Arts & Entertainment
‘The Vast Of Night’ Gail Cronauer’s Out-Of-This-World Role
"The Vast of Night," a micro-budget film that premiered on Amazon this year and made the Slamdance Film Festival.
By Rachel Stone
August 25th, 2020
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It’s a movie as eerie as “The Twilight Zone” and charming as “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”
“The Vast of Night,” a micro-budget film that premiered on Amazon this year and made the Slamdance Film Festival, marries notes of 1950s sci-fi camp with deceptively deep storytelling and intriguing characters. One of them is played by Dallas-based actress Gail Cronauer.
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Cronauer moved to Dallas in 1979 to teach acting at Southern Methodist University and began acting with the bygone Stage One. She has appeared on nearly every stage in the Dallas area, and in 1987, she started getting roles in TV and film.
“I thought I’d have a career in science or medicine.”
She played Ma Newton in the 1998 movie “The Newton Boys,” and she appeared in five episodes of the Dallas-filmed “Walker: Texas Ranger,” to name two of her many credits.
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