Martin Short documentary Marty Life Is Short releases on Netflix
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Updated · CBS New York · May 10
Martin Short documentary Marty Life Is Short releases on Netflix
4 articles · Updated · CBS New York · May 10
Directed by Lawrence Kasdan, the film begins streaming on 12 May and uses home movies and interviews with Tom Hanks, Kurt Russell, Steven Spielberg and Ron Howard.
It traces Short's career and repeated family losses, including his wife Nancy Dolman's 2010 death and daughter Katherine's suicide in February at 42.
Short says work helped him endure grief, while the documentary is also dedicated to Catherine O'Hara and arrives as he prepares another Only Murders in the Building season.
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