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TIL Andie MacDowell’s first big break was the role of Jane in “Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan,” but her lines were dubbed by Glenn Close because her Southern accent was too pronounced for her to play the role of an Englishwoman. Ironically, in the original book, Jane was an American Southerner.

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