Leigh is so straight forward and simple in her performance she makes it look like anyone could do what she is doing - which is the sign of a true master.
Apparently her "sisters" in GWTW were amazed at how quick she learnt her lines. She would just look at pages and pages before shooting a scene and learn all the lines on the spot.
I must have watched these two acts a dozen times by now. Vivien Leigh is totally bewitching. She is so talented and so charming. We'll not see her like again.
What a talented performer ..notwithstanding her passing some 54 years ago, on 7th July, 1967 to be exact, the world has yet to discover someone as gifted as Lady Vivien Leigh in her very very unique ways...
Vivien Leigh, one of the greatest and most beautiful of actresses. Still love her Scarlett O'Hara and Blanche du Bois. We will not experience her like again.
Vivien Leigh is hilarious when she breaks character and talks about how she hates the play and doesn't understand it. It's not an *easy* play but enjoyable.
When I was in high school, I was a bit-player in The Skin of Our Teeth. To be frank, I don't think the director even knew what the hell he was doing. Many of us thought his interpretation was wrong. Ah, well!
@@leonardodemelo3711 Correct. Utter slip-up. Monty was Henry, we have photographs! Dickie van Patten was the telegraph boy. How could one confuse the two?
@@operazine Yes: I think the drama schools still train their young actors to produce this weird confect, 'General American' (to sit alongside General Motors, General Electric and wot not).
At least *something* good came out of Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake". Terrible book that a true talent wasted 17 years on and Thornton Wilder plagiarized to write this play.
Robert Fernandez It's a very stylized play -- not realism by ANY means. Vivien Leigh was a goddess, but this was...not up her alley. Tallulah had to have been a friggin' hoot in this role, though.
Leigh is so straight forward and simple in her performance she makes it look like anyone could do what she is doing - which is the sign of a true master.
Vivien Leigh was RIDICULOUSLY talented.
Can we just talk abt how goddamn amazing it is to see these actors, especially VIV to know ALL her lines without cuts? Damn.
Apparently her "sisters" in GWTW were amazed at how quick she learnt her lines. She would just look at pages and pages before shooting a scene and learn all the lines on the spot.
@@paulbadoo9326 yes she had a talent of memorising lines by reading them once or twice
Thats what you do on stage 😅
I must have watched these two acts a dozen times by now. Vivien Leigh is totally bewitching. She is so talented and so charming. We'll not see her like again.
Vivien was so gorgeous and how she can remember all those lines perfectly is amazing!
She was a theater actress since she was 19 years old!!...an actor which know his lines....is the basis of the job!!!
The genius of the great Vivien Leigh is so brilliant that the missing part of the broadcast is almost irrelevant!
What a talented performer ..notwithstanding her passing some 54 years ago, on 7th July, 1967 to be exact, the world has yet to discover someone as gifted as Lady Vivien Leigh in her very very unique ways...
Vivien Leigh, one of the greatest and most beautiful of actresses. Still love her Scarlett O'Hara and Blanche du Bois. We will not experience her like again.
Thank you so so much for sharing. As always, Ms Leigh was great!!!👍👍👍
Vivien has a very plesant speaking voice. Love Love Vivien!
What a gem of a performance! Thanks for the upload.
For those of you saying she wasn't convincing, honest question, have you read the play? Because I thought she makes a brilliant Sabina.
Same. Vivien did a great job
And it's a good play . . . till that final nonsense in act three.
OH PLEASE CANT WE HAVE THE WHOLE PLAY?
So wonderful Vivien ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Viv was brilliant and just so charming to watch. Thank you so very much for posting this.
I read this play when I was in my teens. Never got over it.
What a jewel! Thank you so much for uploading it.
RIP David McCallum 09/2023 - (here as Henry Antrobus)...
She was genius
I loved the play.
Vivien Leigh is hilarious when she breaks character and talks about how she hates the play and doesn't understand it. It's not an *easy* play but enjoyable.
that’s literally part of the script, she didn’t break character
Thanks for this
This is remarkably good.
Vivien Leigh grande ❤
Originally telecast on March 17, 1959.
Vivien is brilliant - as is the whole cast. And is that young David McCallum playing the son?
The kid... before U.N.C.L.E.!
He was so cute then!
I can picture Tallulah turning to the audience and saying, "I don't understand a word of this play!"
A wonderful adaptation of a great play. As relevant as ever with the Coronavirus. Alas, it seems part 3 is missing.
It's a shame that the third act of this version is lost.
These actors are brilliant. Idk what everyone is talking about.. THIS is how you act a satire.
Year this aired was never listed. It was 1959.
When I was in high school, I was a bit-player in The Skin of Our Teeth. To be frank, I don't think the director even knew what the hell he was doing. Many of us thought his interpretation was wrong. Ah, well!
Are these two parts the entire play? Or have there been many cuts?
Does Act 3 exist? Sad there is no film recording of Tallulah.
What year is this performance? Sometime in the 60's?
Suzie Wonder It was around '58 or '59.
1959
1959
Ruth Dunning was incredible.
Monty Clift was the original telegraph boy.
He played Henry…see original cast list
@@leonardodemelo3711 Correct. Utter slip-up. Monty was Henry, we have photographs! Dickie van Patten was the telegraph boy. How could one confuse the two?
At 05:59 is that really the cameraman's butt? JEEZ! And is Vivien Leigh deliberately doing a Una Merkel impression?
I came for Ducky
What kind of accent is that?
"American"
@@operazine Yes: I think the drama schools still train their young actors to produce this weird confect, 'General American' (to sit alongside General Motors,
General Electric and wot not).
@@julianeaves1913 she does sound American but what's odd is her voice. She sounds old when she's supposed to be young, isn't she?
im only here for theatre class.
Came here from bf5 Easter egg
At least *something* good came out of Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake". Terrible book that a true talent wasted 17 years on and Thornton Wilder plagiarized to write this play.
Vivien Leigh as an American housemaid!!!
Not convincing!!! But charming!!!
Agreed: but she IS interesting, which is better - in a way...
WTF was that? Drugs must have had a role.
Robert Fernandez It's a very stylized play -- not realism by ANY means. Vivien Leigh was a goddess, but this was...not up her alley. Tallulah had to have been a friggin' hoot in this role, though.
@@IanThaddiam No, I think Vivien did a fine job. It was up her alley.