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Based on the 1984 book. The movie was turned into an award-winning comedy musical by Cameron Macintosh.

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Director: William K. Howard. Also starred Ralph Morgan, Robert Middlemiss & Jean Brooks. Plot: Dr.John Mandre (Edmund Lowe), brain specialist, is barred from the medical profession when he performs a delicate operation, and he is accused of letting the patient die because of his affection for the man's wife.

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Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist. Best known for his four 'Rabbit' novels, Updike was a prolific man of letters and erudite chronicler of sex, divorce and other adventures in the postwar prime of the American empire; writing novels, short stories, poems, criticism, the memoir ''Self-Consciousness'' and even a famous essay about baseball great Ted Williams. b. 18 March 1932 (Reading, Pennsylvania, USA) d. 27 January 2009 (Danvers, Massachusetts, USA)

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They Died in 2009

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