List: Sarah Lawrence College and Movies
Posted on June 7, 2014 at 5:59 am
This weekend my husband and I are attending a reunion at our alma mater, Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. Our son also graduated from Sarah Lawrence, and our niece will enroll in the MFA program in writing there in the fall.
Characters in movies like “Diary of a Mad Housewife,” “Baby, It’s You,” “The Notebook,” and “10 Things I Hate About You” and in the television series “Will and Grace” and “Entourage” attend or have attended Sarah Lawrence. By the way, any alum immediately spotted that “Notebook” scene set in a Sarah Lawrence classroom as a fraud. But Brian De Palma’s “Home Movies” had scenes actually shot on campus. Some very talented people in the entertainment industry are fellow alums, including:
1. Brian De Palma, director of films like “Blow Out” and “Scarface”
2. Oscar-winner Jane Alexander (“All the President’s Men”)
3. Cary Elwes of “The Princess Bride,” “Twister,” and “Robin Hood: Men in Tights”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pmfl2NXkVg4. Julianna Margulies of “The Good Wife,” “What’s Cooking,” and “City Island”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_3SxeR6d6s5. Jill Clayburgh of “An Unmarried Woman,” “Rich in Love,” and “Bridesmaids”
6. J.J. Abrams, director of the two most recent “Star Trek” films and the creator of the television series “Alias,” “Lost,” and “Fringe”
7. Joan Micklin Silver, director of “Hester Street”
8. Holly Robinson Peete of “For Your Love” and “Celebrity Apprentice”
9. Writer David Lindsay-Abaire of the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Rabbit Hole”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxl39czBhsQ10. Téa Leoni of “Spanglish”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvu1EorWGgQOther alums include Barbara Walters, who just donated her archive to the school.
Jane Fonda stars as a young woman determined to get revenge for the murder of her father (John Marley, the horse head in the bed guy from “The Godfather”).
in a high-stakes poker game.
Charles Laughton plays a very proper gentleman’s gentleman who teachers the rough westerners a few things about their own heritage. It was remade with Bob Hope and Lucille Ball as “Fancy Pants.”
Mel Brooks’ classic is one of the funniest films ever made, funnier every time you watch it. My favorite part is Madeline Kahn as the dance hall girl.
Bette Davis is a repressed single woman who lives with a 
Angela Lansbury was only three years older than Laurence Harvey, who plays her son, but that just adds to the unnerving evil of the mother she plays. Meryl Streep played the part in the remake and she was scary even crunching the ice from her drink.
Piper Laurie is almost as scary as Sissy Spacek in this story of a repressed and repressing mother whose fanaticism fuels her daughter’s telekinetic fury.
Mo’Nique won an Oscar for playing a monstrously abusive mother because she showed us that she was a victim as well as a tormentor.
The memoir of the daughter adopted by Joan Crawford inspired this sizzling story with a dynamic performance from Faye Dunaway as the star who could throw a tantrum over a wire hanger.
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Hepburn became a star and won her first Oscar for playing a runaway princess who meets up with a handsome reporter (Gregory Peck). Peck loved to tell the story about how he surprised her in this scene. He did not tell her what he was going to do with his hand and that reaction from her is pure Audrey, no acting involved.
Hepburn plays Eliza Doolittle, the flower girl who wants to learn to speak English well enough to work in a flower shop and ends up enchanting royalty and, an even tougher task, the irascible Professor Higgins.
The most glamorous art thieves ever are Audrey Hepburn and Peter O’Toole in this glossy romantic comedy.
A chauffeur’s daughter dreams of marrying her employer’s handsome playboy son (William Holden) until his stern businessman brother (Humphrey Bogart) tries to distract her. This was Hepburn’s first film featuring gowns by the man who would become her signature designer, Givenchy. Their work together made her a fashion icon.
Hepburn plays Holly Golightly, a party girl trying to take care of herself in New York, but fighting her feelings for the writer downstairs.
Hepburn stars with Fred Astaire in a musical about a bookish girl who accepts a modeling job in Paris so she can meet her idol, a French philosopher, but finds herself falling for the urbane photographer to the music of George Gershwin.
One of the wisest, wittiest, and most romantic films of all time follows a young couple (Hepburn and Albert Finney) as they travel through Europe in different stages of their relationship, from meeting as young students to newlyweds, new parents, disappointed early middle-age, and the possibility of renewal.
Hepburn stars with Cary Grant in the most romantic thriller ever made, a sophisticated crime caper to a swoony Henry Mancini score.