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Lillian Roth
American actress, singer
1910 – 1980aged 69
A Broadway and film singer-actress whose brutally candid 1954 memoir about her alcoholism, I'll Cry Tomorrow, broke a decades-long taboo against public confession of addiction. The book's 1955 film adaptation earned Susan Hayward, who played Roth, an Academy Award nomination for portraying her.