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''Julia'' is a 1977 film directed by Creator/FredZinnemann and adapted from one chapter of playwright {{Creator/Lillian Hellman}}'s 1973 memoir ''Pentimento''.

Set in the 1930s, the film stars Creator/JaneFonda as Lillian Hellman and Creator/VanessaRedgrave as the enigmatic title character. An old childhood friend of Lillian, Julia has grown up to become a part of the "Popular Front" against fascism in Europe. The centerpiece of the film occurs when Lillian, following instructions sent by Julia, goes on a mission to deliver aid to the anti-fascist resistance in UsefulNotes/NaziGermany -- not a small deal considering Lillian is Jewish!

The accuracy of ''Pentimento'' is questionable to say the least, but the film version was a success; it received eleven UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nominations, winning three of them. Also appearing in the cast are Creator/JasonRobards (as Lillian Hellman's mentor/lover Creator/DashiellHammett), Creator/RosemaryMurphy (as Creator/DorothyParker), Creator/MaximilianSchell, Creator/HalHolbrook, Creator/JohnGlover, and some unknown named Creator/MerylStreep making her big-screen debut in a minor role -- whatever became of her, anyway?

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''Julia'' is a 1977 American drama film directed by Creator/FredZinnemann and Creator/FredZinnemann, adapted from one chapter of playwright {{Creator/Lillian Hellman}}'s 1973 memoir ''Pentimento''.

Set in the 1930s, 1930s prior to UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, the film stars Creator/JaneFonda as Lillian Hellman and Creator/VanessaRedgrave as the enigmatic title character. An Julia, an old childhood friend of Lillian, Julia has grown up to become a part of the "Popular Front" against rising fascism in Europe. The centerpiece of the film occurs when Lillian, following instructions sent by Julia, goes on a mission to deliver aid to the anti-fascist resistance in UsefulNotes/NaziGermany -- not a small deal deal, considering that Lillian is Jewish!

Jewish. Creator/JasonRobards co-stars as Lillian Hellman's mentor and lover Creator/DashiellHammett.

The accuracy of ''Pentimento'' is questionable questionable, to say the least, but the film version was a success; it received was nominated for eleven UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nominations, UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s, winning three of them. for Redgrave and Robards' supporting roles and Alvin Sargent's screenplay adaption. Also appearing in the cast are Creator/JasonRobards (as Lillian Hellman's mentor/lover Creator/DashiellHammett), Creator/RosemaryMurphy (as Creator/DorothyParker), Creator/MaximilianSchell, Creator/HalHolbrook, Creator/JohnGlover, and some unknown named Creator/MerylStreep making her big-screen debut in a minor role -- whatever role. (Hmm – what ever became of her, anyway?
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''Julia'' is a 1977 film directed by Fred Zinnemann and adapted from one chapter of playwright {{Creator/Lillian Hellman}}'s 1973 memoir ''Pentimento''.

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''Julia'' is a 1977 film directed by Fred Zinnemann Creator/FredZinnemann and adapted from one chapter of playwright {{Creator/Lillian Hellman}}'s 1973 memoir ''Pentimento''.
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The accuracy of ''Pentimento'' is questionable to say the least, but the film version was a success; it received eleven UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nominations, winning three of them. Also appearing in the cast are Creator/JasonRobards (as Lillian Hellman's mentor/lover Creator/DashiellHammett), Rosemary Murphy (as Creator/DorothyParker), Creator/MaximilianSchell, Creator/HalHolbrook, Creator/JohnGlover, and some unknown named Creator/MerylStreep making her big-screen debut in a minor role -- whatever became of her, anyway?

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The accuracy of ''Pentimento'' is questionable to say the least, but the film version was a success; it received eleven UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nominations, winning three of them. Also appearing in the cast are Creator/JasonRobards (as Lillian Hellman's mentor/lover Creator/DashiellHammett), Rosemary Murphy Creator/RosemaryMurphy (as Creator/DorothyParker), Creator/MaximilianSchell, Creator/HalHolbrook, Creator/JohnGlover, and some unknown named Creator/MerylStreep making her big-screen debut in a minor role -- whatever became of her, anyway?
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* CatapultNightmare: After Julia's murder, Lillian wakes up screaming from a dream of looking for Lillian's spy partner Johann at the Berlin train station.

