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The Life of Emile Zola (1937)

Paul Muni as Emile Zola

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Madame Bovary

James Mason as Gustave Flaubert

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Beloved Infidel (1959)...

Deborah Kerr and Gregory Peck

Gregory Peck as F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Julia (1977)...

Jane Fonda as Lillian Hellman

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Cross Creek (1983)

Mary Steenburgen as Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

(1985)

Ken Ogata as Yukio Mishima

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Out of Africa (1985)

Meryl Streep as Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen)

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Barfly (1987)

Mickey Rourke as Charles Bukowski

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My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)

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My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)...

Daniel Day-Lewis as Christy Brown

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Henry & June

Maria de Medeiros, Fred Ward and Uma Thurman

Fred Ward as Henry Miller

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Shadowlands (1993)

Anthony Hopkins as C.S. Lewis and Debra Winger as Helen Joy Davidman

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Tom & Viv (1994)

Miranda Richardson and Willem Dafoe

Willem Dafoe as T.S. Eliot

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Il Postino (1994)

Philippe Noiret as Pablo Neruda

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Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Dorothy Parker

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The Basketball Diaries (1995)...

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jim Carroll

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Total Eclipse

Leonardo DiCaprio as Arthur Rimbaud and David Thewlis as Paul Verlaine

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The Last Time I Committed Suicide (1997)

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The Last Time I Committed Suicide (1997)...

Thomas Jane as Neal Cassady

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Shakespeare In Love (1998)

Joseph Fiennes as Will Shakespeare

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Iris (2001)

Judi Dench as Iris Murdoch and Jim Broadbent as John Bayley

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The Hours

Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf

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Sylvia

Daniel Craig as Ted Hughes and Gwyneth Paltrow as Sylvia Plath

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Finding Neverland (2004)

Kate Winslet and Johnny Depp

Johnny Depp as Sir James Matthew Barrie

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Capote

Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote

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Infamous

Toby Jones and Sigourney Weaver

Toby Jones as Truman Capote

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Miss Potter (2006)...

Renée Zellweger as Beatrix Potter

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Becoming Jane (2007)...

Anne Hathaway as Jane Austen

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The Last Station (2009)

Christopher Plummer as Leo Tolstoy

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Julie & Julia

Meryl Streep as Julia Child

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Midnight in Paris (2011)

Kathy Bates as Gertrude Stein

Corey Stoll as Ernest Hemingway

Alison Pill as Zelda Fitzgerald and Tom Hiddleston as F. Scott Fitzgerald

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