Sir Tom had huge success with Billy Liar on stage and film and also in Doctor Zhivago, for which he received his first Oscar nomination.

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All I could think of was the Cossacks in Doctor Zhivago.

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The proud studio that once put out films like Gone With the Wind and Doctor Zhivago has been reduced to middling hits like Hot Tub Time Machine and outright failures like the recent Fame remake.

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