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* MatchCut: From a staffer at the German embassy in Paris handing Lillian her stamped passport, to a hotel clerk handing Lillian her Berlin train ticket.

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From a staffer at the German embassy in Paris handing Lillian her stamped passport, to a hotel clerk handing Lillian her Berlin train ticket.ticket.
** From the actors in a Russian-language ''Hamlet'' congratulating each other onstage after the show, to Lillian bidding goodbye to some friends in the theater lobby.
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* BrotherSisterIncest: Lillian's friend Sammy tells a bizarre story about having sex with his sister Anne Marie (Meryl Streep's character) after his high school graduation. He seems to think it's an amusing anecdote.
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* MatchCut: From a staffer at the German embassy in Paris handing Lillian her stamped passport, to a hotel clerk handing Lillian her Berlin train ticket.
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* ConspicuousTrenchcoat: In Paris Lillian is approached by a man in a tan trenchcoat and fedora that just scream "secret agent". His name is Johann and it turns out he wants Lillian to smuggle $50,000 into Nazi Germany for the anti-Nazi underground.
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* ZipMeUp: Alan tries to pull this off with Lillian but she clucks her tongue at him and has Dottie button up her dress.
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* DayOfTheJackboot: It comes to Austria on a day in 1934 when fascist goons go rampaging through the medical school where Julia is stying. Julia is beaten severely and disappears for an extended time, and when she finally surfaces, she's dropped out of school to fight fascism.

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* HerosMuse: Julia essentially fulfills this trope, although she and Lillian are both female and presumably hetrosexual.



* HerosMuse: Julia essentially fulfills this trope, although she and Lillian are both female and presumably hetrosexual.

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* HerosMuse: Julia essentially fulfills this trope, although she and OldFashionedRowboatDate: Hammett takes Lillian are both female and presumably hetrosexual.out on a rowboat as Lillian, giddy with the success of ''The Children's Hour'', talks about buying a sable coat.
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* TheKenBurnsEffect: Some zooms in and out of photos of 1930s fascism, in a montage where Lillian talks about the rise of fascism in Europe.
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* EiffelTowerEffect: Does the film show the Eiffel Tower right after Lillian's narration says she went to Paris in hopes of artistic stimulation? Of course it does.
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* RaisedByGrandparents: Julia lives with her grandparents, her mother having gone off to Scotland to live the high life as the wife of an earl.


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* TableSpace: The rather cold nature of the house where Julia grows up is shown in a flashback where she and Lillian are having dinner with Julia's grandparents--the grandparents being on either end of a table big enough to seat twelve, with the two girls sitting in the middle.
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* WritersBlock: At the beginning Lillian is struggling with this while attempting to write her first play. Hammett suggests that she go see her friend Julia.
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The accuracy of ''Pentimento'' is questionable to say the least, but the film version was a success; it received eleven UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nominations, winning three of them. Also appearing in the cast are Jason Robards (as Lillian Hellman's mentor/lover Creator/DashiellHammett), Rosemary Murphy (as Creator/DorothyParker), Creator/MaximilianSchell, Creator/HalHolbrook, Creator/JohnGlover, and some unknown named Creator/MerylStreep making her big-screen debut in a minor role -- whatever became of her, anyway?

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The accuracy of ''Pentimento'' is questionable to say the least, but the film version was a success; it received eleven UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nominations, winning three of them. Also appearing in the cast are Jason Robards Creator/JasonRobards (as Lillian Hellman's mentor/lover Creator/DashiellHammett), Rosemary Murphy (as Creator/DorothyParker), Creator/MaximilianSchell, Creator/HalHolbrook, Creator/JohnGlover, and some unknown named Creator/MerylStreep making her big-screen debut in a minor role -- whatever became of her, anyway?
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The accuracy of ''Pentimento'' is questionable to say the least, but the film version was a success; it received eleven UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nominations, winning three of them. Also appearing in the cast are Jason Robards (as Lillian Hellman's mentor/lover Creator/DashiellHammett), Rosemary Murphy (as Creator/DorothyParker), Maximilian Schell, Creator/HalHolbrook, Creator/JohnGlover, and some unknown named Creator/MerylStreep making her big-screen debut in a minor role -- whatever became of her, anyway?

