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The Ghost Writer

  • Episode aired Jan 17, 1984
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American Playhouse (1980)
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Nathan Zuckerman is a promising young writer who spends a night in the home of E.I. Lonoff, an established author whom Zuckerman idolizes. Also staying in the Lonoff home is Amy Bellette, a ... Read allNathan Zuckerman is a promising young writer who spends a night in the home of E.I. Lonoff, an established author whom Zuckerman idolizes. Also staying in the Lonoff home is Amy Bellette, a young woman with a vague past whom the narrator apparently comes to suspect of being Anne ... Read allNathan Zuckerman is a promising young writer who spends a night in the home of E.I. Lonoff, an established author whom Zuckerman idolizes. Also staying in the Lonoff home is Amy Bellette, a young woman with a vague past whom the narrator apparently comes to suspect of being Anne Frank, living in the United States anonymously, having survived the Holocaust.

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    • Tristram Powell
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    • Tristram Powell
    • Philip Roth
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    • Mark Linn-Baker
    • Claire Bloom
    • Sam Wanamaker
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    7.1/10
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    • Director
      • Tristram Powell
    • Writers
      • Tristram Powell
      • Philip Roth
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      • Mark Linn-Baker
      • Claire Bloom
      • Sam Wanamaker
    • 6Critic reviews
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    Paulette Smit
    • Amy Bellette
    MacIntyre Dixon
    MacIntyre Dixon
    • Dr. Zuckerman
    Joseph Wiseman
    Joseph Wiseman
    • Judge Wapter
    Rose Arrick
    • Mrs. Zuckerman
    Harriet Wilson
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    Ralph G. Morse
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      The Sam Wanamaker character is an American author who lives in a farmhouse in New England with his wife, played by Claire Bloom. At the time this adaptation of his book was made, author Philip Roth was living in a farmhouse in New England with Bloom, whom he would marry in 1990.
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      • Nathan Zuckerman: Were "The Diary of Anne Frank" known to be the work of a living writer, it would never be more than a young teenager's diary of her trying years in hiding during the German occupation of Holland, something boys and girls could read in bed at night along with "The Adventures of the Swiss Family Robinson." But dead, she had something more to offer than amusement for ages 10-15. Dead, she had written a book, without meaning to or trying to, a book with the force of a masterpiece.

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      • January 17, 1984 (United States)
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