Who is Richard Donners wife Lauren Shuler Donner?
RICHARD Donner, a Hollywood star best known for directing films such as 1980s movie The Goonies, passed away on Monday, July 5, 2021. The director left behind his wife, Lauren Shuler Donner, who sometimes worked as Richards producing partner. Richard Donner met his wife and sometimes collaborator Lauren Schuler Donner in the early 1980s, while making 1985s Ladyhawke. Lauren was an aspiring producer fresh off a divorce. "I was 33. I was trying to get respect and didnt want to be sleeping with the director," she has previously joked. Since getting together romantically, the pair only worked together as producer (her) and director (him) on four films, according to the Hollywood Reporter. These included Ladyhawke, Radio Flyer, Assassins and Timeline. Speaking to the website in 2008, Richard said:  We like our marriage better than the business.  4 Shuler and Donner married in 1985, after meeting whilst working together on a film Credit: Getty  We collaborate on other (things). But when youre talking about screenplays, projects and things like that, we just cannot work together, because she wont listen to me!  Laurens great attributes are working with directors, and shes wonderful with them and gets along and everything. And Im just like a real loner. Shuler and Donner married in 1985. Lauren has referred to her late husband as "the sexiest man alive." She added that his personality shows in his movies, describing her husband as "fun, larger than life, loud, strong, with a big mushy heart." Richard had previously paid tribute to his wife, saying she was the greatest thing he got out of the film industry. 4 Lauren has referred to her late husband as "the sexiest man alive" Credit: Getty  I cant say in words how much you mean to me. Words werent written, he said. Richard and Lauren did not have any children of their own. Donner reportedly formed a close connection with his young Goonies cast - covering college tuition for Jeff Cohen, and paying for life-saving rehab for another - actor Corey Feldman. Donner told The Associated Press in a 1985 interview that the young cast helped him through the production. I never had kids of my own, and they became like my family, he said.