1. Francis Ford Coppola.
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Adams, Michael
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Coppola, Francis Ford, 1939- ,Film scriptwriting ,American filmmakers - Abstract
Francis Ford Coppola was born April 7, 1939, in Detroit, the son of Carmine Coppola and Italia Pennino Coppola, and grew up in Queens, New York. His father was first flute in the NBC Symphony Orchestra under conductor Arturo Toscanini. Coppola had polio as a child and made his first film with an eight-millimeter camera when he was ten. He graduated from Hofstra University with a degree in drama in 1959 and received an MFA in film from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1967.
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- 2024