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Best-selling book, popular play, but Rosalind Russell made the character come to life in vibrant technicolor. It’s the story of an extravagant and bombastic woman who reconnects with her nephew while teaching him to write words down that he doesn’t understand to look up later.

She fights off a Scottish author, tells her matronly assistant to get out there and live, and sees the boy she grows to treat as a son become a man. It’s an extraordinary life, and it’s the non-musical version of it.

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