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Caesar and Cleopatra--at Loew's Center--A revival of Rank's excellent movie. If you couldn't get to see Vivien Leigh as Cleopatra in New York, now's your chance. Claude Rains is Caesar...
Best Actress: Vivien Leigh, for her portrayal of Streetcar's faded, tippling, Southern heroine...
...Olivier, indeed, represents Caesar as stooped, weary, elderly-an excellent piece of acting, but a doubtful interpretation. For (what surely Shaw never intended) Olivier's Caesar is a man past being tempted by a minx, rather than one who declines the gambit for fear of being hurt. Vivien Leigh's Cleopatra is a willful, naughty, coaxing, charming child, more fully characterized than Lilli Palmer's perfect cuddling kitten, but almost as much enfant terrible as budding jemme fatale...
...impulsive, audacious, angry, half-aging lion and half-untamed whelp; he is not-as Godfrey Tearle was so brilliantly-an assured leader with the weakened fiber and amorous susceptibilities of late middle age. As Antony, Olivier is a good actor, but not the architect of a commanding role. Vivien Leigh's Cleopatra is an all-too-believable enchantress -mercurial, irresistible, even royal; only not of Shakespearean depth and stature. Actress Leigh mistakes mere emotionalism for intensity; she intones-while half-violating - some of her greatest lines...
...Streetcar Named Desire. Tennessee Williams' Broadway drama; with Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter (TIME, Sept...