Joan Micklin Silver, who forged a path for female directors and independent filmmakers with movies including "Hester Street" and "Crossing Delancey," has died. She was 85.
Silver died from vascular dementia Thursday at her home in New York, her daughter Claudia Silver told The Associated Press.
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She used a combination of talent, fortitude and luck to create 1975's "Hester Street," her first feature, released when she was 40 years old.
