The Witches | film by Roeg [1990] | Britannica (original) (raw)

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role of Huston

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  In Anjelica Huston
  …imperious Grand High Witch in The Witches, an adaptation of a children’s novel by Roald Dahl, and as murderous con artist Lilly Dillon in The Grifters, for which she received an Oscar nomination for best actress. That year her intermittent relationship with Nicholson—much discussed in the tabloids—also ended. Huston then…
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work by Dahl

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  In Roald Dahl
  2016), and The Witches (1983; film 1990). One of his last such books, Matilda (1988), was adapted for film (1996 and 2022) and the stage (2010). Many of Dahl’s books have been illustrated by the award-winning illustrator Quentin Blake.
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