spain, and elsewhere, Lean's Lawrence of Arabia was released in 1962. [citation needed]. I'm under no illusions. Ann Todd had emerged as a major British movie star thanks to her masochistic role as the pianist tormented by James Mason in The Seventh Veil. Lean next undertook film versions of two Charles Dickens novels, "Great Expectations" (1946), which Bosley Crowther of The New York Times called "a perfect motion picture," and "Oliver Twist" (1948), which Mr. Crowther termed "a superb piece of motion picture art." "He was a genius and like all geniuses he was never satisfied," says Lady Lean. Director of Photography: Jack Hildyard (Technicolor). His six wives were: Isabel Lean (28 June 1930 - 1936) (his first cousin); one son, Peter; Kay Walsh (23 November 1940 - 1949) [24] The film was eventually released as The Bounty. Birthplace: Croydon, Surrey, England, UK. He also got married in this year to Isabel Lean, who was his first cousin, and had one son, Peter Lean. Like his contemporaries (Michael Powell, Orson Welles, John Ford), Lean understood fully that telling a story cinematically requires several components: a quality script, precision editing, dramatic composition, and structured sound. Peter Weir, director of Master and Commander (2003), The Truman Show (1998) and The Way Back (2010), delivers BAFTA's annual David Lean Lecture in December 2. According to Lean's co-writer and producer Norman Spencer, Lean was a "huge womanizer". David Lean se narodil 25.bezna 1908 v Londn, kde vyrstal v psn kvakersk rodin. Here you can find David Lean body structure and measurement details. I just lived for the moment, instead of thinking, 'He's left five women, he's going to leave me. View on Amazon. [10], Bored by his work, Lean spent every evening in the cinema, and in 1927, after an aunt had advised him to find a job he enjoyed, he visited Gaumont Studios where his obvious enthusiasm earned him a month's trial without pay. Lean's films now began to become infrequent but much larger in scale and more extensively released internationally. His five marriages had been short, his affairs long. . He was survived by his last wife Sandra Cooke, art dealer and co-author (with Barry Chattington) of I fell in love with him because he was the most sensual, passionate, tactile man, with a wonderful spontaneity and a black sense of humour. Spielberg and Scorsese also helped in the 1989 restoration of Lawrence of Arabia, which had been substantially altered both by the studio in theatrical release and in particular in its televised versions; the theatrical re-release greatly revived Lean's reputation. Reading Beyond the Epic: The Life and Films of David Lean is like watching a David Lean film. He also is survived by a son, Peter. "He said to me: 'I want you to call any men you have in your life and tell them you're not going to see them again.' Well, I didn't and I didn't fall in love with him because he was David Lean. In fact, I'd already warmed to her after reading her book David Lean: An Intimate Portrait. It was partly American financed, although again made for Korda's London Films. British Film Academy award for Best Film. It won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Alec Guinness, who had battled with Lean to give more depth to his role as an obsessively correct British commander who is determined to build the best possible bridge for his Japanese captors in Burma. Sandra Cooke, as she was, first met Lean in 1985 at their mutual local grocers Harrods Food Hall. "When David leaves you, you are rubbed out. There was a pause and then I said: 'Babe, that was Ann Todd, one of your wives.' Gone were the days when as Lean enthused of the time he was filming the Dickens adaptations Great Expectations (1946) and Oliver Twist (1948) he and his collaborators in the Rank stable could "make any subject we wish, with as much money as we think that subject should have spent on it cast whichever actors we choose and have no interference with the way the film is made". Such exotic beauty could be intimidating, but Lady Lean is disarmingly down-to-earth as she rushes around offering me water and searching for her cat. You just had to work hard to see them. arrange an interview there for his son . His first ever trip to the cinema. "Don't ask me what made me do it, because if I thought about it, I'd have been too scared, but I found myself telling him how much I admired his work." His female star, in the complex role of a confused young British woman who falsely accuses an Indian man of attempted rape, gained Australian actress Judy Davis her first Academy nomination. Lean's 1955 film Summertime took him from England to the . "[35] In The Rough Guide to Film, Tom Charity writes: Alfred Hitchcock, Michael Powell and David Lean: the three great British filmmakers of their generation were born within a radius of fifty miles and just nine years apart. REX FEATURES. His first work as a director was in collaboration with Nol Coward on In Which We Serve (1942), and he later adapted several of Coward's plays into successful films. The Rank Organisation (Lean's main patron) was in a period of retrenchment; the extravagance and