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Our American Stories

The Vincent van Gogh of Acting? HINT: He Played "Fredo"

Our American Stories

iHeartPodcasts

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6817 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Our American Stories, it’s a well-known bit of movie trivia that all 5 films in which actor John Cazale appeared were nominated for Best Picture, and three of them received the Oscar. John Cazale played one of the most iconic characters in film history: Fredo Corleone from The Godfather. Yet today, most people don’t know his name. Here to tell this story is Jonjo Powers, author of A Small Perfection: John Cazale and the Art of Acting.

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0:00.0

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0:04.5

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0:07.1

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0:08.4

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0:11.1

I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet.

0:13.9

And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told.

0:17.4

Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of movie pass who got pushed out of the company

0:21.6

he built.

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Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it.

0:27.3

And then boom, it's everywhere.

0:29.3

And that was that moment.

0:30.7

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0:34.7

You're a podcast.

0:44.6

No. or wherever you get your podcast. And we continue with our American stories.

0:48.3

It's a well-known bit of movie trivia that all five films in which actor John

0:53.8

Cazell appeared were nominated for Best Picture.

0:57.6

Three of them received the Oscar.

1:00.4

Furthermore, he appeared posthumously in archival footage in The Godfather Part 3, which was also

1:07.2

nominated for Best Picture, maintaining his perfect record.

1:11.8

He's the only actor in American history to have this distinction.

1:16.8

John Cazal played one of the most iconic characters in film history, Frato Corleone,

1:23.0

from The Godfather.

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