Lee Israel had a legitimate career as an author of biographies. Her first book on Tallulah Bankhead was a New York Times bestseller, and her second, on the late journalist and reporter Dorothy Kilgallen, made a splash in the headlines. But by 1990, almost broke and desperate to hang onto her Upper West Side studio, Lee made a bold and irreversible career change: inspired by a letter she'd received once from Katharine Hepburn, and armed with her considerable skills as a researcher and celebrity biographer, she began to forge letters in the voices of literary greats.

Between 1990 and 1991, she wrote more than three hundred letters in the voices of, among others, Dorothy Parker, Louise Brooks, Edna Ferber, Lillian Hellman, and Noel Coward and sold the forgeries to memorabilia and autograph dealers.

(Academy Award nominations for: Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay)

General

Studio:	20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Release date:	14 June 2019
Actors:	Melissa McCarthy • Richard E. Grant • Dolly Wells • Jane Curtin • Ben Falcone
Directors:	Marielle Heller
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Running time:	1 hour, 46 minutes
Region encoding:	Region 2. This DVD will play in all South African DVD players.
Age restriction:	13 PGL
Categories:	Movies & TV > Drama Movies & TV > True Story Promotions Movies & TV > Oscar Nominees
LSN:	XWU-8U7-AS5-2
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