Word: actressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West End plays; by 1959 she was signed on at the Stratford Old Vic; and in a 1961 production of As You Like It, she played a Rosalind of such fire and grace that most theater people were agreed: for the next 25 years any actress who values her reputation will think twice before playing Rosalind in England...
...everything happened to Vanessa first. Offered a part in Morgan!, she decided to take a stab at pictures. The public got the point all right. To Vanessa's amazement, millions acclaimed her as the most exciting thing the British had produced since radar. Director Antonioni, casting for a British actress to play in Blow-Up, had heard about Vanessa. "I had not met her before," he recalls, "but I looked at stacks of her photos and concluded that she was the one I wanted. But I didn't know if she really would accept the part. After all, it wasn...
...rally in Castro-style battle dress and sang a Cuban revolutionary song. Sometimes Vanessa suffers for her romantic impetuosity, but then, as Corin points out, "Vanessa likes to suffer." She transforms her sufferings into performances. "She is mad," Sir Michael says, "I mean divinely mad. She is an inspired actress...
...other nominees for Best Actress: Anouk Aimee (Un Homme et Une Femme), Elizabeth Taylor (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), and Ida Kaminska (The Shop on Main Street...
...sees-much as Bruegel once did in Flanders-that the occupants are really having a Hell of a time. Persona, his 27th film, fuses two of Bergman's familiar obsessions: personal loneliness and the particular anguish of contemporary woman. It is the story of a great stage actress (Liv Ullman), suddenly become mute and detached while starring in a production of Electra. She is afflicted with what medieval theologians called accidie-a total indifference to life. Her doctor insists that her inactivity is simply another form of roleplaying, and he sends her packing to a villa on the Baltic...