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REDISCOVERING A LEGEND: Marlyn Mason
Marlyn Mason will celebrate her 73rd birthday on August 7th, 2013, ?But that?s nothing!? she says. ?My director, Ralph Senensky, is 90!?
Mason brought veteran TV director Ralph Senensky, 90, out of retirement three years ago to direct her 2013 short film, ?The Right Regrets.? Mason?s extensive career in show business began when she was just five years old, and includes a leading role alongside Elvis Presley in the 1969 hit ?The Trouble with Girls.? While Mason acted in a number of films and television series, she did not discover her passion?and talent?for screenwriting until very late in her career.
Prior to ?Regrets,? Mason wrote, produced and starred in two other award-winning short films: ?The Bag? (2010) and ?Model Rules? (2008), both of which premiered at RIIFF and will screen prior to the premiere of ?Regrets? on August 7th. ?The Bag? follows the story of a woman who discovers her mother has been hoarding pills so she could try to commit suicide. In ?Model Rules,? Mason plays a woman in her late 60s who works as a nude model for art classes and finds herself drawn to one of the young artists.
Senesky came out of a 26-year retirement to direct ?The Right Regrets,? written by and starring Mason, because, he says, ?I liked the script!? Mason had to re-write the script three times, she says, before Senensky fully approved, and another two and a half years passed before filming was completed, but it was all worth it for her. ?I don?t know how I?ve done it?writing, producing. Well, I do, but then I don?t. [?] Since 2007 I?ve been shaking my head, sort of mystified about the turn my life has taken. But no point making sense of it?what is is?and it is writing and producing?and acting! And having a ball!?
Join us as we celebrate this amazing artist and her career, proving that after kissing Elvis, singing on Broadway and performing on network television, life can give you a second act!
Screening and Q&A with a special "Conversation With... Marlyn Mason."
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