{"id":2027336,"date":"2025-09-16T22:32:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T22:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2027336"},"modified":"2025-09-16T22:32:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T22:32:01","slug":"robert-redford-remembered-how-hollywoods-golden-boy-used-his-star-power-to-boost-indies-and-launch-the-sundance-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/robert-redford-remembered-how-hollywoods-golden-boy-used-his-star-power-to-boost-indies-and-launch-the-sundance-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Redford Remembered: How Hollywood\u2019s Golden Boy Used His Star Power to Boost Indies and Launch the Sundance Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today, the film industry lost not only one of its brightest stars, but also one of its biggest champions: Robert Redford<\/a>, who was instrumental to two revolutions that transformed Hollywood.<\/p>\n

An iconic face in such films as \u201cAll the President\u2019s Men<\/a>\u201d and \u201cThe Natural<\/a>,\u201d Redford was a key figure of the New Hollywood \u2014 the late-\u201960s creative upheaval that brought fresh life to the film industry, at a time when television was siphoning audiences away and the studios were flailing to identify what the younger generation wanted. The answer: They wanted relevant stories and leading men like Redford, who could take the mantle from earlier matinee idols, and do so with a certain knowing twinkle in his eye that showed he was in on the joke.<\/p>\n

Released in 1969, the free-spirited and forward-thinking Western \u201cButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid<\/a>\u201d may have made Redford a star, but the Sundance Film Festival made him a saint,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Today, the film industry lost not only one of its brightest stars, but also one of its biggest champions: Robert Redford, who was instrumental to two revolutions that transformed Hollywood. An iconic face in such films as \u201cAll the President\u2019s Men\u201d and \u201cThe Natural,\u201d Redford was a key figure of the New Hollywood \u2014 the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2027337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2027336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Robert-Redford-Remembered-How-Hollywoods-Golden-Boy-Used-His-Star.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2027336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2027337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2027336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2027336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2027336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}