Adato, Perry Miller
Adato, Perry Miller
American film director. Born in Yonkers, NY; studied at Marshalov School of Drama and New School for Social Research, both NY.
The 1st woman to win an award from the Directors Guild of America (DGA), with her documentary on Georgia O'Keeffe (1977), also did documentaries on Carl Sandburg (1982) and Eugene O'Neill (1986), as well as Gertrude Stein, Mary Cassatt, Louise Nevelson, Pablo Picasso, and Dylan Thomas; began career working as director of Film Advertising Center in NY; was then a film consultant and researcher for CBS (NY) before becoming an associate producer, then producer, of cultural documentary films for WNET, the Public Broadcasting System.
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