artistic ambition of the 1940s, when Rank had tried to gate-crash the American market with a series of big-budget "prestige" pictures made by the likes of Lean and Powell and Pressburger were long forgotten. Among them were Peter Lean (David's son) and Sarah Miles, Ryan's Daughter herself. The marriage lasted nine years. William was born in 1896, in St Stephens Cornwall, England. A more formative event for his career than his formal education was an uncle's gift, when Lean was aged ten, of a Brownie box camera. The DVD of 'Dr Zhivago' is released on 21 November 2001, Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. From then on, his mother cried constantly. peter-leon-58701810. You're cooked. Why she gave me the middle name Diplomacy I'll never know. By 1930 he was working as an editor on newsreels, including those of Gaumont Pictures and Movietone, while his move to feature films began with Freedom of the Seas (1934) and Escape Me Never (1935).[14]. UK. In a tour de force of fearless vulnerability, Katharine Hepburn portrays the conflicting emotions that stir the heart of a lonely, middle-aged American tourist who is forced to confront her . ", 'David Lean An Intimate Portrait' by Sandra Lean and Barry Chattington, Carlton Books 25. Specially compiled for the film's 30th anniversary, this volume provides, for the first time, an account of this film's remarkable genesis, artistry, and influence. [52] More recently, Joe Wright (Pride & Prejudice, Atonement) has cited Lean's works, particularly Doctor Zhivago, as an important influence on his work,[53] as has director Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight Rises).[54]. Lean's Ryan's Daughter (1970) was released after an extended period on location in Ireland. His six wives were: Isabel Lean (28 June 1930 - 1936) (his first cousin); one son, Peter; Kay Walsh (23 November 1940 - 1949) Ann Todd (21 May 1949 - 1957) Leila Matkar (4 July 1960 - 1978) (From . He is married to Diane and is still making . ", The producer David Puttnam said recently he regarded Lean as "the greatest storyteller on film. Lean met his sixth wife, Sandra Cooke, in the food hall at Harrods. Starring Noel Coward, John Mills, Bernard Miles, Celia Johnson, narrated by Leslie Howard. Then again, as he freely admitted, he was "a monomaniac" who knew how to be ruthless when making a film. The 47-year-old had separated from his wife, the actor Ann Todd (whom he was to divorce two years later), while the taxman was clamouring for payment of 20,000 an astronomical amount for those days in unpaid dues. Mr. Canby hailed the 1984 film as "by far his best work" since "The Bridge on the River Kwai" and "Lawrence of Arabia" and perhaps his most humane and moving film since "Brief Encounter.". Originally a film editor in the early 1930s, Lean made his directorial debut with 1942's In Which We Serve, which was the first of four collaborations with Nol Coward. In a BBC documentary, Steven Spielberg recounted how Lean (by then a personal friend) asked him to approach Warner Brothers on his behalf to persuade them to finance his film of Joseph Conrad's novel Nostromo. The crew of Lawrence of Arabia were astonished, when Lean refused to stop filming in Jordan to attend his mother's funeral. David Lean Personal. Steven Spielberg was brought on board as a producer for Lean, but later assumed the role of director when Lean dropped out of the project; Spielberg was drawn to the idea of making the film due to his long-time admiration for Lean and his films. [12] In 1923,[13] his father deserted the family and Lean would later follow a similar path after his own first marriage and child. He is famous from his real name: David Lean Height: 6'1''(in feet & inches) 1.8542(m) 185.42(cm) , Birthdate(Birthday): March 25, 1908 , Age on April 16, 1991 (Death date): 83 Years 0 Months 22 Days Profession: Movies (Director), Also working as: Film Producer, Screenwriter, Film Editor, Father: Francis William le Blount Lean, Mother: Helena Tangye, School: Leighton Park School, Reading . He then co-adapted and directed three other Noel Coward works, "This Happy Breed," an affecting 1944 tribute to Britain's lower middle-class; "Blithe Spirit," a whimsical 1945 spoof of spiritualism, and "Brief Encounter," a poignant 1945 romance with compelling performances by Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard. Like all of them, he is a romantic, and romanticism was his subject matter: the flourishing and the breaking of inordinate desires, the dangerous lure of beauty, of adventure and the untrammelled life. The irony was that Lean was often thought of as a supreme technician the former editor who knew everything about cutting, rhythm and camera lenses who lacked the human touch. