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Mary Eileen McDonnell (born April 28, 1952) is an American film, stage, and television actress. She received Academy Award nominations for her roles as Stands with a Fist in Dances with Wolves and May-Alice Culhane in Passion Fish.
Showing all 22 items. Jump to: Photos (17) Quotes (5) Photos. Quotes. Stands With a Fist : [translating for Kicking Bird] He thanks Dances with Wolves for coming. John Dunbar : Who is Dances with Wolves? Stands With a Fist : It is the name all the people are calling you now. John Dunbar : How did you get your name?
Sep 30, 2007 · ... Mary McDonnell in Dances with Wolves (1990). approximately 35 minutes and 45 seconds. 40 scenes. roughly 15% of film's total running time. Mary McDonnell plays Stands With Fist, a white woman living among the band of Sioux that Costner's Lt. John Dunbar discovers as his neighbors in the Great Plains.
- Kevin Costner nearly didn’t direct ‘Dances With Wolves’ Kevin Costner was a key creative influence behind the project. But he didn’t plan on sitting in the director’s chair.
- It was a book by Costner’s old acting school buddy. Dances With Wolves came out as a novel first. Blake (pictured on the left) had written a “spec script” in the 1980s.
- Costner rode his pal to finish it. Writer Michael Blake and Costner were old pals. They first met at acting school and started out together. So when Blake created the epic tale of Dances With Wolves, it was like shooting fish in a barrel, right?
- Costner paid for it himself. Dances With Wolves cost a relatively modest $22 million. Unfortunately, it was budgeted at $15 million. The tally included “An animatronic bison costing $250,000,” as noted by Biography.
Jun 22, 2013 · Kevin Costner and Mary McDonnell make the the bond that their characters share so believable and true. This video combines scenes with Dances and Wolves and Stands with A Fist with the...
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May 21, 2024 · I have another MUCH requested interview for you this week... the stunning and talented Mary McDonnell. We talk about the incredible career which has earned h...
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Sep 8, 2020 · Mary McDonnell as Stands with a Fist, remembering back to her capture by the Sioux in Dances with Wolves (1990) Review: A marvelous looking film that marked Costner’s directorial debut, became a major hit and wound up winning a Best Picture Oscar, the first for a Western since “Cimarron” in 1931.
