Word: vanessa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Blow-Up and Georgy Girl making boffo box office, the wave of acclaim had temporarily deposited both Redgrave girls in the U.S. Lynn was in Manhattan playing a dippy deb and bringing down the house night after night in the funniest show on Broadway: Peter Shaffer's Black Comedy. Vanessa was in Hollywood, playing Queen Guinevere in her first cinemammoth: a $17 million movie version of Broadway's Camelot, in which she sings in a musky mezzo and looks like a rain-washed daffodil in a fire-green Sussex meadow. On April 10, they will both take...
...Goddess. All that's exciting in the new cast of cinema characters is prepotently present in Lynn and Vanessa Redgrave. They look, to begin with, like no other actresses currently facing clapper cues?and certainly not like each other. Both are tall, but Vanessa is the taller by a smidgen; at 5 ft. 10½ in., she is the skyscrapingest screen queen in filmsville. (Garbo, though her pressagent insisted that she was only 5 ft. 7, wore flat heels in Grand Hotel but still swayed high above John Barrymore, whose pressagent insisted that he stood 5 ft. 10.) For her height...
Lynn, on the contrary, looks like a hockey star trying to look like a movie star. She seems to be bigger than Vanessa and to have more arms and legs?quite nice legs that somehow look sexy even though they are semaphorically knock-kneed. Lynn, continues Ustinov, "gives the impression of knocking things down by mistake because she doesn't know her tail is wagging." She has a kewpie-doll face countersunk in a strawberry-blonde mane; she wears what looks like fluorescent face powder; and she sometimes paints her lower lashes, Twiggy-style, so far below the natural eyeline...
...Give As to a Lover." Vanessa, on the contrary, seems born to be a great leading lady, the Duse of the coming decade. She has that magic in her that all the great ones have: a sense of mystery and radiance in her presence. When she first appears on stage or screen, the spectator feels his skin begin to prickle. In A Man for All Seasons, she appeared in a single scene and spoke a single line, but the aura of her Anne Boleyn was so enthralling that she got more attention from many critics than most of the featured...
...Vanessa's way of working is dead opposite to Lynn's. Where Lynn begins with imitation and ends with insight, Vanessa begins with an idea of the character and ends with an illustration of that idea in gestures. Her roles are thought out logically and constructed move by move. She is a much more intellectual actress than Lynn, but no less imaginative and emotional for all that. If anything, she is even more passionately devoted to her profession. "I give myself to my parts as to a lover," she explains. "It is the only...