She has a benefactress in Philomena Guinea, a formerly successful fiction writer (based on Olive Higgins Prouty), who will, later during Esther's hospitalization, pay for some of her treatments.
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Larry Peerce's The Bell Jar (1979) starred Marilyn Hassett as Esther Greenwood, the protagonist and featured the tagline: "Sometimes just being a woman is an act of courage."
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According to her husband, Plath began writing the novel in 1961, after publishing her first collection of poetry, The Colossus.
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After Animal House Weller went on to play the sole non-suicidal character in The Bell Jar, Martin Kove's wife in the monster movie Blood Tide, Chuck Norris' girlfriend in the martial arts action film Forced Vengeance, and a small part in Larry Cohen's tongue-in-cheek monster-on-the-loose film Q - The Winged Serpent.