Word: leighs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mary Lamb threw a fork at a domestic, missed the girl, but harpooned her feeble-minded father. Then she killed her mother with a carving knife. Such behavior was considered extraordinary even in literary circles that included Cole ridge, Godwin, Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt and De Quincey. While friends hushed up the tragic affair, Mary Lamb was sent away to a private asylum (Charles had already passed six weeks in the Hoxton mad house). Coleridge wrote her letters of metaphysical commiseration, which baffled Charles and may have enraged Mary. One day after her release she was quietly talking to Coleridge. Suddenly...
...Biggest disappointment: Vivien Leigh & Laurence Olivier's Romeo and Juliet...
...John Gals worthy's ponderous gibes at justice. The Lord Chief Justice of England and associate bigwigs are made to appear as a clique of underbrained, overfed dodos. The antics of a desperate adolescent (Laurence Olivier) who gets mixed up with a White Russian girl (Vivien Leigh), inadvertently kills her bigamist husband, appear some how noble. The lifelong efforts of his elder brother (Leslie Banks) to make a career on the British bench appear some how ignoble. Occasionally tense, usually laggard, 21 Days Together will chiefly thrill devotees of the Leigh-Olivier Liebestraum. It is reported...
...Bridge is no longer a tale of a shy Canadian soldier who falls in love with a shy London trull. It is the story of a good-looking, upper-class British officer (Robert Taylor) who, during an air raid, conceives an undying passion for a good-looking ballerina (Vivien Leigh). After causing her to lose her job, he has to go off to the war before he can marry her. The young lady turns to prostitution...
...Waterloo Bridge has its points. Expensively produced, it successfully continues Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's intensive he-manizing of Robert Taylor. Booted, trench-coated and sporting a dark, hairline mustache (the inspiration of Director Mervyn LeRoy), Cinemactor Taylor is a dashing officer. His continual kissing of Cinemactress Leigh may become a little tiresome to nonparticipants. But one kiss, after which the camera highlights and hangs suspended upon the languid Taylor lips, should go a long way toward rehabilitating Cinemactor Taylon with his fickle feminine fans and re-establishing him as a valuable studio property...