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Nov 13, 2020 · Cathy Moriarty was only 17 when Martin Scorsese cast her opposite the then-35-year-old Robert De Niro, who burrowed deep into the trouble psyche of his character, real-life boxer Jake...
Dec 19, 1980 · Raging Bull: Directed by Martin Scorsese. With Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent. The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
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Oct 1, 2015 · Raging Bull's Cathy Moriarty: 'I was 17 and had no fear'. Danny Leigh. She was unforgettable alongside De Niro as the wife of boxer Jake LaMotta. The actor talks about their on-set yelling matches ...
1980s. Moriarty with co-star Joe Pesci on the set of Raging Bull. Moriarty made her film debut in Martin Scorsese 's Raging Bull (1980), as Vikki LaMotta, wife of boxer Jake LaMotta, played by Robert De Niro. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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- Raging Bull partially owes its existence to Rocky. Comparisons to that other Oscar-winning boxing movie from four years earlier were inevitable, but the two were actually connected.
- Raging Bull was one of several boxing movies being shot around the same time. Rocky started a trend, as movies that win Best Picture often do. In late 1978 and early 1979, when Scorsese was getting started on Raging Bull, there were at least four others in the works: Rocky II, The Main Event, The Champ, and Matilda (the boxing kangaroo).
- For research, Raging Bull screenwriter Mardik Martin lived with Jake LaMotta's ex-wife for a few days. “Lived with” is how he phrased it on the 30th anniversary Blu-ray.
- Robert De Niro wanted to do Raging Bull as a play, too. This was in early 1978, before it was even written as a movie yet, when De Niro was collaborating with Mardik Martin to adapt LaMotta’s memoir, while simultaneously trying to convince a noncommittal and increasingly drug-addled Scorsese to take on the project.
Cathy Moriarty. Actress: Raging Bull. Bronx-born character actress Cathy Moriarty was just 18 years old, fresh out of high school and had no idea that her life was about to change. Joe Pesci discovered her competing in a bathing-beauty contest at a bar. He invited her to audition for the part of Vikki LaMotta, second wife to champion boxer Jake ...
Apr 2, 2014 · Boxing champion Jake LaMotta was the subject of Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull. ... played by Cathy Moriarty. ... Jake LaMotta was a former middleweight boxing champion whose life and career is the ...
