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Caesar and Cleopatra. Shaw's wit, elegantly tossed around by Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains, amid several million dollars' worth of Egypt (TIME...
Caesar and Cleopatra. Shaw's wit, elegantly tossed around by Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains, amid several million dollars' worth of Egypt (TIME...
Caesar and Cleopatra. Shaw's wit, elegantly tossed around by Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains, amid several million dollars worth of ancient Egypt (TIME...
Shaw once wrote that "Caesar is greater off the battlefield than on it." Claude Rains's excellent performance makes that observation valid. As for Vivien Leigh, probably few actresses could have drawn as much fun, understanding and beauty out of Shaw's exquisite, violent, brilliant baby Queen. There are other excellent jobs: Flora Robson as Ftatateeta, Cleopatra's savage nurse; Anthony Harvey as her petulant, bewildered little brother; Francis L. Sullivan as the corrupt councilor, and Stewart Granger as Apollodorus...
Laurence Olivier & wife Vivien Leigh hopped home to England from Manhattan -in fits & starts. First stop: Windham, Conn., where their giant four-motored Constellation, minus a motor dropped on the Connecticut countryside, was skillfully crash-landed in a 3,000-foot belly-skid. Declared Olivier: ". . . None of us was frightened at all." Seven hours later, 41 of the 42 passengers-all but a thoughtful Catholic priest-tried it again in another plane, and made...