The Mommie Dearest Diary with Rutanya Alda (04/06/2021)

For the video edition, click here and subscribe: https://youtu.be/a-fDS836BRU In this very private diary, Rutanya Alda ("Carol Ann") delves into the art, the business, and the wild milieu of American cinema by taking you behind the scenes of Mommie Dearest to tell her story of drama and disarray on and off the set. Rutanya frames her diary with anecdotes of Robert Altman, Joan Crawford, Brian De Palma, Bob Dylan, Elia Kazan, Sam Peckinpah, Roman Polanski, Lee Strasberg, Barbra Streisand, and John Wayne, among others—a rich cast of her life's characters, who in turn entertain, illuminate, and ultimately weave Rutanya's life into Carol Ann's, setting the stage for you to vicariously live through the making of this cult classic, from her audition in the living room of director Frank Perry to the wrap party on the last day of shooting. Rutanya Alda is an actress with more than 50 years of experience in film, television, and theater. She has performed in over 100 screen roles and many plays throughout her career, among which are the Academy Award winning Deer Hunter, Racing with the Moon as Sean Penn's mother, Brian De Palma's Greetings and Hi, Mom! with Robert De Niro, Elia Kazan's The Last Tycoon, and the cult classic Mommie Dearest. She is also a member of AEA, SAG-AFTRA, The Actors' Center, and Paul Calderon and David Zayas' theater company Primitive Grace in New York City. She has just written a one woman show based on her childhood living in a displaced persons camp in Europe after World War II. https://smile.amazon.com/Mommie-Dearest-Diary-Carol-Tells/dp/1515260607/