Eleanor Coppola, matriarch of a filmmaking family, dies at 87
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This undated portrait released by the Coppola family shows Eleanor "Ellie" Jessie Coppola. Coppola, who documented the making of some of her husband Francis Ford Coppola's iconic films, including the infamously tortured production of "Apocalypse Now," and who raised a family of filmmakers, has died. She was 87. (Courtesy of the Coppola family via AP)This undated portrait released by the Coppola family shows Eleanor "Ellie" Jessie Coppola. Coppola, who documented the making of some of her husband Francis Ford Coppolas iconic films, including the infamously tortured production of Apocalypse Now, and who raised a family of filmmakers, has died. She was 87. (Courtesy of the Coppola family via AP)FILE - Francis Coppola and wife, Eleanor, pose July 16, 1991, in Los Angeles. Eleanor Coppola, who documented the making of some of her husband Francis Ford Coppolas iconic films, including the infamously tortured production of Apocalypse Now, and who raised a family of filmmakers, died Friday, April 12, 2024. She was 87. (AP Photo/Chris Martinez, File)FILE - Eleanor Coppola poses at her Los Angeles home in January 1992. Coppola, who documented the making of some of her husband Francis Ford Coppolas iconic films, including the infamously tortured production of Apocalypse Now, and who raised a family of filmmakers, died Friday, April 12, 2024. She was 87. (AP Photo/Craig Fujii, File)
This undated portrait released by the Coppola family shows Eleanor "Ellie" Jessie Coppola. Coppola, who documented the making of some of her husband Francis Ford Coppola's iconic films, including the infamously tortured production of "Apocalypse Now," and who raised a family of filmmakers, has died. She was 87. (Courtesy of the Coppola family via AP)
