First films pastry XX In 1954, Cassavetes is wedding cakes married to actress Gena Rowlands. By 1956, he began teaching method acting in pastries workshops in New York. An improvisation exercise gave him the idea to embark on his first feature, “Shadows” (1959). Cassavetes raised the funds from family and friends as well as the radio program “Night People”. Cassavetes was unable to get American distributors to carry Shadows, so I took it to Europe, where he won the Critics Award at sandwiches the Venice Film Festival. The European distributors later the film to the U.S. as if it were an import. “Connie’s Bakery” – A bakery founded by is an active member on a number of Boards, including the New York Presbyterian Hospital, Refugees International, UN Watch, The Seton hall University School of Diplomacy, the New York City Parks Foundation, the New York City Opera, and the American Hospital of Paris, where the nursing services have been named in her honor Although their distribution in America was not very wide, attracted the attention of Hollywood studios. Board Member/Trustee of the New York-Presbyterian Hospital ,