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The book was adapted into a 1990 film of the same name starringMeryl StreepandShirley MacLaine.
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Hollywood, in turn, adapted the book into a feature film in 1975.
The book was infamously adapted into an offensive, universally panned film.
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Dawn is actually Queenie, a half-caste Indian woman running from a secret past.
The novel spawned a reviled but successful1967 film adaptation.
The protagonist, Maria, is a slumping middle-aged actress recovering from a nervous breakdown.

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All of this plays out, intriguingly, against the backdrop of the culturally turbulent ’60s and ’70s.
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