Today’s Jewish Birthday: Julia Phillips

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Julia Phillips (Photo: Wikipedia)

Julia Phillips (April 7, 1944 – January 1, 2002) was an American film producer and author. She co-produced with her husband Michael (and others) three prominent films of the 1970s—The StingTaxi Driver, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind—and was the first female producer to win an Academy Award for Best Picture, received for The Sting.

In 1991, Phillips published an infamous tell-all memoir of her years as a Hollywood producer, titled You’ll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again, which became a bestseller.

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