My Fair Lady. Poster of the 1964 movie and cover of the 1956 book, Pygmalion
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Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw, 1956
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George Cukor, 1964

In London, Professor Henry Higgins, a scholar of phonetics, believes that the accent and tone of one’s voice determines a person’s prospects in society. He agrees to a wager that he can make Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl with a thick, unintelligible accent, presentable in high society.


Cleopatra. Poster of the 1963 movie and cover of the 1957 book, The Life and Times of Cleopatra
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The Life and Times of Cleopatra
C M Franzero, 1957
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1963

After the Battle of Pharsalus in 48 BC, Julius Caesar goes to Egypt, under the pretext of being named the executor of the will of the young Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII and his sister Cleopatra’s father. Caesar, in effective control of the kingdom, sentences Pothinus to death for arranging an assassination attempt on Cleopatra, and banishes Ptolemy to the eastern desert, where he and his outnumbered army would face certain death against Mithridates.


Anna and the King of Siam. Poster of the 1946 movie and cover of the 1943 book
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Anna and the King of Siam
Margaret Landon, 1943
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John Cromwell, 1946

In 1862, Anna Owens arrives in Bangkok, with her son Louis, to tutor the children of the King. However, when the Kralahome or Prime Minister comes out to welcome her, he asks her a number of personal questions, and she does not know that this is common courtesy in Siam.


Doctor Dolittle. Poster of the 1967 movie and cover of the 1920 book, The Story of Doctor Dolittle
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The Story of Doctor Dolittle
Hugh Lofting, 1920
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Richard Fleischer, 1967

Dr. John Dolittle lives in a small English village where he specializes in caring for and verbally communicating with animals. When Dr. Dolittle is unjustly sent to an insane asylum for freeing a lovesick seal from captivity, his animals and two closest human friends, Matthew Mugg and Tommy Stubbins, liberate him. Afterward, they join Emma Fairfax and set out by boat to find a famed and elusive creature: the Great Pink Sea Snail.


Doctor Dolittle. Poster of the 1967 movie and cover of the 1924 book, The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
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The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
Hugh Lofting, 1924
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Richard Fleischer, 1967

Dr. John Dolittle lives in a small English village where he specializes in caring for and verbally communicating with animals. When Dr. Dolittle is unjustly sent to an insane asylum for freeing a lovesick seal from captivity, his animals and two closest human friends, Matthew Mugg and Tommy Stubbins, liberate him. Afterward, they join Emma Fairfax and set out by boat to find a famed and elusive creature: the Great Pink Sea Snail.


Doctor Dolittle. Poster of the 1967 movie and cover of the 1922 book, Doctor Dolittle's Circus
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Doctor Dolittle's Circus
Hugh Lofting, 1922
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Richard Fleischer, 1967

Dr. John Dolittle lives in a small English village where he specializes in caring for and verbally communicating with animals. When Dr. Dolittle is unjustly sent to an insane asylum for freeing a lovesick seal from captivity, his animals and two closest human friends, Matthew Mugg and Tommy Stubbins, liberate him. Afterward, they join Emma Fairfax and set out by boat to find a famed and elusive creature: the Great Pink Sea Snail.


A Time to Die. Poster of the 1982 movie and cover of the 1967 book, Six Graves to Munich
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Six Graves to Munich
Mario Puzo, 1967
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Matt Cimber, Joe Tornatore, 1982

A World War II vet sets out in 1948 to avenge the death of his wife at the hands of Nazis. His targets are four Germans, a Sicilian, and a Hungarian who committed the atrocities. He is aided by a CIA operative, who has another agenda. One of the targeted men is being groomed by the US to become the West German chancellor and is to be protected. Along the way, a third person joins the team.