• Submitted by: manso
• Arts and Culture
• 10 / 02 / 2010

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GRANMA. September 30, 2010 NEW YORK .- The U.S. director Arthur Penn, who won great fame with his film Bonnie and Clyde, died late Tuesday in New York, a day before her birthday 88 and after a long illness, The New York Times.

Bonnie and Clyde, starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway in 1967, established new parameters for the representation of sex and violence in Hollywood.

The popular film was nominated for ten Oscars, but won only two: a minor role and Best Cinematography. While the film takes place during the Great Depression,was interpreted as a portrait of the revolutionary 60's.

Penn had other successes as its ironic antiwestern Little Big Man (1970), with Dustin Hoffman in the role of Jack Crabb, the sole survivor of a massacre of Indians near the Little Bighorn.

Attracted by the world of acting at a young age, Penn was devoted to the theater, an activity that continued when he served in the Army during World War II.

In the 1950's, made a series of dramas for television, debuting on the big screen with left-hander (1958), free version and demystifying the figure of Billy the Kid, which featured the excellent contribution of actor Paul Newman.

His next film was The Miracle Worker (1962), based on a play by William Gibson about the life of a teacher with her student who was blind and deaf. The film,besides being welcomed by the public, won two Oscars. These two awards went to Anne Bancroft, as lead actress, and Patty Duke, as an actress, just the two that premiered the piece on Broadway. Penn also receive the first nomination of the three who won in his career for Best Director. (SE)

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