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movies adapted from short stories

can you name these story adaptations based on information about the movies and the underlying stories?
this quiz is about the movie adaptations; where the movie's title differs from the story's, enter the movie's
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year
starring
title
story year
author
2005
Heath Ledger
Brokeback Mountain
1997
Annie Proulx
1954
James Stewart
Rear Window
1942
Cornell Woolrich
2008
Brad Pitt
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
1922
F. Scott Fitzgerald
1946
Ava Gardner
The Killers
1927
Ernest Hemingway
1999
Christina Ricci
Sleepy Hollow
1820
Washington Irving
1985
Jeffrey Combs
Re-Animator
1922
H.P. Lovecraft
1950
Bette Davis
All About Eve
1946
Mary Orr
2013
Ben Stiller
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
1939
James Thurber
1938
Katharine Hepburn
Bringing Up Baby
1937
Hagar Wilde
2004
Hilary Swank
Million Dollar Baby
2000
F.X. Toole
2007
Russell Crowe
3:10 to Yuma
1953
Elmore Leonard
1986
Jeff Goldblum
The Fly
1957
George Langelaan
1950
Toshiro Mifune
Rashomon
1922
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
2000
Guy Pearce
Memento
2001
Jonathan Nolan
1968
Keir Dullea
2001: A Space Odyssey
1951, 1953
Arthur C. Clarke
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