| re: Are there any good Oscar Wilde film adaptations? | |
| Posted by: portenopete 09:54 am EDT 07/05/20 | |
| In reply to: Are there any good Oscar Wilde film adaptations? - DistantDrumming 10:58 pm EDT 07/04/20 | |
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| Thank you for alerting us to that clip- even though Black Jeopardy! wasn't what you were intending!- and allowing us to share in Dame Angela's moment of glory. What a gift we have gotten, those of us lucky enough to see her onstage these past 15 years. Having grown up resigned to never seeing her live, I got to see four of her stage appearances live (Deuce, A Little Night Music, The Best Man and Blithe Spirit) and one live-to-cinemas (Driving Miss Daisy). The ovation that greeted her and Marian Seldes when the curtain went up on Deuce was unforgettable. It just went on and on. the sheer joy in the theatre that she was back. It's like what the title song in Dolly! is going for but rarely achieves. Now to the Oscar Wilde film adaptations: yes, as someone noted below, the Michael Balcon IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST is a classic, with what I have always thought of as the definitive Lady Bracknell in Dame Edith Evans surrounded by legends like Michael Redgrave, Joan Greenwood, Dorothy Tutin, Margaret Rutherford, Miles Malleson and lovely Michael Denison (whom I got to see towards the end of his career in Peter Hall's revival of An Ideal Husband alongside his wife Dulcie Gray: I saw it in London but it transferred to Broadway: did they come with it?) And I've never seen it, but Alfred Hitchcock's silent film of Lady Windermere's Fan has always sounded intriguing. |
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