Episode 62 – Chatting With Actress Rutanya Alda About Her "Mommie Dearest” Diary - Part 2
During the second part of Tony’s fascinating conversation with celebrated actress Rutanya Alda, she tells him all about the time she met the real Joan Crawford on the set of “Rosemary’s Baby”, how the role of ‘Carol Ann’ in “Mommie Dearest” came into her life, the research she did about Joan Crawford’s life before they started filming the movie, her thoughts on why Faye Dunaway still doesn’t like discussing her performance as Crawford or the film itself, why she decided to publish her book “The Mommie Dearest Diary: Carol Ann Tells All”, her surprise by how much love and admiration the gay community has had for the film “Mommie Dearest” throughout the years, and her experience filming her other cult classic movie “Amityville II: The Possession” and why that film also has such a passionate fan base.
RUTANYA ALDA
Rutanya Alda has been a distinguished actress in film, television, and theater for over 40 years. She is also the only Latvian-born actress who has been voted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Rutanya has appeared in over 100 movies and television shows. She began her illustrious career with two early films by Brian De Palma, “Greetings” and “Hi, Mom!”, in which she starred with Robert De Niro. Following these, she appeared in such highly acclaimed films as “Panic in Needle Park”, “Scarecrow”, “The Long Goodbye”, Sam Peckinpah’s “Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid”, George Romero’s “The Dark Half”,”Last Exit To Brooklyn”, “Racing With The Moon”, the Christmas perennial “Prancer”, and the Oscar-winning film The Deer Hunter”, where she reteamed with Robert De Niro.
At present, Rutanya has the distinction of being a cult icon in two categories: “Amityville II: The Possession”, in which she stars opposite Burt Young, and “Mommie Dearest”, about which she published her first book, the critically and reader-acclaimed “The Mommie Dearest Diary”.
Rutanya has appeared in dozens of theater plays, recently including Tennessee Williams’ “The Fat Man’s Wife”, “Murder at the Howard Johnson’s” at Theater Row, “The Portrait” at Theater 54, and John Guare’s new play “More Stars Than There Are In Heaven”.
She is presently writing a one woman show based on her childhood living in a displaced persons camp in Europe after World War II.
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Rutanya Alda
Actress / Author / Producer
Rutanya Alda has been a distinguished actress in film, television, and theater for over 40 years. She is also the only Latvian-born actress who has been voted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Rutanya has appeared in over 100 movies and television shows. She began her illustrious career with two early films by Brian De Palma, “Greetings” and “Hi, Mom!”, in which she starred with Robert De Niro. Following these, she appeared in such highly acclaimed films as “Panic in Needle Park”, “Scarecrow”, “The Long Goodbye”, Sam Peckinpah’s “Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid”, George Romero’s “The Dark Half”,”Last Exit To Brooklyn”, “Racing With The Moon”, the Christmas perennial “Prancer”, and the Oscar-winning film The Deer Hunter”, where she reteamed with Robert De Niro.
At present, Rutanya has the distinction of being a cult icon in two categories: “Amityville II: The Possession”, in which she stars opposite Burt Young, and “Mommie Dearest”, about which she published her first book, the critically and reader-acclaimed “The Mommie Dearest Diary”.
Rutanya has appeared in dozens of theater plays, recently including Tennessee Williams’ “The Fat Man’s Wife”, “Murder at the Howard Johnson’s” at Theater Row, “The Portrait” at Theater 54, and John Guare’s new play “More Stars Than There Are In Heaven”.
She is presently writing a one woman show based on her childhood living in a displaced persons camp in Europe after World War II.
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