21 июл 2019
Fire Over England 1937 with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh
Juhi Thakur
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Marc Kagan
Vivien Leigh was predestined to make her mark in something as sprawling an epic as Gone With The Wind was, for only in midst of so much sturm und drang would Vivien's precise articulate self-control and emotional coolness receive its due. While all others around her were losing their heads, she kept hers. And its no surprise that Vivien would get some of her worst reviews for her finest performance as Anna Karenina, for she was Tolstoy's foolish, self-indulgent, anti-romantic heroine to perfection. When the train came, under it was the only place to go. No tears for such logic. Highly undervalued by the English critics -- what other actress was as capable as she was of speaking the most profound and lengthy dialogue at so rapid a pace, with such brilliant clarity, and without spittle? It took the camera to get to the heart of this woman, and make the need that drove this lovely, lonely spirit all the more appealing for asking nothing for herself except to be allowed to get on with her work. Vivien Leigh born November 5, 1913, made her screen debut in 1934, played Scarlett O'Hara in 1939 and died from tuberculosis in 1967, long after people still died of this obsolete illness. But then, this extraordinary star, unsentimental, detached, neither asking or giving nor expecting sympathy for herself for her characters (the two being far more interchangeable than anyone ever suspected), was nothing if not contrary.
Von Spratenberg
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Marilyn Korsak
in my opinion her real tragedy was Olivier because I think he was overrated while her intelligence and command were vastly more subtle, natural and complex. She was fluidly brilliant and powerful while he was boring tedious and overpowering and probably to her as well. I doubt that husband adoration was her speciality.