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Barbara Loden

Barbara Loden

Actor, Director, Producer

Born July 8, 1932 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA

Died September 5, 1980

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Barbara Loden (July 8, 1932 – September 5, 1980) was a Broadway Tony award-winning American stage and film actress, model, and stage/film director. She was the first woman to write, direct and star in her own feature film, Wanda, which won the International Critics Award at the 1970 Venice Film Festival. Loden also directed several off-Broadway plays.

Loden was a life member of the famed Actors Studio and appeared in several projects directed by her second husband, Elia Kazan, including Splendor in the Grass. In 1970 Loden wrote, produced, directed, and starred in her own independent film, Wanda, made with the collaboration of cinematographer and editor Nicholas T. Proferes, on a meager budget of $115,000. Wanda is an semi-autobiographical portrait of a "passive, disconnected coal miner's wife who attaches herself to a petty crook."[4] Innovative in its cinéma vérité style, it was one of the few American films directed by a woman to be theatrically released at that time. Film critic David Thomson wrote, "Wanda is full of unexpected moments and raw atmosphere, never settling for cliché in situation or character." The film was the only American film accepted to, and which won, the International Critics' Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1970, and was presented at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival. In 2010, with support from Gucci, the film was restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and screened at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan.

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Filmography

Actor

15

Type

Year

I Am Wanda Poster

I Am Wanda Documentary1980

The Frontier Experience Poster

The Frontier Experience Short Film1975

Fade In TV Movie1973

Wanda Feature Film1970

The David Frost Show Poster

The David Frost Show TV Series1969

The Dick Cavett Show Poster

The Dick Cavett Show TV Series1968

CBS Playhouse: The Glass Menagerie Poster

CBS Playhouse: The Glass Menagerie TV Movie1966

Alcoa Premiere Poster

Alcoa Premiere TV Series1961

Splendor in the Grass Poster

Splendor in the Grass Feature Film1961

The Mike Douglas Show Poster

The Mike Douglas Show TV Series1961

Wild River Poster

Wild River Feature Film1960

Naked City Poster

Naked City TV Series1958

The Tonight Show Poster

The Tonight Show TV Series1953

The Ernie Kovacs Show Poster

The Ernie Kovacs Show TV Series1952

Studio One Poster

Studio One TV Series1948

Director

3

Type

Year

The Boy Who Liked Deer Short Film1975

The Frontier Experience Poster

The Frontier Experience Short Film1975

Wanda Feature Film1970

Producer

2

The Boy Who Liked Deer Short Film1975

The Frontier Experience Poster

The Frontier Experience Short Film1975

Writer

1

Wanda Feature Film1970

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