Doctor Zhivago facts

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The CIA rigged the 1958 Nobel Prize selection for literature by buying thousands of copies of "Doctor Zhivago" in Europe. The CIA also printed pocket copies of the book and distributed them to Soviet tourists in the West.

The actress who played Doctor Zhivago's wife, Geraldine Chaplin, was Charlie Chaplin's daughter.

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