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Vivien Leigh is Anna Karenina, Ralph Richardson is Alexei Karenin, and Kieron Moore is Count Vronsky in this British production of Tolstoy's tragic romance. This adapation does not have the romantic flavor of the Garbo version though Leigh is as magnetic an Anna as Garbo was. It's not a bad film, but something seems askew and one can't quite figure out what it is. Leigh's Anna is allowed to be flightier, and, in small ways, less enigmatic than Garbo's. Kieron Moore may actually be closer physically to one's perception of the handsome, and ultimately insignificant Vronsky, but his portrayal makes one wonder why Anna did not see his shallowness. With: Sally Ann Howes as Kitty Scherbatsky, Niall MacGinnis as Levin, Martita Hunt as princess Betty Tversky, Marie Lohr as Princess Scherbatsky, Michal Gough as Nicholai, Hugh Dempster as Stefan Oblonsky, Mary Kerridge as dolly Oblonsky, Heather Thatcher as countess Lydia Ivanova, Helen Haye as Countess Vronsky, Austin Trevor as Colonel Vronsky, ruby Miller as Countess Meskov. Notes: Screenplay by Jean Anouilh, Julien Duvivier, guy Morgan from the novel by Tolstoy. Produced by Alexander Korda.
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Actress Vivien Leigh was born Vivian Mary Hartley in Darjeeling, India. From the ages of six to 15 she was educated in English convent schools, where she showed aptitude for the performing arts; then her education was polished off in European finishing schools. (According to Mia Farrow, 7-year-old Vivian told Farrow's mother Maureen O'Sullivan, who was a schoolmate, that she "was going to be famous.") At 18 she enrolled in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and at 19 she married barrister Leigh Holman, whose name she used to create her stage name, Vivien Leigh. A year later, still studying acting, she had a daughter, Suzanne.
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Vivien Leigh has been named as the greatest British beauty of all time in a new poll. -The Oscar-winning Gone With the Wind actress, who died in 1967, beat other Hollywood A-listers including Elizabeth Taylor and Julie Christie to the top spot. -Leigh is best known fo
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Vivien Leigh's own life had been one of extremes. Born in 1913 in India, separated in childhood from her mother, she struggled with depression and hysteria before contracting tuberculosis. She fought the disease throughout her life until finally succumbing to it in 1967. But these bare facts do not explain her peculiar 'poetic' nervousness.
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