Word: vivien
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...romantic comedy, this re-release tells admirably of Lord Nelson's simultaneous battles against various enemy navies and sundry social conventions. A little doctoring of the history books provided Alexander Korda with a vigorous tale about the intrigue between Nelson and Lady Hamilton, and Laurence Olivier then combined with Vivien Leigh in contributing the dramatic talent necessitated by such a plot...
Laurence Olivier, currently screening Hamlet, was right in there with Sir Henry Irving: for his services to Britain's stage & screen, he was made a knight* by George VI. He could now play his Hamlet as Sir Laurence Olivier-and Vivien Leigh, if she wished, could play her forthcoming Anna Karenina as Lady Olivier...
...Harrison as the idealistic journalist can deliver a speech on human rights or a quick Noel Coward-ish line with equal skill. Vivien Leigh lends quiet beauty, while Creel Parker as her father is able to arouse the admiration as well as the ire of the audience. Well buttered with wit, "Storm in a Teacup" at the same time holds political significance for an America that still remembers Huey Long...
King Lear had a shiner. Laurence Olivier, set to play the role in Paris this week, got it in a brawl with a minor Old Vic player who had attacked him, declared Olivier's lawyer, "without any excuse whatever." Wife Vivien Leigh gave the fellow a queenly belt over the head with a poker...
Caesar and Cleopatra. Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains keep Shaw's wit from being buried under several million dollars worth of Technicolored Egypt (TIME...