Julia
- Director: Fred Zinnemann
- Writer: Lillian Hellman; Alvin Sargent
- Producer: Julien Derode; Tom Pevsner
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From 'Pentimento,' the memoirs of late playwright Lillian Hellman, JULIA covers those years in the 1930s when Lillian attained fame with the production of her first play 'The Children's Hour' on Broadway. Not surprisingly, it centers on Lillian's relationship with her lifelong friend, Julia. It is a relationship that goes beyond mere acquaintance and one for which the word 'love' seems appropriate. While Julia attends the University in Vienna, studying with such luminaries as Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein, Lillian suffers through revisions of her play with her mentor and sometimes lover Dashiell Hammett at a New England beach house. After becoming a celebrated playwright, Lillian is invited to a writers' conference in Russia. Julia, having taken up the battle against fascism, enlists Lillian to smuggle money through Nazi Germany which will assist in the Anti-Fascist cause. It is a dangerous mission especially for a Jewish intellectual on her way to communist Russia.
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Cast & Characters
Jane Fonda as Lillian;
Vanessa Redgrave as Julia;
Jason Robards as Hammett;
Maximilian Schell as Johann;
Hal Holbrook as Alan;
Rosemary Murphy as Dottie;
Meryl Streep as Anne Marie;
Dora Doll as Woman Passenger;
Elisabeth Mortensen as Girl Passenger;
John Glover as Sammy;
Lisa Pelikan as Young Julia;
Susan Jones as Young Lillian;
Cathleen Nesbitt as Grandmother;
Maurice Denham as Undertaker;
Mark Metcalf as Pratt