She had once dominated Broadway, writing 12 plays in a quarter of a century—an astonishing achievement at a time when most playwrights were male. But she died with a cloud of ill repute hanging over her life and work
. Lillian Hellman was outraged: “I’m still alive,” she barked at Peter Feibleman, her friend and occasional lover. “How dare they forget about me!”
Hollywood adapted it into a film starring Bette Davis two years later. Now, nearly four decades after her death, the Donmar Warehouse in London is staging a production of “Watch on the Rhine”, which Hellman wrote on the brink of the second world war. The redoubtable Hellman wanted—and surely deserved—a place in the history books. When it seemed in doubt, she decided to fight for it. After that painful article in the, she began writing “An Unfinished Woman” , the first in a series of memoirs she hoped would cement her reputation.
Perhaps the most extraordinary account comes in “Pentimento”, her book of 1973. Hellman, who was herself Jewish, recalls smuggling $50,000 in a hatbox through Berlin for a friend named Julia in the anti-Nazi resistance. Yet this story unravelled in 1979 when Mary McCarthy, an author and one of Hellman’s long-time adversaries, claimed on television that “every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’.
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