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The accuracy of ''Pentimento'' is questionable to say the least, but the film version was a success; it received eleven UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nominations, winning three of them. Also appearing in the cast are Jason Robards (as Lillian Hellman's mentor/lover Creator/DashiellHammett), Rosemary Murphy (as Creator/DorothyParker), Maximilian Schell, Creator/MaximilianSchell, Creator/HalHolbrook, Creator/JohnGlover, and some unknown named Creator/MerylStreep making her big-screen debut in a minor role -- whatever became of her, anyway?

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* DefectorFromDecadence: Julia comes a wealthy family, but hates living with them due to her belief in social justice. Later, she drops out of university, forgoing a medical career, in order to join the anti-fascist movement.


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* RichKidTurnedSocialActivist: Julia comes a wealthy family, but hates living with them due to her belief in social justice. Later, she drops out of university, forgoing a medical career, in order to join the anti-fascist movement.
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The accuracy of ''Pentimento'' is questionable to say the least, but the film version was a success; it received eleven UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nominations, winning three of them. Also appearing in the cast are Jason Robards (as Lillian Hellman's mentor/lover Creator/DashiellHammett), Rosemary Murphy (as Creator/DorothyParker), Maximilian Schell, Hal Holbrook, Creator/JohnGlover, and some unknown named Creator/MerylStreep making her big-screen debut in a minor role -- whatever became of her, anyway?

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The accuracy of ''Pentimento'' is questionable to say the least, but the film version was a success; it received eleven UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nominations, winning three of them. Also appearing in the cast are Jason Robards (as Lillian Hellman's mentor/lover Creator/DashiellHammett), Rosemary Murphy (as Creator/DorothyParker), Maximilian Schell, Hal Holbrook, Creator/HalHolbrook, Creator/JohnGlover, and some unknown named Creator/MerylStreep making her big-screen debut in a minor role -- whatever became of her, anyway?
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* WritersBlockMontage: Lillian goes through one while struggling to write ''Theatre/TheChildrensHour''.

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* WritersBlockMontage: Lillian goes through one while struggling to write ''Theatre/TheChildrensHour''.''Theatre/TheChildrensHour''.
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The accuracy of ''Pentimento'' is questionable to say the least, but the film version was a success; it received eleven UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nominations, winning three of them. Also appearing in the cast are Jason Robards (as Lillian Hellman's mentor/lover Creator/DashiellHammett), Rosemary Murphy (as Creator/DorothyParker), Maximilian Schell, Hal Holbrook, Creator/JohnGlover, and some unknown named Creator/MerylStreep making her big-screen debut in a minor role.

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The accuracy of ''Pentimento'' is questionable to say the least, but the film version was a success; it received eleven UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nominations, winning three of them. Also appearing in the cast are Jason Robards (as Lillian Hellman's mentor/lover Creator/DashiellHammett), Rosemary Murphy (as Creator/DorothyParker), Maximilian Schell, Hal Holbrook, Creator/JohnGlover, and some unknown named Creator/MerylStreep making her big-screen debut in a minor role.
role -- whatever became of her, anyway?
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The accuracy of ''Pentimento'' is questionable to say the least, but the film version was a success; it received eleven UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nominations, winning three of them. Also appearing in the cast are Jason Robards (as Lillian Hellman's mentor/lover Creator/DashiellHammett), Rosemary Murphy (as Creator/DorothyParker), Maximilian Schell, Hal Holbrook, Creator/JohnGlover, and some unknown named Creator/MerylStreep making her big-screen debut.

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The accuracy of ''Pentimento'' is questionable to say the least, but the film version was a success; it received eleven UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nominations, winning three of them. Also appearing in the cast are Jason Robards (as Lillian Hellman's mentor/lover Creator/DashiellHammett), Rosemary Murphy (as Creator/DorothyParker), Maximilian Schell, Hal Holbrook, Creator/JohnGlover, and some unknown named Creator/MerylStreep making her big-screen debut.
debut in a minor role.
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The accuracy of ''Pentimento'' is questionable to say the least, but the film version was a success; it received eleven UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nominations, winning three of them. Also appearing in the cast are Jason Robards (as Hellman's mentor/lover Creator/DashiellHammett), Rosemary Murphy (as Creator/DorothyParker), Maximilian Schell, Hal Holbrook, Creator/JohnGlover, and some unknown named Creator/MerylStreep making her big-screen debut.

