Amanda Foreman

author, 'Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire'

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Author of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, which is now the major motion picture The Duchess,  starring Keira Knightley; daughter of Carl Foreman, the blacklisted scriptwriter of such classics as High Noon and Bridge over the River Kwai

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