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Lillian Hellman Fan Page @lillianhellman.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

#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.)

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Lillian Hellman Fan Page @lillianhellman.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

#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"

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Lillian Hellman Fan Page @lillianhellman.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

"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

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Lillian Hellman Fan Page @lillianhellman.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

"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.

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Lillian Hellman Fan Page @lillianhellman.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

#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".

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Lillian Hellman Fan Page @lillianhellman.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

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.

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Lillian Hellman Fan Page @lillianhellman.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

"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.

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Lillian Hellman Fan Page @lillianhellman.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

"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.

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Lillian Hellman Fan Page @lillianhellman.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

#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.

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Lillian Hellman Fan Page @lillianhellman.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

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.

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Lillian Hellman Fan Page @lillianhellman.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

“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.

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Lillian Hellman Fan Page @lillianhellman.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

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.

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Lillian Hellman Fan Page @lillianhellman.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

"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.

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Lillian Hellman Fan Page @lillianhellman.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

"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

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Lillian Hellman Fan Page @lillianhellman.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

"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

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Lillian Hellman Fan Page @lillianhellman.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

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

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Lillian Hellman Fan Page @lillianhellman.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

#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

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Lillian Hellman Fan Page @lillianhellman.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

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

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Lillian Hellman Fan Page @lillianhellman.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

“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

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Lillian Hellman Fan Page @lillianhellman.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

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.

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Lillian Hellman Fan Page @lillianhellman.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

“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)

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Lillian Hellman Fan Page @lillianhellman.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

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.

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Lillian Hellman Fan Page @lillianhellman.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Happy #InternationalWomensDay 🧡 Today remember #LillianHellman who was a pioneer of female playwrights and never gave up writing until her last moment despite almost losing sight with glaucoma and embedding pacemakers and relying on wheelchairs. #theatresky #booksky #filmsky #moviesky

Bette Davis in "The Little Foxes" with a quote.

Book Cover of "LILLY: Reminiscences of Lillian Hellman" written by her long time friend Peter Feibleman.

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Lillian Hellman Fan Page @lillianhellman.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

"Marriages change from day to day and year to year. All relations between people. Women,of course,have regrets for certain delicate early minutes,but-there is no answer to that." Albertine tells her daughter Lily worrying about her husband. #ToysintheAttic (1960) #LillianHellman #theatresky

AI generated image of "Toys in the Attic" written by Lillian Hellman. conversation between Albertine (left) and her daughter Lily.

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Lillian Hellman Fan Page @lillianhellman.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

“the pure and the innocent sometimes bring harm to themselves and those they love and, when they do, for some reason that I do not know, the injury is very great.” Act3 of #ToysintheAttic 📗Read more lillianhellmanfanpage.blogspot.com/search/label... #LillianHellman #theatresky #booksky #playwright

AI generated image of "Toys in the Attic":
(Albertine gave a good-bye word to her daughter Lily)

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Lillian Hellman Fan Page @lillianhellman.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

#LillianHellman had a romantic relationship & creative partnership w/ #DashiellHammett for 30 years. lillianhellmanfanpage.blogspot.com/2020/03/2-on... "Joel Cairo:You always have a very smooth explanation ready. Sam Spade:What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?" Quote from #MalteseFalcon

Book and DVD cover of The Maltese Falcon

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Lillian Hellman Fan Page @lillianhellman.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

"Toys in the Attic" (1960) is the last play of #LillianHellman. It’s a family-oriented story describing destructive part of sibling love. "People change and forget to tell each other. Too bad-causes so many mistakes." Quote from Act 3 #theatresky #booksky #literaturesky #ToysintheAttic #broadway

Lillian Hellman's quote from "Toys in the Attic" with book cover of her memoir "Maybe"

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Lillian Hellman Fan Page @lillianhellman.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

My favorite #quote from #TheAutumnGarden by #LillianHellman. "I've often thought that if I started all over again, I'd go right back to where I started and start from there. Otherwise, it wouldn't prove anything" #theatresky #literaturesky #playwright #broadway

AI generated image of "The Autumn Garden" written by Lillian Hellman.

