Happy Birthday

[L Verge]

For those of us who love moonlight and magnolias and Gone With The Wind (even though we know their flaws), let's wish this star of the latter film a happy 102 birthday.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/celebri...spartanntp

Top this, Angelina!

[BettyO]

Agreed, Laurie!

Happy Birthday to Dame Olivia (AKA, Melanie Wilkes!)

Love her in "The Heiress" with Montgomery Clift, taken from Henry James' novel, Washington Square.

Set in the late 1840s-early 1850s, Olivia plays the daughter of a prominent NY doctor.
She is a priggish spinster, who is courted by a gold-digging young man. The sets and costumes (except for those outfits worn by Miriam Hopkins) are excellent! Definitely a "must see!"

   

[LincolnMan]

Amazing lady!

[L Verge]

(07-04-2018 04:39 PM)LincolnMan Wrote:  Amazing lady!

Yes, she is - and she had her act together both on and off the stage, I believe (unlike Vivien Leigh).

As a sidebar, a fellow actor of the time was Montgomery Clift, but few of us will remember him unless we watch old movies. I recently ran across this supposed tie to Mr. Lincoln:

The future actor's mother, who was reportedly adopted at the age of one year, nicknamed "Sunny", spent part of her life and her husband's money seeking to establish the Southern lineage that reportedly had been revealed to her at age 18 by the physician who delivered her, Dr. Edward Montgomery, after whom she named her younger son. According to Clift biographer Patricia Bosworth, Ethel was the illegitimate daughter of Woodbury Blair and Maria Anderson, whose marriage had been annulled before her birth and subsequent adoption. This would make her a granddaughter of Montgomery Blair, Postmaster General under President Abraham Lincoln, and a great-granddaughter of Francis Preston Blair, a journalist and adviser to President Andrew Jackson, and Levi Woodbury, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. None of these relationships, however, has been proven and remain speculative in the absence of documentation.

As part of Sunny Clift's lifelong preparation for acceptance by her reported biological family (a goal never fully achieved), she raised Clift and his siblings as if they were aristocrats. Home-schooled by their mother as well as by private tutors in the United States and Europe, in spite of their father's fluctuating finances, they did not attend a regular school until they were in their teens. The adjustment was difficult, particularly for Montgomery. His performance as a student lagged behind that of his sister and brother.

Clift was educated in French, German, and Italian.

[LincolnMan]

How interesting. Thanks for posting!

[BettyO]

Fascinating, Laurie! Who knew?!?