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The accuracy of ''Pentimento'' is questionable to say the least, but the film version was a success; it received eleven UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nominations, winning three of them. Also appearing in the cast are Jason Robards (as Lillian Hellman's mentor/lover Creator/DashiellHammett), Rosemary Murphy (as Creator/DorothyParker), Maximilian Schell, Hal Holbrook, Creator/JohnGlover, and some unknown named Creator/MerylStreep making her big-screen debut.
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The accuracy of ''Pentimento'' is questionable to say the least, but the film version was a success; it received eleven UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nominations, winning three of them. Also in the cast are Jason Robards (as Hellman's mentor/lover Creator/DashiellHammett), Rosemary Murphy (as Creator/DorothyParker), Maximilian Schell, Hal Holbrook, Creator/JohnGlover, and some unknown named Creator/MerylStreep making her big-screen debut.

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The accuracy of ''Pentimento'' is questionable to say the least, but the film version was a success; it received eleven UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nominations, winning three of them. Also appearing in the cast are Jason Robards (as Hellman's mentor/lover Creator/DashiellHammett), Rosemary Murphy (as Creator/DorothyParker), Maximilian Schell, Hal Holbrook, Creator/JohnGlover, and some unknown named Creator/MerylStreep making her big-screen debut.
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The accuracy of ''Pentimento'' is questionable to say the least, but the film version was a success. It received eleven UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nominations, winning three of them. This film is also notable for being the big-screen debut of Creator/MerylStreep, who appears in a minor part.

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The accuracy of ''Pentimento'' is questionable to say the least, but the film version was a success. It success; it received eleven UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nominations, winning three of them. This film is also notable for being Also in the cast are Jason Robards (as Hellman's mentor/lover Creator/DashiellHammett), Rosemary Murphy (as Creator/DorothyParker), Maximilian Schell, Hal Holbrook, Creator/JohnGlover, and some unknown named Creator/MerylStreep making her big-screen debut of Creator/MerylStreep, who appears in a minor part.
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Set in the 1930s, the film stars Creator/JaneFonda as Lillian Hellman, with Jason Robards as her mentor/lover Creator/DashiellHammett and Creator/VanessaRedgrave as the enigmatic title character. An old childhood friend of Lillian, Julia has grown up to become a part of the "Popular Front" against fascism in Europe. The centerpiece of the film occurs when Lillian, following instructions sent by Julia, goes on a mission to deliver aid to the anti-fascist resistance in UsefulNotes/NaziGermany -- not a small deal considering Lillian is Jewish!

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Set in the 1930s, the film stars Creator/JaneFonda as Lillian Hellman, with Jason Robards as her mentor/lover Creator/DashiellHammett Hellman and Creator/VanessaRedgrave as the enigmatic title character. An old childhood friend of Lillian, Julia has grown up to become a part of the "Popular Front" against fascism in Europe. The centerpiece of the film occurs when Lillian, following instructions sent by Julia, goes on a mission to deliver aid to the anti-fascist resistance in UsefulNotes/NaziGermany -- not a small deal considering Lillian is Jewish!
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Set in the 1930s, the movie stars Creator/JaneFonda as Lillian Hellman, with Jason Robards as her mentor/lover Creator/DashiellHammett and Creator/VanessaRedgrave as the enigmatic title character. An old childhood friend of Lillian, Julia has grown up to become a part of the "Popular Front" against fascism in Europe. The centerpiece of the film occurs when Lillian, following instructions sent by Julia, goes on a mission to deliver aid to the anti-fascist resistance in UsefulNotes/NaziGermany -- not a small deal considering Lillian is Jewish!

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Set in the 1930s, the movie film stars Creator/JaneFonda as Lillian Hellman, with Jason Robards as her mentor/lover Creator/DashiellHammett and Creator/VanessaRedgrave as the enigmatic title character. An old childhood friend of Lillian, Julia has grown up to become a part of the "Popular Front" against fascism in Europe. The centerpiece of the film occurs when Lillian, following instructions sent by Julia, goes on a mission to deliver aid to the anti-fascist resistance in UsefulNotes/NaziGermany -- not a small deal considering Lillian is Jewish!
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->''"There are women who reach a perfect time of life, when the face will never again be as good, the body never as graceful or powerful. It had happened that year to Julia."''

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->''"There are women who reach a perfect time of life, ->''"I think I have always known about my memory. I know when the face will never again be as good, the body never as graceful truth is distorted by some drama or powerful. It had happened that year to fantasy. But I trust absolutely what I remember about Julia."''

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