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Don Ameche: Trading Places
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Aan het einde van de jaren '60, begon Ameche ook een carrière als regisseur. Zo regisseerde hij de televisieserie Julia. Daarnaast kwam Ameche in de jaren '80 terug als acteur, toen hij in 1983 werd gecast in Trading Places. Het enorme succes van de film en Ameche's geprezen acteerwerk bracht hem terug in beeld.
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The discussions in the extras reveal that there was hesitation in some quarters of Fox at casting Ameche, with his good-natured ordinariness, as the philandering main character. Lubitsch felt this was exactly what he wanted - to have his hero be a person interested only in good living, with no aim of accomplishing anything or doing something noble. It allowed him to make things of little consequence dramatically important in themselves. There is more family interaction in this film than Lubitsch normally did - most of his previous films were about a single person without family - such as Dietrich. The life of Henry, a man who didn’t amount to very much, represented America and its history. Though taking place in New York City, it still fit in well with the focus of many Fox films of the period on heartwarming looks at small-town Americana.
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When director John Landis lured him back for 1983's Trading Places, Ameche enjoyed a career revival as a character actor, winning a Best Supporting Actor Oscar two years later for Cocoon. He died December 6, 1993, just days after completing Corrina, Corrina.
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