26 Apr 2019
J.T. LeRoy
A young woman named Savannah Knoop spends six years pretending to be a transgender writer named JT Leroy, the made-up literary persona of her sister-in-law.
Thomas Hardy: A Haunted Man
Drama documentary from 1978 exploring the private feelings of novelist Thomas Hardy through the poems of love and remorse that he wrote after the death of his first wife, Emma.
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Caroline Blakiston Narrator
Billie Whitelaw Emma Hardy
Cyril Luckham Old Hardy
Ian Lindsay Young Hardy
Elizabeth Proud Florence Hardy
Petronella Barker Mrs Holder
Anne Tirard Mrs Hardy
Claire Oerton Dolly Gale
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