‘The Notebook’s Gena Rowlands Is Suffering From Alzheimer’s
Gena Rowlands, the Oscar nominated actress of films including A Woman Under the Influence and Another Woman, has Alzheimer’s disease. In one of her most famous later roles, Rowlands played the older version of Allie, one of the two central characters in the popular romantic drama The Notebook. In the film, the older Allie suffers from dementia. The Notebook was directed by Rowlands’ son, Nick Cassavetes, who revealed his mother’s diagnosis in a new interview with Entertainment Weekly about The Notebook’s 20th anniversary. “I got my mom to play older Allie,” Cassavetes explained, “and we spent ...