Margaret Whitton Dies: `Major League' Actress & Producer-Director Was 67
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Patrick Hipes
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Margaret Whitton, the actress, director and producer who is probably best
know for playing the money-grubbing owner of the Cleveland Indians in two
Major League movies, has died after a battle with cancer. She was 67.
 
Her film credits include The Secret Of My Success, 9 1/2 Weeks and Mel
Gibson's Man Without A Face. She began her career on the stage, with
credits there including The Public Theater's production of Dirty Tricks,
starring Judith Ivey as Martha Mitchell. She made her directorial debut
with 2011's A Bird On The Air, a Robert Towne adaptation of Joe Coomer's
novel.
 
Whitton most recently was a partner with Steven Tabakin in Tashtego Films,
a New York-based film, TV and new media production company. She was an
associate producer of the documentary Been Rich All My Life and co-exec
producer of Casting By, a 2012 docu on casting directors.
 
In the Major League movies she played Rachel Phelps the Vegas
dancer-turned-baseball owner who inherited the team from her late husband
tried to make themawful enough to relocate them towarmer Miami. The 1989
original movie starred Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Wesley Snipes, Corbin
Bernsen, Dennis Haysbert and Rene Russo and is considered one of the best
baseball movies of all time. There was a 1994 sequel.
 
Whitton's bio on the Tashtego websitesays she wrote about baseball for
publications including the New York Times, The Village Voice, New York
Newsday and The National.
 
 
Regards,
 
Roger

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