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Key People

Leif Panduro

Danish writer

Max Shulman

American writer and humorist

Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard

British writer

Ruth Draper

Ruth Draper

American actress

Jacob Bronowski

British mathematician

Berg, Gertrude

Gertrude Berg

American actress, producer, and screenwriter

Joan Aiken.

Joan Aiken

British author

Adams, Douglas

Douglas Adams

British author

Leo Rosten

American writer

Fay Weldon

British author

Irwin Shaw

American author

Kinoshita Keisuke

Japanese director

Michael Todd

Michael Todd

American showman

Beth Henley

American playwright

Yves Thériault

Canadian writer

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Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale, with her dog, Toto, from the motion picture film The Wizard of Oz (1939); directed by Mervyn LeRay. (cinema, movies)

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