Actress Meryl Streep was not engaged to actor John Cazale, but they were in a romantic relationship. The two met in 1976 while performing in Measure for Measure at the New York Shakespeare Festival. They soon fell in love. Both appeared in Michael Cimino’s film The Deer Hunter (1978), which was Cazale’s final movie. He died from lung cancer in March 1978, nine months before the movie was released. Streep stayed at his bedside in the hospital to the end of his life, reading the sports page of the newspaper to him every day.
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