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Virginia Madsen Joins Swank, Gere in "Amelia"
Published 4/22/2008 at FilmWad
"Sideways" star Virginia Madsen has joined the cast of Mira Nair's Amelia Earhart biopic "Amelia" in the role of Dorothy Binney. Binney was the first wife of publisher George Putnam (played by Richard Gere in the movie). Putnam and Binney divorced in 1929, and the older man married Earhart (Hilary Swank) in 1931. This marriage lasted until the aviator's disappearance and apparent death in 1937. Variety says that the film will chronicle the roller coaster relationship between Putnam and Earhart, and no doubt his first wife will have something to do with that. Ron Bass wrote the screenplay. Shooting begins this month in ...

Replacements, World's Last Broken-Up Band, to Reunite Soon
Published 4/22/2008 at Vulture
... Madsen Joins Amelia: Virginia Madsen, still trying to find something interesting to do after Sideways, joins the Amelia Earhart biopic Amelia, playing Richard Gere's first wife, whom Gere's character dumps for Earhart. While the period of time for which Madsen's character will be suffering has not been formally announced, we can safely assume it will be long. [Variety] ...

Madsen Takes Off With Earhart Biopic
Published 4/22/2008 by Kirsten Anderson at At The Movies - Film News and Reviews
Virginia Madsen’s character was way too busy with her own steamy love life to care that her husband was chasing after Amelia Earhart. Last week I wrote that Richard Gere had joined the cast of the Amelia Earhart biopic starring Hilary Swank (yet another big, dramatic Oscar bait turn for Swank in which she dies…she doesn’t survive many movies, does she?), taking on the role of George Putnam, Earhart’s publisher, manager, and eventual husband. Now Variety brings word that Virginia Madsen will play Dorothy Binney, Putnam’s first wife. Binney, an heiress from the family that ...