Director
24 May 1935 to 31 December 2020
An American director who made her feature debut with the 19th Century Yiddish-language drama Hester Street (1975), Micklin Silver was best known for the Amy Irving-starring romantic comedy Crossing Delancey (1988). Her other credits included Between the Lines (1977), Head Over Heels (1979) and Finnegan Begin Again (1985).
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