Omnibus (1967)

Lillian Hellman (1979x1)

Air date: Feb 08, 1979

Omnibus presents Lillian Hellman, one of America's major playwrights, talking to Peter Adam at her New England home. A legend in her lifetime, Miss Hellman was recently portrayed by Jane Fonda in the film Julia. Her plays, her political stands and her extraordinary life have kept her in the limelight for the last 40 years. A friend of Dorothy Parker and Dashiell Hammett , of Eisenstein, Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald , LILLIAN HELLMAN has fought, drunk and celebrated with many show business and literary personalities. At 72 she is still as formidable, angry, tender, witty and tough as she has always been. Including extracts from some of her plays.