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Actresses Needed-CT
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ID # 103012
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Feature Film
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Submission Type |
SRN
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Hartford, CT |
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Non-union
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| Rate/Pay |
n/a
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Release Date |
05-09-07
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| Audition Date |
12-31-69
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Submission Deadline |
07-04-07
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| Shoot Date |
12-31-69
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| Casting Category |
Feature Film - Non-SAG
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| Market(s) |
Hartford, CT>Albany, NY |
Actresses Needed
Location: Connecticut
Actress needed for an independent film. Shooting will begin mid-summer in CT. Unpaid work but contract will be renegotiated if picked up for distribution. Please email to Matt Harrak with a headshot or clear photo along with current resume for more info and audition details.
This is a self-response casting.
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Seeking 10 talent(s) for this role
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Actresses are needed.
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Searchable talent specs:
Gender: Female
Age: from 30 to 55 |
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Carter was in rehearsals at a Long Beach theater for "Raisin," the musical version of "Raisin in the Sun
In February 1985, an episode of the show was broadcast live â€â€? the first for a situation comedy in nearly 30 years After Sweet died in May 1985, his character "died" too and the show went through a series of plot and cast changes
Carter said she would have preferred to be an opera singer King, and her brother's Elvis Presley records "
She aspired to be a belter: a singer who gave her all "
Growing up, Carter listened to her mother's recordings of Dinah Washington and B "You're afraid you might hyperventilate or crack, but you do it for the excitement of it," she said
Early in her career, she performed as a singer on the gospel circuit One of the highlights of the show â€â€? a revue based on the music of Fats Waller â€â€? was her soulful rendition of "Mean to Me 'Gimme a Break' Star Nell Carter Dies
Jan 23, 2:27 PM EST
Nell Carter, who played the sassy, matronly housekeeper on the 1980s sitcom "Gimme a Break!" and received a Tony Award for her performance in the Broadway musical "Ain't Misbehavin'," died Thursday, her publicist said "
In addition to Carter's Tony win for "Ain't Misbehavin'," she won an Emmy in 1982 for the TV version "I was a weirdo to want to be in show business Carter and her costars performed flawlessly, and at the end, she threw up her arms and yelled, "We did it!"
She played the housekeeper to a family headed by a widower who was the town police chief, played by Dolph Sweet I like belters, people who have that non-control but control
"When I was growing up, (performing) was not something you aspired to," she said in 1988 Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses
The singer-actress collapsed in her Beverly Hills home and was found by one of her 13-year-old sons, spokesman Roger Lane said
Blessed with a big voice and stage presence, the heavyset Carter prided herself on her range as a performer, doing musicals and drama as well as comedy B , before going on to New York "Head singers have to hold everything tight to get the note
She recovered and continued to perform, mostly on stage
Carter had suffered from diabetes for years, Lane added, and underwent brain surgery in 1992 to remove an aneurysm "
Her NBC comedy "Gimme a Break!" ran from 1981 to 1987, and garnered her two more Emmy nominations, in 1982 and 1983 She liked Doris Day, the Andrews Sisters, Johnny Mathis, and admired the work of Cleo Laine and Barbra Streisand She moved on to coffeehouses and nightclubs in her native Birmingham, Ala She was 54
