1. Shirley Clarke's mother was the daughter of a multimillionaire Jewish manufacturer and inventor.
27 Facts About Shirley Clarke
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Shirley Clarke attended Stephens College, Johns Hopkins University, Bennington College, and University of North Carolina.
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Shirley Clarke married Bert Clarke to escape her father's control, so she could study dance under the masters in New York City.
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Shirley Clarke began her career as a dancer in the New York avant-garde modern dance movement.
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Shirley Clarke was an avid participant in dance lessons and performances at the Young Women's Hebrew Association.
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In 1972, Shirley Clarke was a signatory to a campaign of Ms.
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In Dance in the Sun, Shirley Clarke made use of rhythmic shots, shooting a dance on stage and then cutting from the stage to the beach and back and forth throughout the film.
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Shirley Clarke crossed over from being a dancer, to being a filmmaker and expressing her art through a new medium.
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Shirley Clarke studied filmmaking with Hans Richter at the City College of New York after making In Paris Parks.
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Shirley Clarke's film Bridges Go-Round is a major example of abstract expressionism in film, with two alternative soundtracks, one with electronic music by Louis and Bebe Barron and the other is jazz orientated and was created by Teo Macero.
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Shirley Clarke used the camera to create a sense of motion while filming inanimate structures.
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Shirley Clarke was involved with films produced by the US Information Agency for the 1958 Brussels World Exposition.
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Shirley Clarke described the impact her experience as a woman had on her filmmaking:.
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Shirley Clarke intended the film to be used as a test case in a successful fight to abolish New York State's censorship rules.
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Shirley Clarke was determined to film the play, and once completed, it received favorable reviews.
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The situation made it difficult for Shirley Clarke to organize funding and distribution for her film projects.
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In 1961, Shirley Clarke signed the manifesto "Statement for a New American Cinema", and in 1962, she co-founded The Film-Makers' Cooperative in New York with Jonas Mekas.
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Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel With the World, directed by Shirley Clarke and starring the poet Robert Frost, won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature.
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Shirley Clarke directed a feature-length interview with a gay black male prostitute, Portrait of Jason which was selected for the New York Film Festival.
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Shirley Clarke formed The TeePee Video Space Troupe at her Hotel Chelsea penthouse.
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Shirley Clarke realized that Corman was expecting a protege without film experience.
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Shirley Clarke appears briefly in the documentary He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life by Jonas Mekas.
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Shirley Clarke's legs appeared in John Lennon and Yoko Ono's 1971 film Up Your Legs Forever.
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Shirley Clarke became a professor at UCLA in 1975, teaching film and video until 1983.
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Shirley Clarke died of a stroke in Boston, Massachusetts after a struggle with Alzheimer's disease, shortly before her 78th birthday.
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The only full-length feature to receive wide media coverage during Shirley Clarke's lifetime was The Connection.
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Shirley Clarke's reputation languished for many years, during a period when she was "marginalized, written out of histories and dismissed as a dilettante".