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TIL Robin Williams was one of just 20 students accepted into Julliard in 1973. While his comedic genius was immediately obvious, he wasn't taken seriously until his portrayal of a wheelchair-bound old man in the Tennessee Williams play "The Night of the Iguana" during a third-year acting class.

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