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This is Non-Profit Fan-driven Fan Page of American playwright Lillian Hellman (1905-1984) with permission from her friend novelist Peter Feibleman (1930-2015)

📍Maintained by Kayo @autumngarden.bsky.social
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#OnThisDay #LillianHellman passed away on June 30 1984.
Here's quote from "LILLY: Reminiscences of Lillian Hellman" by #writer #PeterFeibleman.

"She was, is, a lasting voice, and when all the storms in all the tiny teacups are done, it will still be heard. She was a final place. She is a writer."
Lillian, taken four years before her death, borrowed from "LILLY: Reminiscences of Lillian Hellman" written by Peter Feibleman. (Her longtime friend and novelist Peter Feibleman gave me permission to maintain her fan page with photos and quotes from his books.)
June 30, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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#OnThisDay June 20th 1905 #LillianHellman was born in New Orleans. Here's quote from #TheScoundrelTime.

"The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be."

#booksky #theatresky #playwright #writers
Lillian Hellman's photo in her youth, borrowed from her longtime friend & novelist Peter Feibleman who wrote "LILLY:Reminiscences of Lillian Hellman" Lillian Hellman's photo in her childhood, borrowed from her longtime friend & novelist Peter Feibleman who wrote "LILLY:Reminiscences of Lillian Hellman"
June 20, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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"Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels."

#ScoundrelTime #LillianHellman #booksky #writers
Book Cover of "Scoundrel TIme" (1976) written by Lillian Hellman
May 31, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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"there's people that eats up the whole earth and all the people on it. Like in the Bible with the locusts. Then there's people that stand around and watch them do it. Sometimes I think it ain't right to stand and watch them do it."

#TheLittleFoxes #LillianHellman #BetteDavis #moviesky #theatresky
Movie Poster of "The Little Foxes" written by Lillian Hellman, acted by Bette Davis, Teresa Wright, Hebert Marshall.
May 31, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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#OnThisDay #DashiellHammett, a founding father of #hardboiled #crimestory, was born on May 27 1894 in St. Marys County.

Remembering him on his birthay, here's quote from his words.

"I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of."

#TheThinMan #TheMalteseFalcon
On the left, Book cover of "The Thin Man" written by Dashiell Hammett, a founding father of the hard-boiled crime story. On the right, Book Covers of "The Maltese Falcon" "The Red Harvest" "The Glass Key".
May 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Great 👍 You told me nice things before, “books sometimes have a different impact on us as we grow older.” Yes this is what I really want to say. Enjoy!

Attached pic is Japanese translated book I bought 30 years ago! 😉
Book Cover of Japanese translated “The Children’s Hour” by Lillian Hellman.
May 26, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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"Love is casual - that’s the way it should be. We must find that out all over again. We must learn again to live and love like other people.”

#TheChildrensHour #LillianHellman #AudreyHepburn #ShirleyMacLaine #JamesGarner #WilliamWyler #moviesky #booksky #filmsky #movies
Movie poster of "The Children's Hour" written by Lillian Hellman. On the right side, a photo of Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine and James Garney, and three movie scenes.
May 23, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions." #quote from #ScoundrelTime (1976)

#LillianHellman #booksky #books #writer
Book Cover of "Scoundrel Time" written by Lillian Hellman.
May 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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"My father was often angry when I was most like him."

#quote from #AnUnfinishedWoman (1969) by #LillianHellman #writer #playwright #booksky #books #1960s
Book cover of "An Unfinished Woman" written by Lillian Hellman.
May 22, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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#TheAutumnGarden by sharp-witted #LillianHellman offers a profound exploration of middle-aged disillusionment&quiet desperation of lives half-lived.

"lonely people talking to each other can make each other lonelier...lonely people are the only people who can't afford to cry."

#theatresky #booksky
Book Cover of "The Autumn Garden"(1951): Lillian Hellman wearing a hat decorated with autumn leaves.
May 17, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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I found this book at Antique Bookshop in Tokyo.

#TheChildrensHour #LillianHellman #AudreyHepburn #ShirleyMacLaine #JamesGarner #WilliamWyler #MovieSky #BookSky #FilmSky #books #films #playwright #movies #1960s
Still of "The Children's Hour" (1962) from Book "A. Hepburn" published by TASCHEN. Photo on the left page, Shirley MacLaine & Audrey Hepburn standing behind a child, James Garner sitting in front of the child said "everybody lies all the time. Sometimes they have to, sometimes they don't. I've lied myself for a lot of different reasons, but there was never a time when, if I'd been given a second chance, I wouldn't have taken back the lie and told the truth." Still of "The Children's Hour" (1962) from Book "A. Hepburn" published by TASCHEN. Photo: 2 teachers, acted by MacLain and Hepburn sitting in the court. Lillian Hellman said about this work, "Here's another observation I make about the play today as I work over it. On the stage a person is twice as villainous as in a novel. When I read that story I thought of the child as neurotic, sly, but not the utterly malignant creature which playgoers see in her. I never see characters as monstrously as the audiences do ......this is really not a play about lesbianism, but about a lie. The bigger the lie the better, as always." - from "Conversations with Lillian Hellman" edited by Jackson R. Bryer Book cover of "A.HEPBURN" published by TASCHEN
May 14, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Nick revived Nora after knocking her out to keep her from being accidentally shot by Joe Morelli.