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. But after a year of boredom, he won a job at the Gaumont Studios in 1927 at the start of the sound era and worked successively as tea boy, number-board holder, messenger and camera assistant. In this sense his most successful films attain a level of stylistic sophistication that guarantees their integrity as artworks. He used the same flair that his films showed for choreography to keep mistresses and wives apart. She moves like a dancer and speaks in the languid tones of someone advertising expensive liqueurs. Stephen M. Silverman, a biographer of the film maker, said in New York he had died of pneumonia. Pozdji ve 30. letech pracoval jako asistent stihu, stiha tdenk a poslze . Lean's break into directing came in the early 1940s courtesy of iconic London playwright Nel Coward who needed a co-director "because he got terribly bored," as Lean later put it. Yet, while his erstwhile colleagues floundered, Lean reinvented himself as the director of widescreen spectacles such as The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Doctor Zhivago (1965). ** Jo . Late last year, he married for the sixth time, to Sandra Cooke, an interior designer. LinkedIn. Here are some of his major films, and the years they opened in London. MacNee W. Fergusson John Strachan John Jolly Peter M Lean J. Maccallum , jr auchterarder , Stornoway . Directed by: David Lean. There was an element of bedroom farce about his private life, too. Sir David Lean, CBE (25 thng 3 nm 1908 - 16 thng 4 nm 1991) l mt o din phim, nh sn xut, bin kch v bin tp ngi Anh, tng sn xut nhiu phim s thi quy m ln nh Cu sng Kwai (1957), Lawrence x Rp (1962) v Bc s Zhivago (1965). Otras pelculas destacadas son: Madeleine (1950); La barrera del sonido (The Sound Barrier, 1952); Pasaje a la India (A Passage to India, 1984). [25] In addition, Lean also edited the film with the result that his three roles in the production (writer, editor, director) were given equal status in the credits. "Making a movie is using a vast piece of machinery like a crane to draw a fine line. On the other, he didn't want anything to get in the way of his career and he couldn't escape his own nature. "[38], Steven Ross has written that Lean's films "reveal a consistently tragic vision of the romantic sensibility attempting to reach beyond the constraints and restrictions of everyday life", and that they tend to feature "intimate stories of a closely-knit group of characters [whose] fates are indirectly but powerfully shaped by history-shaking events going on around them." "I had no idea who he was, but I was struck by his marvellous Phoenician profile," she recalls. Gene Phillips is a writer with wisdom, tenacity and the ability to write in the spirit of his subject. Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu [a l e x a n d o o n s a l e s i a r i t u] [1] est un ralisateur, scnariste et producteur mexicain, n le 15 aot 1963 Mexico.. Ds son premier film sorti en 2000, Amours chiennes, qui rvle Gael Garcia Bernal, Irritu impose un style et une ralisation singuliers qui tapent dans l'il d'Hollywood, qui le considre comme un . Lean was a half-hearted schoolboy with a dreamy nature who was labeled a "dud"[10] of a student; he left school in the Christmas Term of 1926, at the age of 18,[11] and entered his father's chartered accountancy firm as an apprentice. By Peter Tonguette. She left her husband and two children to be with him. Directed by: David Lean. His home on Narrow Street is still owned by his family. Suggest an alternative. When he died, I felt like half a person. He added, "It's always been important to me to hide the technique." I imagine her to be an elderly version of Celia Johnson in his first film Brief Encounter, in a moth-eaten mink coat, pouring Lapsang into my porcelain cup and reminiscing about her husband's brilliance. Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese in particular are fans of Lean's epic films and claim him as one of their primary influences. To view one of Lean's films is to see the complete spectrum of tools available to the filmmaker - and used to their fullest potential. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. On 23rd, November 1940 he tied a nuptial knot with Kay Walsh, an actress but the union ended up in divorce in 1949.The same year he married Ann Tod, but they called it quit in 1957. The marriage was Lean's longest-lasting, but ended in 1978. Lean was a meticulous craftsman noted for technical wizardry, subtle manipulation of emotions, superb production values, authenticity and taste. David Lean (Director) - Robert Bolt (Writer) - Sam Spiegel (Producer) English (Playback Language) English (Subtitle) $13.99. Twitter. Lean was the son of strict Quaker parents and did not see his first film until age 17. Some critics felt the film's massive visual scale on gorgeous Irish beaches and extended running time did not suit its small-scale romantic narrative. [6] Nominated seven times for the Academy Award for Best Director, which he won twice for The Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia, he has seven films in the British Film Institute's Top 100 British Films (with three of them being in the top five)[7][8] and was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1990. David Lean es el nico cineasta que ha conseguido acaparar las rdenes del Imperio Britnico y de las Arts et des Lettres, adems un total de 27 estatuillas de Hollywood. "He knew it would evoke emotions he couldn't cope with," Sandra explains. 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