Hellman, Lillian
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Hellman, Lillian (1905–84), American dramatist, screenwriter, librettist, and writer of memoirs, born in New Orleans. She and Dashiell
Hammett, her partner for many years, were accused of un-American activities during the McCarthy period. Her plays include
The Children's Hour (1934);
The Little Foxes (1939), a family melodrama set in 1900 in the deep South; and
Watch on the Rhine (1941), an anti-Nazi war drama set near Washington. Other works include
Pentimento: A Book of Portraits (1973), an account of friendships with various people, including ‘Julia’, filmed as
Julia (1977), with Vanessa Redgrave.
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Lillian Hellman: The Party's Over
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/22/1988; ; 700+ words
; LILLIAN HELLMAN:Her Legend and Her Legacy By Carl...But Rollyson's refusal to take Hellman's politics seriously drains the book...William Wright's 1986 biography Lillian Hellman, The Image, The Woman is a hundred...
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Hellman and Hammett: The Legendary Passion of Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett.
Magazine article from: The Nation; 6/24/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...But in her memoirs, Hellman wove a beautiful fabric...more complex the pair. Lillian Hellman and Dashiell...question is: How did Hellman manage to steal so much...their affair, "that Lillian Hellman decided, consciously...
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Lillian Hellman.
Magazine article from: National Review; 4/10/1987; ; 700+ words
; Lillian Hellman, by William Wright (Simon...507 pp., $18.95) LILLIAN HELLMAN was the Stalinists...they leave behind, and Lillian left a lot of corpses...The numbers of such Hellman casualties, the walking...
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Lillian Hellman: Her Legend and her Legacy.
Magazine article from: National Review; 6/10/1988; ; 700+ words
; Lillian Hellman: Her Legend and Her Legacy IN FEBRUARY of 1980, Lillian Hellman sued Mary McCarthy for libel...artistic and biographical truth that, for Lillian Hellman, Julia was real. This idea is a measure...
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SUMMER SPENT WITH LILLIAN HELLMAN YIELDS MEAN MEMOIR.(COMMENTARY)(Review)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 12/6/1998; 700+ words
; ...A LIKELY STORY One Summer with Lillian Hellman ROSEMARY MAHONEY Doubleday. 273...Likely Story: One Summer with Lillian Hellman: I hope you age well...bias in this review. My aunt was Lillian Hellman's private secretary for 10 years...
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Intruding on Lillian. (playwright Lillian Hellman)
Magazine article from: American Theatre; 7/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...his relationship with playwright Lillian Hellman. How does a strong-willed...I'm not talking about sex. Lillian Hellman was loaded with sex appeal. That...I did a lot of the same things Lillian Hellman did. She was a heavy...
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LILLIAN HELLMAN'S COMPLEXITIES
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 10/7/1988; ; 700+ words
; LILLY. Reminiscences of Lillian Hellman. By Peter Feibleman. Morrow. 364 pp. $19.95. Illustrated. Lillian Hellman was a fine playwright, a better memoirist and a great manipulator...
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"These Three": the influence of William Wyler and Gregg Toland on Lillian Hellman.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Literature-Film Quarterly; 7/1/2009; 700+ words
; ...association with Hollywood was Lillian Hellman. Hellman represents a challenge...Angel. Of the Wyler-Toland-Hellman triumvirate, assembled by Goldwyn...had significant influence on Lillian Hellman's writing for the stage. The...
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Sharp-tongued woman; American 20th-century writing.(Lillian Hellman: A Life with Foxes and Scoundrels)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 12/17/2005; 700+ words
; LILLIAN HELLMAN, an American writer born...She shows no grasp of Hellman's times and writes atrociously...own Ms Martinson never met Hellman. Had she experienced the...were not written on oath. Lillian Hellman: A Life with Foxes...
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Beat the devil. (Who was Lillian Hellman's Julia) (column)
Magazine article from: The Nation; 2/23/1985; ; 700+ words
; ...oddity of the whole Julia saga and the behavior of Lillian Hellman. How to explain it? I think the life of yet another...whose deficits she helped pay off for many years. Lillian Hellman published Pentimento, subtitled A Book of Portraits...
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Hellman, Lillian
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
Lillian Hellman Born: June 20, 1906 New Orleans, Louisiana...Haven, Massachusetts American playwright Lillian Hellman, American playwright, wrote...political and social views. Early life Lillian Florence Hellman was born in New Orleans...
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Lillian Florence Hellman
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Lillian Florence Hellman Lillian Florence Hellman (1906-1984), American playwright...Book of Portraits. Further Reading For insights into Hellman's personal world, see Lillian Hellman, An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir (1969), Pentimento...
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Hellman, Lillian 1906-1984
Book article from: American Decades
HELLMAN, LILLIAN 1906-1984 Playwright, memoirist Moralist "I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion," wrote Lillian Hellman in 1952 in a letter addressed to the House Un-American Activities...
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Lillian Hellman
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Lillian Hellman 1905-84, American dramatist, b. New...rapacious Southern family. Several of Hellman's dramas—notably Watch on...and Pentimento (1973); J. Mellen, Hellman and Hammett (1996).
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The Little Foxes
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...Samuel Goldwyn; screenplay: Lillian Hellman; additional scenes and dialogue...Arthur Kober, from the play by Lillian Hellman; photography: Gregg Toland...Cliffs, New Jersey, 1980. * * * Lillian Hellman's play, a prime example...
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