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Across 644 sold-out Broadway performances, the drama demolished the wall between what could and couldn't be said on the American stage and marked a definitive end to the I Love Lucy 1950s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThen, Hollywood took a colossal gamble on Albee's sophisticated play—and won. Co-starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, the sensational 1966 film minted first-time director Mike Nichols as industry royalty and won five Oscars. How this scorching play became a movie classic—surviving censorship attempts, its director's inexperience, and its stars' own tumultuous marriage—is one of the most riveting stories in all of cinema.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNow, acclaimed author Philip Gefter tells that story in full for the first time, tracing Woolf from its hushed origins in Greenwich Village's bohemian enclave, through its tormented production process, to its explosion onto screens across America and a permanent place in the canon of cinematic marriages. 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