Ridgefield Actor to Star in Feature Film 'Gold Star' About WWII Vet

Ridgefield actor Robert Vaughn will star in Gold Star, a feature-length film that explores the relationship between a Julliard Music School dropout and her late father, a World War II veteran.

Vaughn was nominated for an Oscar for his role in in The Young Philadelphians (1959). In 1960 he starred as one of The Magnificent Seven, a classic western and The Man From U.N.C.L.E. He has appeared in dozens of films and television shows, including Law and Order.

Gold Star is a Kickstarter funded independent film, the brainchild of Victoria Negri who describes the film on her Kickstarter campaign page:

THE STORY

Gold Star is a narrative feature film by Victoria Negri inspired by her relationship with her late WWII veteran father.

While caring for her dying 90-year-old father, twenty-something music school dropout Vicki struggles to carve out a life separate from the one her father, her first piano teacher and a one-time prodigy in his own right, always wanted for her.

After dropping out of Juilliard, Vicki drifts aimlessly between her family’s house in Connecticut and an itinerant existence in New York. When her father suffers a debilitating stroke, she has to become his primary caretaker. Vicki resists connecting with him, and making peace with herself, but finds a way forward thanks to a new friend and a life-changing event.

The documentary begins filming around Connecticut this week.

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Photo: Gold Star Kickstarter campaign page