Hollis mulwray biography channel
His most famous role was Hollis Mulwray, the unfortunate Water Authority Commissioner (the husband of Faye Dunaway's character) in Roman Polanski's Chinatown.!
20 facts you might not know about 'Chinatown'
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The screenwriter turned down an adaptation to work on his own idea
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Legendary producer Robert Evans wanted to work with screenwriter Robert Towne.
In s Los Angeles, private detective JJ Gittes (Nicholson) is hired by a woman who goes by the name of Evelyn Mulwray to prove her husband's.
Evans offered Towne $175,000 to write a screenplay for an adaptation of “The Great Gatsby.” Towne didn’t feel like he could really do the novel justice, so instead, he asked to write a film based on his own idea. Instead of $175,000, Towne got $25,000 to write “Chinatown.”
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The film is inspired by real events
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“Chinatown” is a film noir with a private eye and everything, but it also has a larger picture story.
It’s a dramatization of the water wars that took over Los Angeles at one point. The character of Hollis Mulwray is reportedly based on William Mulholland, who was the superintendent and chief engineer of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.
He used that role to wield a ton of power.
