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Last Record Update: 07-05-2015
Movies

Shadows
1959

Shep helped John Cassavetes raise funding for this movie by having John as one of his rare guests on his radio show one Sunday night in February 1957. As a show of gratitude, Cassavetes expressed his thanks in the opening credits of the movie. Shep was so committed to the project that he loaned his assistant Ellen Paulos to Cassavetes to help with the film. Shep and Ellen had small parts. Gina Rowlands, John's wife also appeared. Author Ray Carney has written many books on John Cassavetes and has a website full of interesting facts about Shadows and Cassavetes career. Www. Cassavetes.com Thanks to him and Gene Bergmann for providing the information on this page.
Original Music: Shafi Hadi Non-Original Music by Charles Mingus and others

Additional Comments:

John went on Shep's radio show, because he had plugged Edge of the City. Shep inspired a "People's Premier" of the movie as part of a 22 hour long program on WOR. See article below.

Production Information:		Buy It
Studio / Network:	Independent
Director:	John Cassavetes
Asst Director:
Producer:	Maurice McEndree
Executive Producer:
Running Time:	81 minutes