Norman Jewison on his life and films: 'I marched at Martin Luther King’s funeral. I got on a plane with Marlon Brando'

In 2009, Norman Jewison said the fact that most viewers leave Moonstruck loving Cher and not noticing the director doesn't bother him

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Norman Jewison died Jan. 20 aged 97. The acclaimed Canadian director worked on films such as Moonstruck, In the Heat of the Night and Fiddler on the Roof, and received an Academy Award for lifetime achievement in 1999. In an interview with National Post originally published in 2009, he looked back on his films, measured his life and admitted the pairing of Whoopi Goldberg and Gérard Depardieu in Bogus just didn’t work.