Word: karenina
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...Anna Karenina. A pretty young Russian matron gets a certain Count Vronsky interested in stamp collecting and so saves him from wasting his life in passion and frivolity...
...fade even though she is pushing 70. Now a shabby producer who was her lover one night long ago arrives at her villa on Corfu to lure her out of retirement. It is the only way he can get financing for his last-hope project, a remake of Anna Karenina. The star is as ravishing as ever, thanks, it is said, to one of those goat-gland doctors, who is part of her grotesque entourage. Unfortunately the lady seems to be as mad as one of Hedda Hopper's hats (Hedda is but one of dozens of names from...
...working notes Tolstoy made her ugly, giving her a narrow, low forehead and a nose so big that it was almost deformed. But in looks at least, Anna Karenina has been lucky. The author himself fell in love with her, performing a graceful act of plastic surgery before he introduced her to the public, and over the years she has been portrayed by some of the loveliest women in the world. The great Garbo played her twice, and Vivien Leigh added her exquisite beauty to the part 13 years later. In this ten-part series from the BBC, premiering...
...actress who plays Anna is right, Anna Karenina can scarcely fail, and this production rides, like a Moscow sleigh, on Pagett's splendor and charm. Like many other Masterpiece Theater series, it is slow in starting, and Scriptwriter Donald Wilson has created inexcusable confusions in the first three episodes. A viewer will even be hard pressed to tell when and where Anna and her lover...
...Anna Karenina is a story of contrasts, happiness against unhappiness, warmth against cold. It has been told well before, but, except in the book itself, of course, it has never been presented with such building strength and certain inevitability as in this production from...