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John Huston: Ireland
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John Huston, with an air of finality, puffed life into one of those huge, expense-be-damned cigars. Grizzled, gracious as he beamed his personal mid-morning salute to Welles, Huston greeted the California sunshine with matching warmth. All pale gold and green, the canyon outside was only minimally tamed to accommodate the spacious dwelling in an apparent wilderness not far from the Pacific Ocean. Inside the house, pre-Columbian art, modern paintings, books�classic and contemporary�and the memorabilia of the illustrious gave special distinction to the living room of Huston’s home away from home in Ireland.
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John Huston was born in Ireland in 1790. He married Martha Middleton (1787-1867)... of Ireland, and they came to Upper Canada by way of New York. Together they had four children: Mary Anne, Jane, Eliza, and Joseph. On October 28, 1820, Huston was authorized by the government to assist in surveying the Peterborough area. He also worked closely with Peter Robinson in settling the Irish immigrants into Emily Township in 1825. As well as being a highly respected surveyor, Huston was a Captain in the Durham Volunteer Militia, and a Justice of the Peace.
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Huston visited Ireland in 1951 and stayed at Luggala, County Wicklow, the home of Garech Browne, a member of the Guinness family. He visited Ireland several times afterwards and on one of these visits he purchased and restored a Georgian home, St Clerans, of Craughwell, County Galway. He became an Irish citizen and his daughter Anjelica attended school in Ireland at Kylemore Abbey for a number of years. A film school is now dedicated to him on the NUIG campus. Huston is ... the inspiration for the 1990 film White Hunter Black Heart starring Clint Eastwood, who also directed.
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Huston received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American film Institute in 1983, and responded with three wonderful films - Under the Volcano (1984), Prizzi's Honor (1985) and The Dead (1987). Filmed in his beloved Ireland with and entire Irish cast, Huston returned to the work of one of his favorite writers, James Joyce, in the making of his last film, The Dead. His daughter, Anjelica Huston, won an Academy Award as best supporting actress . Huston died in 1987 shortly after completing The Dead.
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The day after his divorce from Evelyn Keyes, Huston married Enrica (Ricky) Soma, a ballerina. In 1953 the financial success of Moulin Rouge allowed Huston to immigrate to Ireland, which remained his permanent residence until 1978; Huston became an Irish citizen in 1964. By then he had separated from Ricky Soma; she died in an auto crash in 1969. In 1972 he married Celeste Shane and divorced her in 1975.
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