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Lillian Hellman Fan Page @lillianhellman.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Here's my favorite #quote from #TheAutumnGarden by #LillianHellman. "at any given moment, you're only the sum of your life up to then. There are no big moments you can reach unless you've a smaller pile of moments to stand on." #TheatreSky #BroadwaySky #LiteratureSky

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Lillian Hellman Fan Page @lillianhellman.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Middle-aged people tend to think what their lives were, is, and will be in the winter of their lives. Such ordinary people are main characters of #TheAutumnGarden. Unlike her another plays, no villains no heroes. Neither political nor sarcastic. I like this best. #LillianHellman #theatresky

Quote from "The Autumn Garden" written by Lillian Hellman and AI generated image of Crossman and Sophie in "The Autumn Garden"

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Lillian Hellman Fan Page @lillianhellman.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

#LillianHellman had meant #TheLittleFoxes as a kind of satire & tried to do that in #AnotherPartoftheForest but the critics thought straight stuff; what she thought was bite they thought sad, touching, or plotty and melodramatic. "I think people always believe what they want to believe, don't you?"

Book Cover of THE LITTLE FOXES and ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST with quotes.

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Lillian Hellman Fan Page @lillianhellman.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Today's quote from memoir #AnUnfinishedWoman" by #LillianHellman. "I am not yet old enough to like the past than the present." I am not so young but not old enough to dwell on the past. No matter how old I get, I want to keep moving forward, not dwelling on the past. Have a great new week!

Quote from memoir "An Unfinished Woman" written by American Playwright Lillian Hellman.

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Lillian Hellman Fan Page @lillianhellman.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

According to IMDb, #WilliamWyler encouraged #BetteDavis to see #TallulahBankhead BroadwayPerformance.Davis was not keen on the idea but agreed to do so,regretting it instantly as she realized that she was now forced to play the character in a very different manner. (continued) #theatresky #moviesky

Movie quote from "The Little Foxes" (1941) written by Lillian Hellman.

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Lillian Hellman Fan Page @lillianhellman.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

"there were people who ate the earth and other people who stood around and watched them do it. I'm not going to stand around and watch you do it". #TheLittleFoxes #LillianHellman #classicfilm #theatre #broadway #BetteDavis #TeresaWright #WilliamWyler #filmsky #moviesky #TheatreSky #writer

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Lillian Hellman Fan Page @lillianhellman.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

"I had meant to half mock my own youthful high-class innocence in Alexandra, the young girl in the play... I had meant the audience to recognize some part of themselves in the money-dominated Hubbards". - quote from THREE #TheLittleFoxes #LillianHellman #Broadway #theatre #ElizabethTaylor

Book cover of THE LITTLE FOXES written by Lillian Hellman with quotes.

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Lillian Hellman Fan Page @lillianhellman.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

"Regina: ...Lonely for all the things I wasn't going to get. Everybody in this house was so busy and there was so little place for what I wanted. I wanted the world." #LillianHellman #TheLittleFoxes #classicmovie #BetteDavis #moviequote #theatre #literature

movie scene from "The Little Foxes" (1941) with quotes.

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Lillian Hellman Fan Page @lillianhellman.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

#TheLittleFoxes opened on Feb 15 1939 at National Theatre & ran for 410performances. It's a chilling story of financial & psychological conflicts within a wealthy Southern family Hubbard. #BetteDavis acted the role of evil nasty Regina very well. #lillianhellman #WilliamWyler #classicfilm #theatre

Bette Davis photos as Regina, borrowed from movie scenes of "The Little Foxes" 1941.

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Lillian Hellman Fan Page @lillianhellman.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

One more quote from Act 3 of #thechildrenshour "CARDIN: No,we won’t,darling. 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.” #literature #theatre #lillianhellman #audreyhepburn #shirleymaclaine #quotes

Quote image of "The Children's Hour" by Lillian Hellman

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Lillian Hellman Fan Page @lillianhellman.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Who is Lillian Hellman? lillianhellmanfanpage.blogspot.com/search/label...

AI portrait of Lillian Hellman I generated by Stable Diffusion.

Borrowed from Back cover of MAYBE: photo (c) Richard de Combray. (Thank you)

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Lillian Hellman Fan Page @lillianhellman.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

"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." #thechildrenshour #lillianhellman #audreyhepburn

movie cover of "The Chidren's Hour" by Lillian Hellman.

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