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  1. Feb 22, 2019 · In 'Can You Ever Forgive Me', Melissa McCarthy plays Lee Israel forged 400 letters from Dorothy Parker, Noel Coward, Ernest Hemingway and more. McCarthy earned an Academy Award nomination for her ...

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  2. Box office. $12.4 million [3] Can You Ever Forgive Me? is a 2018 American biographical drama film directed by Marielle Heller, with a screenplay by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty based on the 2008 confessional memoir of the same name by Lee Israel. Melissa McCarthy stars as Israel, and the story follows her attempts to revitalize her failing ...

  3. Oct 19, 2018 · 5 fascinating stories about Lee Israel, the real person behind Can You Ever Forgive Me? Melissa McCarthy plays the biographer turned literary forger in the new film based on Israel’s memoir.

  4. Oct 19, 2018 · Can You Ever Forgive Me?, released on Oct. 19, is based on Israel’s memoir of the same name. Directed by Marielle Heller (The Diary of a Teenage Girl) and starring McCarthy as Israel, the film ...

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  5. Oct 20, 2018 · In Can You Ever Forgive Me? out in US theaters yesterday (Oct. 19), Melissa McCarthy plays the disheveled real-life writer, who died in 2015. In her 2008 memoir of the same name, Israel describes ...

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  6. Feb 1, 2019 · Lee Israel: The real-life story behind Oscar-nominated Can You Ever Forgive Me? The new film tells the story of a once-successful biographer who fell into the world of literary forgery

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  8. Sep 28, 2018 · Andrew Henderson/The New York Times Lee Israel in 2008. The story of a down-on-her-luck author who turned to a life of crime to survive sounds like a plot fit only for the movies. And while it is the subject of an upcoming film, there is a real-life figure who inspired the story: author Lee Israel. Israel was a successful writer and biographer ...