Dianne Crittenden, the casting director whose remarkable résumé consisted of the initial Celebrity Wars movie, The In-Laws and the Terrence Malick includes Badlands, Days of Paradise and The Thin Red Line, has actually passed away. She was 82.
Crittenden passed away Wednesday at her home in Pacific Palisades after a fight with a number of cancers cells, fellow casting director Ilene Starger informed The Hollywood Press reporter.
“Dianne was my mentor, we’ve known each other for 44 years,” Starger claimed.“She was also my dear friend, more like an older sister, really. So generous, kind, brilliant, funny. A people magnet. Her knowledge of and insight into actors was extraordinary.”
A previous head of casting at Detector Bros., Crittenden teamed up with Martin Ritt on Murphy’s Love (1985) and Stanley & & Iris (1990 ); with Roger Donaldson on Thirteen Days (2000) and The Globe’s Fastest Indian (2005 ); and with Peter Weir on Witness (1985 ), The Insect Coastline (1986) and Permit (1990 ).
Crittenden was birthed in Queens on Aug. 6, 1941. Her dad, Herbert, was a professional roofer and her mom, Sylvia, a housewife. She finished from Baldwin Secondary school and Hofstra College and throughout summertimes typically functioned as a lifeguard.
Crittenden showed primary school prior to teaming with digital photographer and director Howard Zieff on marketing campaign for such items as Alka-Seltzer, Volkswagen, Levy’s bread and Photograph. And on the Zieff-directed movies Hearts of the West (1975) and The Centerpiece (1979 ), she was his casting director.
She additionally operated in tv on The New Prick Van Dyke Program and the 1976 miniseries Sybil in addition to functioned as head of casting at Marble Arc Productions.
Her body of job consisted of Stanley Donen’s Fortunate Girl (1975 ), Carl Reiner’s Oh! God (1977 ), Martin Brest’s Entering Design (1979 ), Jerry Schatzberg’s Honeysuckle Rose (1980 ), Mark Rydell’s On Golden Fish pond (1981 ), George A. Romero’s Ape Shines (1988 ), Garry Marshall’s Pretty Lady (1990) and Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 2 (2004 ).
Survivors include her brother or sisters, Donald and Dori; sister-in-law Brenda; brother-in-law Chris; and stepdaughter Jennifer. Her hubby, George Drabek, passed away in 2015.
