June 14, 1985 –

One of John Houston’s last films, the black comedy Prizzi’s Honor, starring Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, Anjelica Huston, Robert Loggia, John Randolph, CCH Pounder, Lawrence Tierney, William Hickey, and Stanley Tucci (in his film debut,) opened on this date.
John Huston is the only director to direct two members of his own family to win Academy Awards. The first was his father Walter Huston in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, who won Best Actor in a Supporting Role, then his daughter Anjelica Huston won Best Actress in Supporting Role for this movie.
