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Joan Micklin Silver (Joan Micklin) was born on 24 May, 1935 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA, is a director,writer,producer. Discover Joan Micklin Silver's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 85 years old?

Popular As Joan Micklin
Occupation director,writer,producer
Age 85 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 24 May, 1935
Birthday 24 May
Birthplace Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Date of death 31 December, 2020
Died Place Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Nationality United States

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Who Is Joan Micklin Silver's Husband?

Her husband is Raphael D. Silver (28 June 1956 - 4 March 2013) ( his death) ( 3 children)

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Husband Raphael D. Silver (28 June 1956 - 4 March 2013) ( his death) ( 3 children)
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Joan Micklin Silver Net Worth

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1935

As a successful director working both inside and outside the Hollywood studio system, Joan Micklin Silver was a true lamplighter. Garnering a steady stream of awards and box office successes, she proved herself time and again as one of the most important woman directors to come out of the United States, and demonstrated that films about Jewish topics can succeed with both Jews and non-Jews alike. Based in New York, where she lived for many decades, Joan Micklin was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1935. She was the daughter of Maurice David and Doris (Shoshone) Micklin, Russian Jewish immigrants who came separately to the United States before the upheavals of the Russian Revolution. Her father later founded the Micklin Lumber Company. Her deep love for the movies was first nurtured during her earliest days in pre-television Omaha, where she attended the local cinema religiously.

1943

Cites Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943) and Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali (1955) as her most formative movie-going experiences as a young woman.

1952

She attended Temple Israel Synagogue and graduated from Central High School in 1952 and often wrote sketches for school plays.

1956

Fresh after graduating Sarah Lawrence College in 1956, she married Raphael D. Silver, son of the famous Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver of Cleveland.

The Silvers lived in Cleveland from 1956 to 1967 and raised three daughters there: Dina (born 1958), Marisa (born 1960), and Claudia (born 1963). While in Cleveland, Silver taught music and wrote plays, two of which were performed at local Cleveland theaters.

1967

In 1967, the Silvers moved to New York, where she worked briefly for the Village Voice and was then hired to adapt Lois Gould's 1970 novel Such Good Friends for legendary director Otto Preminger (she was replaced by a long line of others that included Joan Didion and Elaine May). Her first original screenplay, Limbo, about the wives of prisoners of war in Vietnam, was purchased by Universal Pictures and made into a film directed by Mark Robson. When Silver clashed with the director over her vision for the film, she was fired and replaced by James Bridges, though she received story and co-scripting credit in the final film.

1972

The Learning Corporation of America then commissioned her to write and direct a series of short films, among them The Immigrant Experience: The Long Long Journey (1972), which went on to win several awards. When her success as a screenwriter and director of short films failed to score her a break in directing feature films, and when a studio executive actually told her that "women directors were another problem the studios didn't need," Silver's husband agreed to raise the money for her debut feature and serve as its producer.

1975

The film became Hester Street (1975), adapted by Silver from the 1890s novella Yekl by Abraham Cahan, the founder of the Jewish Daily Forward. Turned down by every major studio as an "ethnic oddity" with a limited audience appeal, Hester Street was independently distributed by the Silvers, with the guidance of John Cassavetes. Joan and Ray formed the production and distribution company Midwest Films, through which the film was seen worldwide and admired by Jewish and non-Jewish audiences. Hester Street became one of the earliest independent films to be nominated for Academy Awards, securing a Best Actress nod for lead Carol Kane. The following year, she adapted F. Scott Fitzgerald's Bernice Bobs Her Hair (starring Shelley Duvall, Bud Cort and Veronica Cartwright) as part of a series of median-length features taken from classic American short stories. Despite the critical and surprise commercial success of Hester Street, major studios still would not back Silver's next film.

1977

Her second feature, Between the Lines (1977), about a group of people who work for an alternative newspaper in Boston, was once again produced by her husband. That comedy feature an ensemble cast of now-famous faces, including Jeff Goldblum, John Heard and Stephen Collins.

1978

Has worked with actor John Heard three times, including once as a producer on her husband Raphael "Ray" Silver's directorial debut On the Yard (1978).

1979

Her third feature, Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979), based on the novel by Ann Beattie, marked Silver's first experience working with a major Hollywood studio, namely United Artists.

1983

My Name is Alice (1983), she returned to features in 1985 with the comedy-drama Finnegan Begin Again, starring Robert Preston, Mary Tyler Moore and Sam Waterston. The first effort produced by the fledgling HBO Premiere Films, the film won the Silver Leopard's Eye at the Locarno Film Festival.

In 1983, she also directed Wallace Shawn and Hermione Gingold in How to Be a Perfect Person in Just 3 Days.

1984

Her husband Raphael "Ray" and her daughters Marisa and Claudia have directed their own films. Together, they form Silverfilm Productions in 1984.

1988

Her next film with a Jewish subject, the beloved Crossing Delancey, a hit romantic comedy about an assimilated Jewish Manhattanite (played by Amy Irving) and her Lower East Side pickle-salesman suitor (played by Peter Riegert), was produced for Warner Brothers and released in 1988.

1989

Her other theatrical releases include Loverboy (1989) for Tri-Star and Stepkids (a. k. a. Big Girls Don't Cry. . .

1990

She has directed several films for television, among them Parole Board (1990), A Private Matter (1992), Invisible Child (1999) and Hunger Point (2003).

1992

They Get Even) (1992) for New Line. Silver's other theater works include A. . .

My Name Is Still Alice (1992), Album (1980), and Maybe I'm Doing It Wrong (1982).

1995

In 1995, Silver proved her versatility when she directed a series for National Public Radio called Great Jewish Stories from Eastern Europe and Beyond, which was co-produced by the National Yiddish Book Center.

2002

In 2002, she directed independent film acting legend Gena Rowlands in Charms for the Easy Life (2002) for Showtime.

2007

Turner Classic Movies's Robert Osborne selected the film for inclusion in a special festival recognizing pictures that were "woefully overlooked and under-appreciated," then later programmed the film for his "night of favorites" on TCM in 2007.

2014

In November 2014, Chilly Scenes of Winter played to a sold-out crowd at New York City's IFC Center. After years of directing stage productions, including the well-received A. . .