She was, Bogdanovich says, interested in going through college and not particularly interested in being in movies, but she liked the script and thought it was an interesting part.

Peter Bogdanovich was then approached but he also declined the offer and made What's Up, Doc?

For many years it was believed to be a lost film until film director Peter Bogdanovich discovered a print in 20th Century Fox's film vaults, although the print was missing part of reel three and all of reel four.

Leone was intending merely to produce the film, but due to artistic differences from then-director Peter Bogdanovich, Leone was asked to direct the film instead.

According to Shepherd's autobiography, it was a 1970 Glamour magazine cover that caught the eye of film director Peter Bogdanovich.

His then-wife, Polly Platt, claimed that it was she who, upon seeing the cover in a check-out line in a Ralphs grocery store in southern California, said " That's Jacy ," referring to the role Bogdanovich was casting — and ultimately offered to Shepherd — in The Last Picture Show ( 1971 ).

Bogdanovich was conceived in Europe and born in the United States in Kingston, New York, the son of Herma ( née Robinson ) and Borislav Bogdanovich, a painter and pianist.

In the early 1960s, Bogdanovich was known as a film programmer at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Bogdanovich was influenced by the French critics of the 1950s who wrote for Cahiers du Cinéma, especially critic-turned-director François Truffaut.

At one screening, Bogdanovich was viewing a film and director Roger Corman was sitting behind him.

In the early 1970s, when Welles was having financial problems, Bogdanovich let him stay at his Bel Air mansion for a couple of years.

In 1970, Bogdanovich was commissioned by the American Film Institute to direct a documentary about John Ford for their tribute, Directed by John Ford ( 1971 ).

The 32-year-old Bogdanovich was hailed by critics as a " Wellesian " wunderkind when his best-received film, The Last Picture Show, was released in 1971.

The affair was referenced, tongue-in-cheek, in an episode of Moonlighting where Bogdanovich, being interviewed as himself, claims to have had an affair with Maddie Hayes, Shepherd's character.

Teresa Carpenter's " Death of a Playmate " article about Dorothy Stratten's murder was published in The Village Voice and won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize, and while Bogdanovich did not criticize Carpenter's article in his book, she had lambasted both Bogdanovich and Playboy mogul Hugh Hefner, claiming that Stratten was a victim of them as much as of her husband, Paul Snider, who killed her and himself.

Carpenter's article served as the basis of Bob Fosse's film Star 80 ( 1983 ), in which Bogdanovich, for legal reasons, was portrayed as the fictional director " Aram Nicholas ," a sympathetic but possibly misguided and naive character.

Mask was released with a song score by Bob Seger against Bogdanovich's wishes ( he favored Bruce Springsteen ), and Bogdanovich has often complained that the version of Texasville that was released was not the film he had intended.

According to writer / director Peter Bogdanovich, Marlene Dietrich told him during an aircraft flight that she and James Stewart had an affair during shooting and that she became pregnant and had the baby surreptitiously aborted without telling Stewart.

Although overlapping dialog is specified and cued in the 1928 play script by Hecht and MacArthur, Hawks told Peter Bogdanovich:

" Johnson continued to find reasons not to do the film, and finally Bogdanovich told him, " You, in this role, are going to get an Academy Award ," and finally Johnson accepted, " All right, I'll do the damn thing.

He told Peter Bogdanovich why he was attracted to Algren's novel.

" Benny Herrmann was an intimate member of the family ," Welles told filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich.

Corman told Bogdanovich he could make any film he liked provided he used Karloff and stayed under budget.

Ford told Peter Bogdanovich in the latter's book John Ford that the theme evoked the same meaning, lost love, in both films.

When McQueen found out, he was very upset and told Bogdanovich that he was going to get someone else to direct The Getaway.

Welles also told Bogdanovich that the scene he felt was most effective was actually based on hunger.

Nor have I ever read it ," Welles told Peter Bogdanovich.

According to Bogdanovich, the film was based on true stories told to him by silent movie directors Alan Dwan and Raoul Walsh.

" Bogdanovich, McMurtry and some sources suggest an uncredited Polly Platt went through the book and wrote a script that tells the story chronologically.

The original Lonesome Dove story had been written as a movie script for a 1970s film to be directed by Peter Bogdanovich and star John Wayne, James Stewart, and Henry Fonda.

In the Peter Bogdanovich film The Cat's Meow ( 2001 ), Livingston, played by Claudia Harrison, is depicted as having an affair with Ince at the time of his death.

His work is admired by many notable directors including Peter Bogdanovich, Martin Scorsese, François Truffaut, Michael Mann and Jacques Rivette.

Also in 2001, she depicted the late American actress Marion Davies in The Cat's Meow, directed by Peter Bogdanovich.

Her next film, At Long Last Love ( 1975 ), a musical again directed by Bogdanovich, also flopped.

In 1968, following the example of Cahiers du Cinéma critics Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, and Éric Rohmer who had created the Nouvelle Vague (" New Wave ") by making their own films, Bogdanovich decided to become a director.

Bogdanovich hosted The Essentials on Turner Classic Movies, but was replaced in May 2006 by TCM host Robert Osborne and film critic Molly Haskell.

In 2007, Bogdanovich was presented with an award for outstanding contribution to film preservation by The International Federation of Film Archives ( FIAF ) at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Books by Peter Bogdanovich:

In 1968, Karloff starred in Targets, a film directed by Peter Bogdanovich about a young man who embarks on a spree of killings carried out with handguns and high powered rifles.

The Last Picture Show is a 1971 American drama film directed by Peter Bogdanovich, adapted from a semi-autobiographical 1966 novel of the same name by Larry McMurtry.

According to Bogdanovich, Tex Ritter was almost cast in the role ( he was introduced to Bogdanovich by John Ritter, who was being considered for the part of Sonny ).

Bogdanovich liked Bottoms for his sad eyes, and recalled that he was convinced to cast him when he learned that he was being highly touted at the time by his agent who said he had been given the lead in a Dalton Trumbo movie Johnny Got His Gun ( 1971 ); " I guess that's what convinced me " he said.

Texasville is the 1990 sequel to The Last Picture Show, based on McMurtry's 1987 novel of the same name, directed by Bogdanovich, from his own screenplay, without McMurtry this time.

Category: Films directed by Peter Bogdanovich

The film, directed by Peter Bogdanovich and starring Carol Burnett, Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, John Ritter, Nicollette Sheridan, Denholm Elliott, Julie Hagerty, Mark Linn-Baker and Marilu Henner, received mixed reviews, with many critics noting it was too much of a theatrical piece to translate well to the screen.

McMurtry originally developed the tale in 1972 for a feature film entitled The Streets of Laredo ( a title later used for the sequel ), which would have been directed by Peter Bogdanovich and would have starred James Stewart as Augustus McCrae, John Wayne as W. F.