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Joy Adamson

Bio: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joy Adamson (20 January 1910 – 3 January 1980) (born Friederike Victoria Gessner) was a naturalist, artist, and author best known for her book, Born Free, which describes her experiences raising a lion cub named Elsa. Born Free was printed in several languages, and made into an Academy Award-winning movie of the same name
Born: Thu, Jan 20 1910
Birthplace: Troppau, Silesia, Austria-Hungary [now Opava, Czech Republic]

Death: Thu, Jan 03 1980
Joy Adamson is 69 years old
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Poster of Elsa the Lioness
Elsa the Lioness
Joy Adamson was
51 in Elsa the Lioness
as 'Self'.
Fri, Feb 03 1961
Poster of R.U.R.
R.U.R.
Joy Adamson was
38 in R.U.R.
as 'Sulla, a robotess'.
Thu, Mar 04 1948

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