Julia

by Lillian Hellman

Traces the lifelong relationship between playwright Lillian Hellman and Julia, a wealthy girl who turns her back on her upbringing to follow her ideals. In the 1930s, while the adult Hellman Jane Fonda struggles to establish herself as a playwright with the help of her lover, Dashiell Hammett Jason Robards, Julia Vanessa Redgrave battles the exigencies of the Nazi regime. Visiting Julia in Germany, Lillian realizes how much her friend's idealism has cost her, both physically and financially. Lillian is asked by Julia's friend Johann Maximilian Schell to smuggle a large sum of money from Paris to Germany, the better to combat the Nazis from within.

Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1973

About the author

Lillian Florence "Lilly" Hellman (June 20, 1905 – June 30, 1984) was an American dramatist and screenwriter famously blacklisted by the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) at the height of the anti-communist campaigns of 1947–52.

Hellman was praised for sacrificing her career by refusing to answer questions by HUAC; but her denial that she had ever belonged to the Communist Party was easily disproved, and her veracity was doubted by many, including war correspondent Martha Gellhorn and literary critic Mary McCarthy.

She adapted her semi-autobiographical play The Little Foxes into a screenplay which received an Academy Award nomination in 1942.

Hellman was romantically involved with fellow writer and political activist Dashiell Hammett for thirty years until his death.

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Reviews

[Sofía · Rating 5 out of 5]

“Are you as angry a woman as you were a child?”
“I think so. I try not to be, but there it is.”
“Why do you try not to be?”
“If you live around me, you wouldn’t ask.”
“I’ve always liked you anger, trusted it.”
“You’re the only one, then, who has.”

Pues welcome back wolfstar🎊

[sara ♡ · Rating 4 out of 5]

(4.25)