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Carol Littleton Carol Littleton
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Emma Lady Hamilton Emma Lady Hamilton
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David Brown David Brown
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Lillian Hellman: The Party's Over
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post LILLIAN HELLMAN:Her Legend and Her Legacy By Carl Rollyson St. Martin's. 613 pp. $24.95 IT IS a measure of the controversy that Lillian Hellman stirred up during her lifetime ...
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Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) ...inherited aura of a legend can be a mixed bag...no problem seeing her kids becoming actors...wildly overvalued" in her estimation. "[Acting...appeared in a couple of her mother's earlier...Theatre Festival in Lillian ...
KenCen names 2002 honorees; McCartney, Taylor cited for life's work.(LIFE)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times (Washington, DC) ...violet-eyed screen legend Elizabeth Taylor head...role that will be my legacy." The ones he cherishes...audiences for decades with her work in "Kiss of the...since 1943, she made her Broadway debut in 1981 in Lillian ...

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