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chickenfeet ([personal profile] chickenfeet) wrote2009-04-24 07:11 pm
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And tonight's trivia question is...

Sponsored by being sucked into the Folio Society's spring sale by the offer of all of Daphne du Maurier's Cornish novels...

What is the connection between Daphne du Maurier and A Bridge Too Far?
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[identity profile] buzzy-bee.livejournal.com 2009-04-25 09:35 am (UTC)(link)
Her husband was supposedly the one who actually said it was "a bridge too far".

[identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com 2009-04-25 10:32 am (UTC)(link)
Correct. Her husband was Lt/Gen Boy Browning who commanded First Airborne Corps during Market Garden. In almost the last line of the film he is shown saying"I told monty that it might be a bridge too far".

[identity profile] buzzy-bee.livejournal.com 2009-04-25 10:34 am (UTC)(link)
Apparently she hated how he was portrayed in the film.
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[identity profile] shezan.livejournal.com 2009-04-25 03:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Good Lord, she was Still With Us when that turkey came out?

[identity profile] buzzy-bee.livejournal.com 2009-04-25 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
She only died about ten years ago I think...

fx: checks wikipedia...

Ah, OK. 20 years ago. Last Sunday.
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