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...movie Mary, Queen of Scots, with Vanessa Redgrave in the title role and Glenda Jackson as her archrival, is playing in more than a dozen U.S. cities. Jackson is also starred in TV's Elizabeth R, a six-part series that has broken all ratings records for noncommercial television and is up for seven Emmy awards next week. On the New York stage, Robert Bolt's Vivat! Vivat Regina!, with Claire Bloom as Mary and Eileen Atkins as Elizabeth, has just finished a Broadway run and is scheduled to go on tour in the fall. Also...
York's next film was "Red and Blue" with Vanessa Redgrave, followed by "Smashing Time" with sister Lynn and Rita Tushingham. In 1966 he launched himself into the world of television as Young Jolyon in the BBC's popular adaptation of "The Forsyte Saga." During the summer of '67 York worked with Zeffirelli in Rome as Tybalt in "Romeo and Juliet." Then he returned to twentieth century England for a persona as a young policeman in "The Strange Affair." Alexandria beckoned in "Justine" with Anouk Aimee, but "of all the films I've made. I like that one the least...
...fine actresses, Vanessa Redgrave and Glenda Jackson, give some force and substance to this otherwise dreary history. The script seems to be made up of captions from some educational coloring book, and the story itself has become hackneyed through innumerable incarnations as a play, a previous film, even a television spectacular. Save for the two ladies, there is little apparent justification for mak ing this version, and even less for seeing...
...program of Playwright Robert Shaw's Cato Street in London credited Actress Vanessa Redgrave with cutting the play from four hours to 2½. In her getup for her role of Susan Thistlewood-a radical conspirator of 1820-Miss Redgrave looked capable of cutting just about anything she set her hand to. In any case, Cato Street ended its run, leaving Redgrave watchers with nothing but a memorable pinup...
...equal parts of the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Living Theater and Bedlam. The supporting cast (Dudley Sutton and Michael Gothard most prominent among them) act like a chorus and look like creatures from a Bosch triptych. Oliver Reed is suitably forceful as Grandier; it is indeed his best performance. Vanessa Redgrave, a consummate actress, is fine as Sister Jeanne, except that she tends to get lost amidst all the sound and fury...