PRODUCER · BORN 1944 · DIED 2002

Julia Phillips

Born

7 April 1944

Died

1 January 2002

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1. #001

   In her book about Hollywood, "You'll Never Eat Lunch In This Town Again," Julia Phillips wrote that actor Warren Beatty asked her in the mid-1980s whether she wanted to have a threesome with him and his thirteen-year-old daughter. Phillips replied: "Warren, we're both too old for you."

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2. #002

   At the age of twenty-nine, Julia Phillips was the youngest person to win an Oscar in the Best Picture category.

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3. #003

   In her book "You'll never eat lunch in this town again," Julia Phillips reveals that she had a brief relationship with another patient at a psychiatric facility.

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   Julia Phillips was the first woman to win the Oscar for Best Picture (in 1974, with The Sting (1973)). She remained the only female winner until Lili Fini Zanuck (Driving Miss Daisy (1989)) in 1989.

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5. #005

   Julia Phillips was born in Manhattan and later grew up in Brooklyn, New York; Great Neck, NY; and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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6. #006

   Julia Phillips died of cancer in her apartment in West Hollywood, CA. She was diagnosed with cancer in August 2001.

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7. #007

   Julia Phillips graduated from Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts.

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8. #008

   Julia Phillips failed to make a film adaptation of Erica Jong's bestselling novel "Fear of Flying," which was to be Jong's directorial debut. Several meetings were held between Phillips and studio bosses, but she was always told they were not interested in making it (she blamed Hollywood's indifference, and the male establishment rather than audience interest). As for a possible future film version, she said in 1990: "The only reason for anyone in Hollywood to buy this book is to suppress it." As of 2020, the book has not been turned into a film.

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9. #009

   Julia Phillips's brother is Matthew Miller.

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10. #010

    Julia Phillips was a close friend of Cass Elliot and sometimes played the card game Canasta with her.

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11. #011

    Julia Phillips produced three films selected by the Library of Congress for the National Film Registry as "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: The Sting (1973), Taxi Driver (1976) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).

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