tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6816366806127608207.post7107854986316367417..comments2024-03-21T22:19:26.920-05:00Comments on A Follow Spot: Now Through Sunday -- It's a Mini MACBETH Fest at the Normal TheatreJulieKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12521424567356348282noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6816366806127608207.post-29074084369843652402016-01-28T10:06:14.493-06:002016-01-28T10:06:14.493-06:00I had forgotten about the McKellen/Dench one -- th...I had forgotten about the McKellen/Dench one -- they each bring something interesting to the roles, don't they? I didn't see the Judith Anderson/Maurice Evans on TV, but I did see the Orson Welles one (Late Late Show? Not sure) and that may account for my fondness for it. I do think it stands up, though. When I think Olivier and Leigh, I don't think Macbeth, but I certainly would've liked to see their Antony & Cleo. I'm sure you know that she did Caesar and Cleopatra (the Shaw) with Claude Rains on film, but Olivier on stage, about the same time as they did Antony & Cleopatra. I'm afraid that her Cleopatra would devolve along the same lines as her Scarlett O'Hara -- beautiful, willful, spoiled, uses men as playthings -- because there is the look of that in the pictures. But it would be interesting to see how she and Olivier did with that together. JulieKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12521424567356348282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6816366806127608207.post-34133096457280153512016-01-28T09:32:39.840-06:002016-01-28T09:32:39.840-06:00What a cool idea, Julie! Not a movie, but there...What a cool idea, Julie! Not a movie, but there's the preservation of the stage production with Ian McKellen and Judi Dench, which you once gave me on DVD.<br /><br />I remember a production (maybe more than one, in fact) of Macbeth with Judith Anderson and Maurice Evans courtesy of Hallmark Hall of Fame. I was so familiar with that as a kid, I thought they were the only ones allowed to do it, and knew them in no other roles. I wonder if one of those TV Archive labels will make it available eventually.<br /><br />And then there's the Macbeth movie I wish existed: Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. They had a very successful production of it in the 1950s, and people desperately tried to make a film, but all plans fell through. I wish we could have had that one in place of his ill-conceived Othello movie.JAChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10942256334004773509noreply@blogger.com