When the girl was finally born, shortly before 6:30 p.m. on July 8, 1951 in the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles, a telegram was immediately sent to Butiaba, a small town in western Uganda.

And from there, Anjelica Huston later told, it took the messenger, who walked barefoot on unpaved streets, two more days to get the news at Murchison Falls, the waterfalls in the middle of the jungle where the father of the newborns had a big one Made the film, "African Queen", with Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart.

The father was John Huston, who was considered by many to be Hollywood's greatest director at the time.

Claudius Seidl

Editor in the features section.

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    Anjelica Huston described how important this father was to her eight years ago in a beautiful, long text for “Vanity Fair” - and that she always felt very close to him, until his death in 1987, that was probably one of the reasons that he was mostly far away. She grew up in Ireland and lived in London and New York as a teenager. He shot in Hollywood, in Mexico, with Marilyn Monroe in the Wild West. And when she was allowed to visit him in Rome during the shooting of the monumental film "The Bible", she was old enough to know that he was not God. But right after that came John Huston. She won her only Oscar for a role in a film by her father. "The Honor of the Prizzis" was nominated in eight categories in 1985, and when she received her Oscar for best supporting role in a dressthat she had designed herself, you could see in her girlish smile how proud she was that her father could now be proud of her.

    Good as a stranger and wrongly cast as a local

    In this Mafia movie she had played a woman, not a girl, the most dangerous of all, taller than most men, even if, which was seldom, she wore flat shoes.

    What it means to stage your own daughter in such a role and to play such a role as a daughter under the direction of the father: This is reflected in the film in a short, nasty scene in which Huston as Maerose Prizzi her father Dominic from one night raved about the killer Charley Partanna.

    This killer was played by Jack Nicholson, who was also Anjelica Huston's lover in life.

    It is very factual.

    But the father wants to cover his ears, strangle the daughter, shoot the lover.

    She started out as a model, her photos were seen in Vogue, the real Anjelica Huston on the catwalks of Milan and New York - and in her early films it looks like that is exactly what she still enjoyed most: being with walking across the scene with their long legs on high heels.

    And pretend not to even notice that everyone is staring at her.

    With her dark, straight hair, the more reserved than expressive facial expressions and the suggestion that there are a few secrets behind her beautiful, flat face that are not revealed even in the course of a very long film, she was in almost every environment as a stranger good and wrongly cast as locals.

    Some kind of high priestess of beauty

    And when it came to movies for the whole family, it had to be a mafia family. Or the Addams Family, the dark, grotesque, slightly vampiristic and very funny monster family whose matriarch Anjelica Huston played with relish in two films. Also in the completely dysfunctional "Royal Tenenbaums" she was exactly right - and the moments in Stephen Frear's "The Grifters" are breathtaking, where she shows her son John Cusack, who is only 14 years younger, how to become a cheater on a really big scale.

    Like all of us, she has grown older; But the fact that their strangeness has lost none of their equally attractive and unsettling effect is perhaps most clearly revealed in a spot by the Gucci company that came out in the fall. It's about Bloom, a new perfume, and Anjelica Huston, without the slightest hesitation to caricature her own image, plays a kind of high priestess of beauty, fragrance and femininity. Or something like that; you don't know exactly because the spot is a little pompous and pretentious. It is still consistent; it all started for her with fashion and fashion companies. And the fact that the subtle and tasteful is usually a bit stuffy is one of the nicest things you can learn from this elegant and eccentric woman. Today she will be an incredible seventy years old.