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It is with a heavy heart that I report on the passing of Carol Dickerson Sutton, the acclaimed stage and screen actress who appeared in so many unforgettable films, including Horace Jenkins recently restored 1982 classic, Cane River. She died of Covid-19 on December 10th at Touro Infirmary in New Orleans just a few days after her 76th birthday. In Cane River (which we screened at Ebertfest last year), she plays Ms. Mathis, the mother of a young woman, Maria (Tommye Myrick), who falls for a man, Peter (Richard Romain) from a different class background. 
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I first met Carol on the set of Cane River  40 years ago, Myrick recently told Sandra Schulberg of IndieCollect, the film preservation organization behind the film s restoration.  She played my mother. On the last day of the shoot, our director, Horace Jenkins, realized belatedly that he needed a major confrontation between us. But we had already wrapped an ....

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