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Viveca Lindfors
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In actual fact, Viveca Lindfors had been a young Swedish film star with George Tabori, her Hungarian-playwright husband. And for years they ran the Berkshire Drama Festival. Tabori created the long-running BRECHT ON BRECHT— and more specifically the part of The Jewish Wife—for her, in which she glowingly starred at the Theater de Lys. He ... adopted her son, Kristoffer. And then he left her in 1972 for—the old clippings say—a younger woman.
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Helena (Viveca Lindfors) is the true emotional center of the film. I don’t know what it is about aging silver screen stars, but when ravishing beauties overflowing with talent get into their later years, there is such an air of wisdom and experience about them that everyone else around them just seems foolish, vain and egocentric. Think of Jeanne Moreau or Catherine Deneuve. Viveca (dropping her ‘Helena’ persona briefly) reminisces about her past in film and at one point discusses the leading men she played off in the late 40s: Errol Flynn and Ronald Reagan, as she’s watching tapes of her own old films (Adventures of Don Juan, where Flynn saves her, as an absolutely ravishing Queen Margaret of Spain, from a traitor’s skullduggery; and Night Unto Night, about the relationship between a dying scientist and a mentally disturbed widow) on the television late at night.
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This Biblical epic stars Elana Eden as Ruth, who serves in the temple where the High Priestess (Viveca Lindfors) leads the worship of the Pagan idols of the people of Moab. When Ruth falls in love with Mahlon (Tom Tryon), a Hebrew, she must come to terms with his spiritual beliefs, but in time she embraces his faith and converts to Judaism when they marry. Ruth travels with Mahlon and his mother Naomi (Peggy Wood) to their homeland of Bethlehem. Ruth suffers hardship and religious persecution, and when Mahlon dies, Ruth's faith is severely tested. But her belief in God survives this trial by fire, and in time Ruth finds a new love with.
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Grayam's boss Josh Reynolds (Stacy Harris) tries to save his job by arranging for help through psychiatrist Elizabeth Larstadt (Viveca Lindfors), but while undergoing therapy the pressure gets to him and he displays irrational temper tantrums. The industrialist persists in his attempt to drive the scientist insane. Grayam resorts to talking the reluctant Lorrie into helping him pretend to be insane. He then murders Cort in a public lecture hall with the intention of eliminating his nemesis and being found not guilty for reasons of insanity. At the trial Larstadt is aware that Grayam's faking insanity to beat going to prison, but for unexplained reasons testifies in his favor anyway. Grayam is sent to a mental institution, where he believes he will be soon set free when it's discovered that he's regained his sanity. But Grayam's plan goes awry once in the asylum, as he begins to really snap when Lorrie deserts him and his fellow inmates unnerve him.
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Viveca Lindfors was born in Uppsala, Uppsala län, Sweden. In 1990, while walking to a New York theatre production she was appearing in, Viveca was assaulted and her face slashed. After receiving stitches for the wound, she continued on to the rehearsal.
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For her filmwork, Lindfors won her first Best Actress Award from the BFF in 1951 for Die Vier im Jeep (Four in a Jeep). Her second BFF Best Actress Award was for her role in Huis Clos (No Exit) (1962). In her personal life, Lindfors was renowned for her numerous romantic liaisons -- this in a decade when such behavior was considered shocking. She claims to have married the first of her four husbands just to prove that a promiscuous woman could indeed marry a decent man.
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