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Francis Ford Coppola bio
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director, producer, composer, and writer who has had more failures (Gardens of Stone,
One From The Heart, The Cotton Club, Finian's Rainbow, and
Jack) than successes (The Conversation, Patton, The Godfather Trilogy, and
Apocalypse Now). Coppola has survived because his successes, while few in
number, have been profitable and have thus outweighed his failures at the
box-office. In addition to money The Conversation, Patton, The Godfather Trilogy, and Apocalypse. Now have earned fourteen Academy Award
nominations and five Oscars for Coppola. Coppola also has three films on AFI's Top 100 Films with The Godfather: Part II at number 32,
Apocalypse
Now at 28, and The Godfather at 3.
Coppola was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1939, when Italian-American family moved
to New York after his birth. His grandparents emigrated from Southern
Italy circa 1900. His father, Carmine Coppola, showed the most promise out
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his father
attended the prominent Julliard School where he met, dated, and married
Italia Pernnino, who's father came to America as Enrico Caruso's pianist.
Six years after graduation, the two of them had their first child, August
Floyd, in 1934. Coppola arrived five years later at roughly the same time
his father was garnering a job as first flautist in the NBC Symphony. His
middle name came from his father's work as the official arranger for the
Ford Sunday Evening Hour on CBS radio. Later in life, Coppola commissioned
some of his fathers music for his films (The Godfather: Part II, Apocalypse
Now, and Tucker: The Man and His Dream). His younger sister Talia was born
in 1946 and eventually became Talia Shire the actress (Adrian in Rocky and
Connie Corleone in The Godfather Trilogy). Coppola often casts his family,
including his nephew Nicolas Cage, in his flicks. At age 10, Coppola
contracted polio while on a Cub Scout trip and was paralyzed on his left
side. Bedridden for nine months, he watched TV continuously and turned to
making puppet shows as entertainment. More than two decades later an
allusion to Coppola's polio is made in The Conversation (1974). Harry Caul
(Gene Hackman) talks about being paralyzed for months as a child in the
film. Francis Ford Coppola bio, was told he would never walk again, but his
father refused to accept this fact and hired a physiotherapist. See
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