Marlon Brando was never as magnetic and it's hard to believe that there is just a decade or so between Vivien Leigh's Scarlett and her Blanche. They are 2 women from the opposite ends of the universe and yet are they?
The film itself is a masterpiece, certainly by far the greatest film of a Tennessee Williams's play. Leigh is the dangeous Southern belle digging her claws into her sister's hubby - smouldering, animalistic Marlon Brando,
One of my favourite actresses, Renee Asherson, who died in 2014, played Leigh's sister in the London stage play in 1949. Bonar Colleano, who popped up in the British war film, Way to the Stars a few years ealier, played Stanley.
I would guess that at the time the film was made, alot of audience goers would have been frightened by Brando's animalistic quality. Yet with this one perfomance, Brando changed acting forever as surely as Elvis changed music a few years later.
Brando received $80,000 salary for his role, double his salary for his previous film, The Men.
Brando said of his co-star, Vivien Leigh: 'She was memorably beautiful, one of the great beauties of the screen'.
Jessica Tandy had played the Leigh role on the stage. The director Kazan wrote: 'Brando was genuinely attracted to Leigh and he used it. He hadn't been attracted to Jessie Tandy'. Can't think why - she was absolutely gorgeous as well.
The Dvd packaging is good. The typography really mirrors the iconography of the film. Dramatic and eye-catching like the credits of the film.
5 STARS OUT OF FIVE
Price: £7.00 (1 left in stock)
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