#Litvak

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Ingrid Bergman dans "Anastasia" d'Anatole Litvak (1956) - adapté de la pièce de théâtre éponyme de Marcelle Maurette (1955), librement inspirée de la vie d'Anna Anderson née Franziska Schanzkowska (1894-1984) qui se faisait passée pour la Grande-Duchesse Anastasia Nikolaïevna Romanova de Russie (1901-1918) - décembre 2024.

[misguidedandperplexed]

What they say: you're a disappointment to your ancestors

What they mean: stop eating fish and dairy together, you misnaged

[victusinveritas]

A friend and comrade posted this on Facebook. Sharing a link to the film here for your viewing entertainment.

This movie also stars Vincent Price.

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Sophia Loren at Lido nightclub, Paris, c.1962

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Anatole Litvak celebrating his GOODBYE AGAIN (Aimez-Vous Brahms) at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival with his stars, Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Perkins, and Yves Montand.

[endless-formsmostbeautiful]

Five Miles to Midnight dir. Anatole Litvak (1962)

[manderley]

ᴏʟɪᴠɪᴀ ᴅᴇ ʜᴀᴠɪʟʟᴀɴᴅ ɪɴ 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗻𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗣𝗶𝘁 (𝟭𝟵𝟰𝟴)

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Sophie Malgat Litvak by Nat Farbman 1952

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Mayerling (Anatole Litvak, 1939)

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The Night of the Generals, Italian lobby card, 1967

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The Deep Blue Sea (1955) Anatole Litvak

February 8th 2025

[detournementsmineurs]

Ingrid Bergman et Yul Brynner dans “Anastasia” d'Anatole Litvak (1956) - adapté de la pièce de théâtre éponyme de Marcelle Maurette (1955), librement inspirée de la vie d'Anna Anderson née Franziska Schanzkowska (1894-1984) qui se faisait passer pour la Grande-Duchesse Anastasia Nikolaïevna Romanova de Russie (1901-1918) - décembre 2024.

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Silver Screen magazine, April 1940

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Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) directed by Anatole Litvak

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Born on this day: brilliant, fragile and intense English stage and film actress Vivien Leigh (5 November 1913 - 8 July 1967). Coincidentally, that weird British TV station Talking Pictures here screened Leigh’s rarely glimpsed, forgotten and unloved 1955 melodrama The Deep Blue Sea (tagline: “What happens to a married woman when she’s trapped between the devil … and the Deep Blue Sea”) on Sunday. (You always know when you’re watching Talking Pictures: the ads are all for walk-in bathtubs, mobility scooters, funeral and will-making services and Dormeo mattresses). For her first film following her Oscar-winning triumph in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), Leigh chose this adaptation of Terence Rattigan’s hit stage play. (In between, she was forced to drop out of Elephant Walk (1953) due to mental health struggles and was replaced by Elizabeth Taylor. After this one, Leigh wouldn’t make another film for six years). The Deep Blue Sea is a movie about stoical, genteel suffering and suicide notes over cigarettes and glasses of scotch, with everyone speaking in posh old-school received pronunciation. Costumed by Pierre Balmain, her face a white-powdered mask of pain, Leigh portrays Hester, an upper-crust middle-aged society woman who abandons the security of her fifteen-year marriage to a judge to embark on an ill-fated love affair with a feckless younger man. Anatole Litvak’s direction is stodgy and indifferent (weirdly, he gives Leigh virtually no close-ups). But it can’t help but exert fascination as an addition to Leigh’s gallery of troubled, self-destructive women who either go mad or die by the end of the film: think Myra in Waterloo Bridge (1940), Anna Karenina (1948), Blanche DuBois in Streetcar and Karen Stone in The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone (1961). Deep Blue Sea was clearly filmed within the confines of a studio, but the view from Hester’s window is Battersea. (London is delineated by shots of black cabs, red phone boxes and red buses. British character actress Dandy Nichols from the sitcom Till Death Do Us Part plays Hester’s cockney landlady). (The Deep Blue Sea was very interestingly remade in 2011 by Terence Davies with Rachel Weisz in Leigh’s role).

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Ann Dvorak and Henry Fonda in Anatole Litvak’s THE LONG NIGHT (1947)