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Did it help being Shirley's real sister in law?


Annette Bening's role in the film... did Annette do this as a favor for Shirley, or did Shirley do Annette the favor?

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I don't think that Annette and Warren were married or even dating when this movie was filmed. I think he may have been dating Madonna at the time.

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Since she wasn't Shirley's sister-in-law until three years after 'Postcards' was cast, probably not.

Beatty was dating his 'Dick Tracy' costar Madonna at that time. He and Bening became a couple during the filming of 'Bugsy' (1991).

Too bad there isn't a website where you could look things like that up.

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calendars...websites....that internet thing....imagine what you could find out

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Like Streep, Bening was generation a lot of buzz in the industry for her incredibly acting skills before she became a household name.

I think Nichols cast her in the role sort of as an audition for his film Regarding Henry which he made the following year.

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She wasn't that yet. She didn't marry Warren until a few years later. Check the trivia section.

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I had no idea the Shirley and Warren were siblings!

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I don't think she'd even met Warren until they made Bugsy together- that was a year later.

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Ah rats you failed on your attempt at "Oh look I know who's doing whom!"

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