Eleanor Coppola (born May 4, 1936) is an American documentary filmmaker, artist, and writer. She is the wife of director Francis Ford Coppola. She is most known for her 1991 documentary film Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse as well as other documentaries chronicling the films of her husband and children. Coppola currently lives on her family’s winery in Napa Valley, California.
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“Here lies the body of William Jones
Who all his life collected bones,
Till Death, that grim and boney spectre,
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