Philip Roth
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Philip Milton Roth was an American novelist and short-story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosop
Roth c. 1980s
Roth's 1950 yearbook photo
Roth in 1967
Roth in 1973
Claire Bloom
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Patricia Claire Bloom is an English actress. She is known for leading roles on stage and screen and has received two BAFTA Awards, an Emmy award and a Drama Desk Award, as well as nominations for a Gr
Philip Roth
…It's filled with fear and loneliness and anxiety—and I never needed religion to save me." In 1990, Roth married his longtime companion, English actress Claire Bloom, with whom he had been living since 1976. According to Bloom, when she asked him to marry her, he agreed on the condition that she sign a prenuptial…
Bloom in 2011
Bloom in The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
With John Neville in Romeo and Juliet (1957)
With Charlie Chaplin in Limelight (1952)