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What famous movie director cast his teenage daughter in a 1969 melodrama, with her debut performance vilified by a host of film critics? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.36.254.250 (talk) 22:30, 7 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

What prize are you offering for the correct answer? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots22:39, 7 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Anyway, the answer could be A Walk with Love and Death. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots22:41, 7 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
These all come from the same book. Just buy a copy of "Just Movies - 8,500 Film Quiz Questions and Nothing Else!". We have a copy here in our break room. Number 837: What famous director featured his teenage daughter in a 1969 film, to the great dismay of reviewers, one of whom described her as having the face of 'an exhausted gnu, the voice of an unstrung tennis racket, and a figure of no describable shape'? John Huston - who cast his daughter, Angelica, in a leading role. A Walk With Love and Death was her film debut. 209.149.113.5 (talk) 14:30, 8 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
A similar situation came in 1990 when director Francis Ford Coppola cast his daughter Sofia Coppola in The Godfather Part III. --Thomprod (talk) 18:54, 8 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Yes but luckily she turned out to be a fabulous screenwriter and director, according to my Original Research. Note too that she was the only person to play more than one role in the trilogy. Hayttom (talk) 20:01, 8 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Many shitty actors have made good directors. I only which that Tarantino agreed with the first part of that statement and stopped putting himself in his own films. --Jayron32 03:01, 9 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Hitchcock had the good sense to have no dialogue in most if not all of his visual "signatures". ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots17:29, 9 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
A) Where is Baseball Bugs prize? and B) if you have the answers why are you asking here? Please note that this is not a chat room. MarnetteD|Talk 20:10, 8 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
The geolocates for the two IP's are on opposite sides of the world, though that doesn't prove anything. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots20:26, 8 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]