Showing posts with label Olivier. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Olivier. Show all posts
Wednesday, 5 July 2017

Khartoum. again.

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KHARTOUM , 1966. I had forgotten how good  KHARTOUM  is, directed by stalwart Basil Dearden, and 2nd Unit (presumably those battle scenes...
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Friday, 12 May 2017

Back to 1957 with ....

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When I was 11 in 1957, a favourite movie magazine - one of the American fan ones - was maybe called " Screen Stories ", featuring...
Wednesday, 2 November 2016

Showpeople: favourite fotos

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Part of our Showpeople strand here - see label for previous - focusing on some fascinating snaps of Marilyn, Marlon and Sir Larry ..... ...
Sunday, 21 August 2016

Summer re-vews: favourite Spartacus moments

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Though I have the dvd and have seen it several times, it was on television again (with no commercials) so it seemed a good idea to record i...
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Saturday, 13 August 2016

Theatre still of the day: Vivien Leigh ....

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... as Tatiana in A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM in 1937, photograph by J B Debenham, (the image is advertising a current theatre exhib...
Friday, 22 July 2016

Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York ...

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To the Almeida Theatre in London for their current production, The Bard's RICHARD III in a highly praised production by director Rup...
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Wednesday, 29 June 2016

Vivien

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The first paragraph of Alexander Walker’s 1987 biography of Vivien Leigh captures the gilded high-life of the then theatre’s golden coupl...
Tuesday, 16 June 2015

Rebecca at 75

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No, not REBECCA and those Forties dramas!  Fascinating too to see REBECCA again, this lush Forties romantic drama/mystery, typically Hi...
Thursday, 23 April 2015

The Prince and the Showgirl: a 1957 review

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There seems to be an impression that THE PRINCE AND THE SHOWGIRL was a damp squib back in 1957 and did not get very good reviews and the g...
Wednesday, 18 March 2015

How now, Othello ?

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Dipping into that Shakespeare backlog (6 HAMLET s, 4 MACBETH s, Olivier as Shylock, Welles as Falstaff, etc) finally, we get to see Laure...
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Sunday, 25 January 2015

Showpeople: stars go to the theatre too

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When filming THE PRINCE AND THE SHOWGIRL in London in 1956, Marilyn gamely trouped around the theatres with husband Arthur Miller, and Oli...
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Friday, 16 January 2015

Costume drama heaven with Tom and Lady Caroline

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What bliss over this bad weather to watch that 1963 hit TOM JONES again, and also to see a rare screening of the 1972 LADY CAROLINE LAMB...