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

At twenty-nine, she was the youngest person ever to win an Oscar for Best Picture.

Her father was a scientist who worked on the Los Alamos project that developed the atomic bomb.

Discloses in her book "You'll never eat lunch in this town again" that she had a brief affair with another patient at a psychiatric facility.

Julia Phillips was the first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Picture (for The Sting (1973) in 1974). She was the only female winner until 1989, when she was joined by Lili Fini Zanuck (who won for Driving Miss Daisy (1989)).

Born in Manhattan, she later grew up in Brooklyn, New York; Great Neck, NY; and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

She died from cancer at her apartment in West Hollywood, CA. She had been diagnosed with cancer in August 2001.

Graduated from Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts.

Unsucessfully tried to make a film adaptation of Erica Jong's best selling novel "Fear of Flying", which would be her directorial debut. Several meetings between her and studio bosses were conducted but she always heard that they weren't interested in making it (she blamed on the male establishment in Hollywood's lack of interest and not audiences interest). As for a possible film version in the future she said in 1990: "The only reason for anyone in Hollywood to buy this book is to suppress it.". As of 2020, the book hasn't been turned into a movie.

Daughter, Kate.

Brother: Matthew Miller.

Was a close friend of Cass Elliot, sometimes playing the card game Canasta with her.

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