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Patricia Bauer
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Assistant Editor, Encyclopaedia Britannica. She has a B.A. with a double major in Spanish and in theatre arts from Ripon College. She previously worked on the Britannica Book of the Year and was a member of Britannica's Copy Department.

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Louise Fletcher in One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975).
American dramatic film, released in 1975, that was based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Ken Kesey. The movie, directed by Miloš Forman and starring Jack Nicholson, was the first film since It Happened One Night (1934) to win the Academy Awards for best picture, director, lead actor, lead actress, and screenplay. It also earned six Golden Globe Awards, including that for best drama, and six BAFTA Awards, including that for best film, and was selected in 1993 for preservation in the National Film Registry. The movie is set during the early 1960s in the security ward of a state mental hospital and begins with the unit’s morning routine. Nurse Ratched (played by Louise Fletcher) enters for work, and the patients line up to receive their medications. A new inmate, R.P. McMurphy (Nicholson), arrives as a transfer from a prison work farm. As soon as he arrives on the ward, McMurphy begins interfering with the routines established by Nurse Ratched. At a group therapy session, McMurphy...
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