Word: vanessa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Monet omitted the smiling women, painting only the dark, smoky blue train station; and the opening shot of Julia is a technicolor replica of his ominous image--an image that is repeated frequently throughout the film. Julia is the story of Lillian Hellman (Jane Fonda) and her childhood friend (Vanessa Redgrave) whom she christens "Julia," who together lost the insular beauty of their adolescence as the Third Reich came into power...
...budget movies, it trades in serious ideas rather than comic-book fantasies, and it even has the guts to buck Hollywood's longstanding embargo on heroines by starring two strong, intelligent women who care about other things than men. Since they are played by Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave, it's hard to imagine how Julia could fail -but fail, to a sad extent, it does. For all the taste, talent and money that have been lavished on this film, it is stubbornly lacking in passion and life...
...ranch just north of Santa Barbara, she and Hayden have set up a center for the 30 California chapters of their movement. When they are not busy with politics or movies, the Haydens live simply in a $40,000 house in Santa Monica with their son Troy, 4, and Vanessa Vadim, 10, her daughter by French Director Roger Vadim...
...newest film, Julia, an autobiographical account of Playwright Lillian Hellman's life in the '30s, offers Fonda and Co-Star Vanessa Redgrave two roles that are far more powerful than most recently available to women. Fonda plays Hellman, and Redgrave plays Hellman's friend Julia, a committed antifascist. The movie opens Oct. 3, and TIME Los Angeles Bureau Chief William Rademaekers talked to Fonda about it and about her life today...
Among such films scheduled for release in the next weeks: The Turning Point, a study of two dancers, with Shirley MacLaine and Anne Bancroft; a version of Lillian Hellman's short story Julia, with Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave; and One Sings, The Other Doesn't, a French work that will open the New York Film Festival this week...