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Which actress plays a cancer-stricken mother in the film adaptation of Anna Quindlen's novel 'One True Thing'?

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meryl streep

Who is the author of 'The Return of the Native,' which had its first filmed version starring Catherine Zeta Jones in the 1994 Hallmark Hall of Fame production?

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thomas hardy

Which author's work 'The Cricket on the Hearth' was adapted into Zandonai's opera 'Il Grillo del Focolare'?

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charles dickens

Which novelist's work, 'The Big Sleep', was adapted by screenwriter William Faulkner who found its plot challenging?

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raymond chandler

In which film does Rod Taylor travel from the year 1899 to 802,701 A.D., based on a book by H.G. Wells?

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time machine

What Truman Capote tale was adapted into a TV movie starring Anthony Edwards and Eric Roberts in 1996?

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in cold blood

What William March novel about a grotesquely evil little girl did Maxwell Anderson dramatize?

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bad seed

Who adapted the novel 'The Fountainhead' for the big screen in 1949?

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ayn rand

1951's 'A Place in the Sun' is an adaptation of which classic American novel by Theodore Dreiser?

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american tragedy

Which author wrote the novel that inspired the 1998 film 'Simon Birch,' originally titled 'A Prayer For Owen Meany'?

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john irving

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