[DOC] [TLE] Frances McDormand - Film Actress, Television Actress - Biography ... [PAR] Apr 18, 2016 ... Actress Frances McDormand won an Academy Award for her role in the ... at Yale 
Drama School and shared a dorm room with Holly Hunter. She met Joel and 
Ethan Coen through Hunter and won a lead in their first film Blood Simple. ... 
Raising Arizona (1987), which featured her old roommate Hunter in... [DOC] [TLE] 'Raising Arizona' 25th Anniversary: 25 Things You Didn't Know ... [PAR] Mar 4, 2012 ... The classic Coen Brothers comedy, the source of so much endl. ... Holly Hunter 
and Frances McDormand had been roommates in New York when ... In 1984, 
McDormand landed the lead role in "Blood Simple," while Hunter was heard ... 
For "Arizona," the Coens wrote the cameo role of brood mother Dot for... [DOC] [TLE] Holly Hunter Explains Why Going Back to Film Was So Difficult ... [PAR] Oct 12, 2016 ... Holly Hunter Explains Why It Took Her So Long to Return to Movies  Hamptons 
Film Festival ... Love The Piano and Raising Arizona but have never seen an 
... her really being able to carry a storyline, like you get to do with a lead. ... It is a 
film entirely about coping with grief, which after so many years... [DOC] [TLE] Raising Arizona - Wikipedia [PAR] Raising Arizona is a 1987 American crime comedy film directed, written, and 
produced by the Coen brothers, and starring Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter ... Hi 
proposes to her after his latest release from prison, and the two get married. ... In 
contrast to Blood Simple, the characters of Raising Arizona were written to be 
very... [DOC] [TLE] Frances McDormand - Wikipedia [PAR] Her film debut was in the 1984 Coen brothers first film, Blood Simple. In 1985, 
Frances, Holly Hunter and director Sam Raimi shared a house in The Bronx. [DOC] [TLE] 30 Years of Coens: Blood Simple - The Atlantic [PAR] Sep 8, 2014 ... Blood Simple was the first feature starring Joel Coen's ... It's a line that Visser 
echoes when he twice accuses Marty of going "simple. ... Finally, there's Holly 
Hunter, who stars in the latter film. ... Ironically, she was nearly the movie's lead, 
but when the Coens approached her about ... Next up: Raising Arizona. [DOC] [TLE] Coen brothers script Hunter's career | Variety [PAR] May 28, 2008 ... In a way, Holly Hunter's path to film stardom was written by the Coen ... It goes 
like this: Playwright Beth Henley gave the actress her first big... [DOC] [TLE] "Always" - Holly Hunter - Pictures - CBS News [PAR] Pictured: Holly Hunter in "The Firm" (1993), for which she received one of her four 
... After her screen debut in the 1981 horror flick "The Burning," Hunter had ... She 
was asked by the Coen Brothers to appear as the lead in their crime thriller "
Blood Simple," but as she was committed to a play, she suggested her roommate,
... [DOC] [TLE] Frances McDormand talks with Elvis Mitchell at Film Festival - 27east [PAR] Oct 20, 2008 ... After attending Yale and training for stage work, she made her first film 
appearance in the Coen brothers' breakthrough movie, Blood Simple, in 1984. 
After that, the Coens wrote most of their scripts with parts for Ms. ... Arizona (the 
female lead, Holly Hunter, had been Ms. McDormand's roommate at Yale),... [DOC] [TLE] Chatting With Holly Hunter at the Film Festival | The East Hampton Star [PAR] Oct 8, 2016 ... Holly Hunter posed for photographs before her talk on Saturday at the East ... Ms. 
Hunter was offered a role in Blood Simple, the first film by the Joel and ... She 
was then offered the lead role in Raising Arizona, the second film by the Coen 
brothers and ... The Coens just keep going decade after decade. [DOC] [TLE] O Brothers, Where Art Thou? - TIME [PAR] Mar 24, 2001 ... Joel and Ethan Coen, the famously "

Question: The Coens wrote "Raising Arizona" for Holly Hunter after this roommate of hers got the lead in "Blood Simple"
Answer: Frances McDormand