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Mine would have to be 'Heart Like a Wheel', the outstanding 1983 autobiographical portrait about drag racer Shirley 'Cha Cha' Muldowney, with two wonderful performances from Bonnie Bedelia & Beau Bridges.
Two supporting performances of note were turned in by Anthony Edwards, who went on to star in both E.R. & 'Top Gun', and the late songwriter Hoyt Axton, who not only starred in 1984's 'Gremlins', but wrote Three Dog Night's 'Joy To The World';
His mother Emma Mae Axton wrote Elvis Presley's 1956 epic 'Heartbreak Hotel'.
Empire of The Sun was a wonderful movie - beautifully photographed, great acting, and fairly true to the book. It inspired me to read the book and then others by the same author. Although a lot was collapsed or combined to meet the running length of a movie, the plot was just as satisfying. It is one of the ones I've saved to re-read.
No, not that one. It was relaeased in the early 70s.
The actors are Jane Fonda Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards and Maximillian Schell. Redgrave and Robards won Oscars for their performances.
Check out this this information about it. Scroll down to near the bottom of the page and there is info about the story itself.
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I have learned many things about the life of Lillian Hellman through someone who has lived one of the stories she has written in "Pentimento", as well as the Film, "Julia". It was intentionally written by Ms. Hellman, in her honorable roll of trying to find a baby, hidden from the Nazi regime.
I have a private photograph of Ms. Hellman, at a large family reunion of friends whom she was well acquainted with and wrote about, at the beach in Germany 1937. The woman she writes about did attend private school in New York, and was a daughter of the Astor family. She attended Oxford in England at age 19, and went on to the Medical University at Vienna where she studied under Freud. Everything that happened in the story is true. "The Albert" in Berlin was owned by the daughter of Rasputin.
This is a true story. The people in this photograph are real historical figures of the time, many with descendants living today.
Those who have read "Pentimento", refer to the back of the book, the "Afterward", where Ms. Hellman elaborates on the compilation of the book. There was only one person who recognized who Ms. Hellman was writing about in the story of "Julia". It was none other than Her Royal Highness Princess Ileana of Romania. She died in 1991, at her Monastery of the Transfiguration, Ellwood City, PA USA, where she was known as Mother Alexandra.
Raging Bull
Love Me or Leave Me
To Kill a Mockingbird
Dog Day Afternoon
Gotti
Goodfellas
The Untouchables
These are all at least based on real lives or events; how much is true and how much is fiction is I think is always a question of degree. We might be surprised to find out how many movies that we thought were pure fiction were taken to one extent or another from true stories.
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Lillian Hellman
It was relaeased in the early 70s.