"Nora:You damned fool,you didn't have to knock me cold. I knew you'd take him but I wanted to see it.

Lieutenant:Jesus, there's a woman with hair on her chest."

#TheThinMan #DashiellHammett #filmsky
Film Poster of comedy mystery "The Thin Man" (1934) written by Dashiell Hammett, acted by William Powell and Myrna Loy.
May 1, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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“the people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with lies than most people, too. You'd think they'd be on the look-out for lies, but they seem to be the very ones that will believe almost anything at all.”

#TheThinMan #DashiellHammett #booksky #filmsky
Book cover of "The Thin Man" written by Dashiell Hammett. On the right, he stands with his hat on.
May 1, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Why #DashiellHammett is still popular?

Japanese #hardboiled fiction critic Nobumitsu Kodaka ⬇️

“No writer has finally surpassed Hammett, who never let his hero spit out easy words like hard, painful, sad, & lonely. That is the proof of his greatness.”

#booksky #moviesky #Bogard #filmsky #SamSpade
The magazine cover features an illustration of the moment when a woman in a red dress is held at gunpoint by a murderer wearing a hat as she holds a photograph of evidence of a murder. “World Literature” published by Asahi Shimbun on June 4 2000. On the right page, explanation & film posters about “Maltese Falcon”(1941) acted by Humphrey Bogard & “The Thin Man” (1934) acted by William Powell & Myana Loy. On the left page, about “The Glass Key” & “Black Mask” & photo of Dashiell Hammett. Several film shots of Humphrey Bogard in “Maltese Falcon”&”Dark Passage”&”King of the Underworld” From “World Literature” magazine published by Asahi Shimbun on June 4 2000.
April 30, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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"My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much."

#LillianHellman #booksky #playwright #writer #quotes
Memoirs "An Unfinished Woman" "Pentimento" "Maybe" Cookbook "Eating Together" written by Lillian Hellman on the table.
April 23, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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"I have no love for the past, written or remembered......I was somebody else, even yesterday, I fool myself into thinking I must make a snail’s pace into today." from On Reading Again of "Three"
#AnUnfinishedWoman #Pentimento #ScoundrelTime #LillianHellman #books #booksky #writer #playwright
Book Cover of "An Unfinished Woman" written by Lillian Hellman
April 14, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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"People who don't lie don't say they don't lie. Honest people don't say they're honest." - profound statement by Lillian Hellman's father.

#Quote from "Conversations with #LillianHellman" edited by Jackson Bryer

Many thought-provoking words in this book.

#booksky #playwright #writer #booklove
Book Cover of "Conversations with Lillian Hellman" edited by Kackson R. Bryer
April 10, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Today would've been 117th birthday of Bette Davis, born on April 5 1908 in Lowell MA. We're taking time to honor&remember her today. She acted very well the role of Regina as the perfect conniving,greedy,manipulative southern woman in #TheLittleFoxes. #LillianHellman #booksky #theatresky
Bette Davis Photos as the role of Regina & quote from "The Little Foxes" written by Lillian Hellman. Poster of "The Little Foxes" written by Lillian Hellman
April 6, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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#Memoir #Pentimento (1973) by #LillianHellman

"It is best in the theatre to act with confidence no matter how little right you have to it."

#theatresky #booksky #books #theatre #quotes
Book Cover of memoir "Pentimento" written by Lillian Hellman
March 31, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Quote from #TheAutumnGarden written by #LillianHellman.
#booksky #theatresky #playwright
Book Cover of "The Autumn Garden" by Lillian Hellman on the left, quotes from it on the right.
March 23, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Its themes of regret, compromise, & the courage to face one's life choices remain deeply relevant today, perhaps even more so in our era of carefully curated social media personas and constant pressure to appear successful and fulfilled.

#TheAutumnGarden #LillianHellman #theatresky #booksky
Book Cover of "The Autumn Garden" written by Lillian Hellman
March 23, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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“Toys in the Attic” (1960) is Lillian’s last play. It’s a family-oriented story describing destructive part of sibling love.

#toysintheattic #LillianHellman #playwright #theatresky #booksky #quotes #theatre
Quote from "Toys in the Attic" (1960) written by Lillian Hellman
March 19, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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One more quote from the play #DaystoCome (1936) by #LillianHellman.

"I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else."

#playwright #theatresky #booksky #literature
Quote from the play "Days to Come" and photo of Lillian Hellman on the right side.
March 18, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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“Days to Come” was first produced at the Vanderbilt Theatre in NYC on Dec. 15 1936.

"Things start as hopes and end up as habits."
Quote from Act Two

#LillianHellman #playwright #theatresky #booksky #daystocome
Photo of Lillian Hellman and quote from her play "Days to Come"(1936)
March 17, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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This is a part of Japanese magazine "World Literature" published by Asahi Shimbun Company in 2000. #LillianHellman as a fighting female playwright.

#TheChidrensHour #TheLittleFoxes #playwright #theatresky #moviesky #booksky
Explanation about Lillian Hellman as a fighting female playwright from Japanese magazine "World Literature" published by Asahi Shimbun Company in 2000. Explanation about Lillian Hellman as a fighting female playwright from Japanese magazine "World Literature" published by Asahi Shimbun Company in 2000.
March 16, 2025 at 2:38 AM