Lillian Hellman Fan Page
banner
lillianhellman.bsky.social
Lillian Hellman Fan Page
@lillianhellman.bsky.social
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
📍Detail https://lillianhellmanfanpage.blogspot.com
#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."
June 30, 2025 at 11:47 AM
#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
June 20, 2025 at 11:50 AM
"Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels."

#ScoundrelTime #LillianHellman #booksky #writers
May 31, 2025 at 11:32 AM
"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
May 31, 2025 at 11:28 AM
#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
May 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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! 😉
May 26, 2025 at 11:42 AM
"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
May 23, 2025 at 11:59 AM
"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions." #quote from #ScoundrelTime (1976)

#LillianHellman #booksky #books #writer
May 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM
"My father was often angry when I was most like him."

#quote from #AnUnfinishedWoman (1969) by #LillianHellman #writer #playwright #booksky #books #1960s
May 22, 2025 at 11:35 AM
#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
May 17, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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
May 1, 2025 at 11:49 AM
“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
May 1, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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
April 30, 2025 at 11:57 AM
"My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much."

#LillianHellman #booksky #playwright #writer #quotes
April 23, 2025 at 11:29 AM
"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
April 14, 2025 at 11:37 AM
"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
April 10, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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
April 6, 2025 at 12:45 PM
#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
March 31, 2025 at 12:06 PM
March 23, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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
March 23, 2025 at 11:53 AM
“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
March 19, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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
March 18, 2025 at 10:37 AM
“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
March 17, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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
March 16, 2025 at 2:38 AM