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Article: PAPA'S WORK GAVE BIRTH TO FILMS BOTH GOOD AND BAD.(DAILY BREAK)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- January 26, 1997
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Byline: MAL VINCENT, ENTERTAINMENT WRITER
ERNEST HEMINGWAY didn't like many of the movies that were made from his novels.
He did have a favorite, though, and a favorite movie star.
He liked what Hollywood did with his short story ``The Killers'' in 1946. The film made stars of both its leads, Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner.
Gardner, the legendary screen beauty, became a close friend of Hemingway's and starred in two other movie versions of his works, ``The Snows of Kilimanjaro'' and ``The Sun Also Rises.''
They met in a hospital in Italy where she was undergoing a gallstone operation and remained friends throughout their ...