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Ed Meza @edmezavar Cohen Film Collection is continuing its restorations of classic Merchant Ivory productions, among them 1963’s “The Householder,” the first film collaboration between Ismail Merchant and James Ivory. The classics label of Cohen Media Group, Cohen Film Collection is lining up the restorations of four titles that also include the 1977 episodic romantic drama “Roseland,” with Teresa Wright and Christopher Walken, and two films directed by Merchant, “In Custody” (1994), featuring Shashi Kapoor, and “The Proprietor” (1996), starring Jeanne Moreau. Tim Lanza, Cohen Film Collection vice president and archivist, says he chose “In Custody” – Merchant’s feature directorial debut — and “The Proprietor” in particular “because James Ivory was keen to have a rerelease of some of the films that were directed by Ismael Merchant himself.”

confirmed her death on April 3 in Greenbrae, Calif., via an obit in the San Francisco Chronicle.Born May 4, 1930 in Glasgow, Scotland, she got her big break in a 1957 episode of “Perry Mason,” launching a career that spanned decades and included appearance on stage, television and the big screen.“Her most notable stage performance was in ‘Mornings at Seven,’ for which she received a Drama Desk Award and a Tony Award nomination,” the obit described. “Her wit and humor will be much missed.”“Mornings at Sven” ran for 564 performances on Broadway in 1981 and co-starred stage legends Maureen O’Sullivan, Teresa Wright, Nancy Marchand and Elizabeth Wilson.De Banzie also appeared on Broadway opposite Bernard Hughes in the comedy “Da,” which ran

Lois de Banzie, the Scottish-born actress whose Broadway performance in 1980’s Morning’s At Seven scored a Tony Award nomination, died April 3 in Greenbrae, California. She was 90.