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Agnes Browne

Anjelica Huston’s Irish Homecoming

By Joseph McBride, Contributor
April / May 2000

March 16, 2023 by Leave a Comment

When I wrote the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award tribute to John Huston in 1983, I had the delightful opportunity to work with his daughter Anjelica. With warmth and enthusiasm, she hosted a segment of our CBS-TV special featuring testimonials by her father's colleagues. Then thirty-one years old, Anjelica seemed like a young gazelle, an exotically beautiful … [Read more...] about Anjelica Huston’s Irish Homecoming

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