20 Things You Somehow Missed In Once Upon A Time In Hollywood

As previously mentioned, the reason Sharon Tate found herself in a Maltese Falcon-boasting Westwood bookstore in the first place was due to the fact she wanted to buy a copy of Thomas Hardy's Tess Of The D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented for her partner, infamous director Roman Polanski.

Far from being just an old random book, you may have missed the fact that this was actually a novel that eventual fugitive Polanski - who would flee the US in 1977 after pleading guilty to statutory rape - would later go on to direct when it was adapted into a big-screen feature in 1979.

The story goes (via The Wrap) that the director was inspired to make the feature after being gifted a copy of the book by his wife, Tate. In reality, said novel was actually bought when Tate was in Europe, not LA, and after giving Polanski the book and letting him know how she'd love to star in a movie version of it, Tate got on a plane back to America.

That would be the last time her husband saw Sharon, with the late actor being tragically murdered by the Manson family while Polanski stayed in Europe completing a feature.

When the drama, eventually titled Tess, was released a decade later, it contained the words "To Sharon."