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Vivien Merchant (born Ada Brand Thomson; 22 July 1929 – 3 October 1982) was an English actress. She began her career in 1942 and became known for dramatic roles on stage and in films. In 1956, she married the playwright Harold Pinter and performed in many of his plays.
Merchant achieved considerable success from the 1950s to the 1970s, winning the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress in 1964. For her role in the film Alfie (1966), she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress and won the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer. In 1967, she starred in the Broadway production of Pinter's The Homecoming and received a Tony Award nomination. Her other films included Accident (1967), The Offence (1972), Frenzy (1972), The Homecoming (1973) and The Maids (1975). Suffering from depression and alcoholism as her marriage ended, she died in 1982, two years after her divorce.
Merchant took her stage name as a composite of the actress Vivien Leigh and her brother, who was a merchant seaman (cited by Michael Billington). She began acting professionally in 1942, with supporting juvenile roles in repertory, progressing to West End roles in such works as Noël Coward's Sigh No More and Ace of Clubs, becoming an established lead in repertory in the early 1950s. Merchant subsequently performed in many stage productions and several films, including Alfie (1966), Accident (1967), Frenzy (1972) and The Offence (also 1972). Her performance in Alfie gained her Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actress, and won her the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer and the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Harold Pinter, CH, CBE (/ˈpɪntər/; 10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a Nobel Prize-winning English playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party (1957), The Homecoming (1964), and Betrayal (1978), each of which he adapted for the screen. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include The Servant (1963), The Go-Between (1971), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), The Trial (1993), and Sleuth (2007). He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television, and film productions of his own and others' works.
Pinter was born and raised in Hackney, east London, and educated at Hackney Downs School. He was a sprinter and a keen cricket player, acting in school plays and writing poetry. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art but did not complete the course. He was fined for refusing National Service as a conscientious objector. Subsequently, he continued training at the Central School of Speech and Drama and worked in repertory theatre in Ireland and England. In 1956 he married actress Vivien Merchant and had a son, Daniel born in 1958. He left Merchant in 1975 and married author Lady Antonia Fraser in 1980.
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director and producer, often nicknamed "The Master of Suspense". He pioneered many elements of the suspense and psychological thriller genres. He had a successful career in British cinema with both silent films and early talkies and became renowned as England's best director. Hitchcock moved to Hollywood in 1939 and became a US citizen in 1955.
Over a career spanning half a century, Hitchcock fashioned for himself a recognisable directorial style. His stylistic trademarks include the use of camera movement that mimics a person's gaze, forcing viewers to engage in a form of voyeurism. In addition, he framed shots to maximise anxiety, fear, or empathy, and used innovative forms of film editing. His work often features fugitives on the run alongside "icy blonde" female characters. Many of Hitchcock's films have twist endings and thrilling plots featuring depictions of murder and other violence. Many of the mysteries, however, are used as decoys or "MacGuffins" that serve the films' themes and the psychological examinations of their characters. Hitchcock's films also borrow many themes from psychoanalysis and sometimes feature strong sexual overtones. He became a highly visible public figure through interviews, movie trailers, cameo appearances in his own films, and the ten years in which he hosted the television program Alfred Hitchcock Presents. In 1978, film critic John Russell Taylor described Hitchcock as "the most universally recognizable person in the world", and "a straightforward middle-class Englishman who just happened to be an artistic genius."
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A sophisticated suburban couple try to enliven their sterile marriage with erotic role-playing, but find their new games even more repressive than before. As someone said this production just crackles with sex and the static electricity from Vivien Merchant's nylons. Director: Joan Kemp-Welch Writer: Harold Pinter Cast: Alan Badel ... Richard Vivien Merchant... Sarah Michael Forrest... Milkman
Excerpt from Peter Hall's 1973 film of Pinters play. Starring Ian Holm, Paul Rogers and Vivien Merchant.
Alfie movie clips: http://j.mp/1Je6l0l BUY THE MOVIE: http://amzn.to/wNjEDV Don't miss the HOTTEST NEW TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/1u2y6pr CLIP DESCRIPTION: Alfie (Michael Caine) seduces his friends wife, Lily (Vivien Merchant). FILM DESCRIPTION: Michael Caine's first starring role was a foray into dramatic irony, scripted by Bill Naughton from his novel and play. Alfie (Caine) is a charming, rogueish Cockney who cannot get his fill of women. He uses them without shame or malice, jumping from one promiscuous female's bed to another without much thought or feeling. Of course, Alfie's not as carefree as he would have the audience -- to whom he often speaks directly -- think: he treats his pregnant, common-law wife, Gilda (Julia Foster), quite shabbily, and has an affair with a married woman (V...
A sophisticated suburban couple try to enliven their sterile marriage with erotic role-playing, but find their new games even more repressive than before. As someone said this production just crackles with sex and the static electricity from Vivien Merchant's nylons. Director: Joan Kemp-Welch Writer: Harold Pinter Cast: Alan Badel ... Richard Vivien Merchant... Sarah Michael Forrest... Milkman
A sophisticated suburban couple try to enliven their sterile marriage with erotic role-playing, but find their new games even more repressive than before. As someone said this production just crackles with sex and the static electricity from Vivien Merchant's nylons. Director: Joan Kemp-Welch Writer: Harold Pinter Cast: Alan Badel ... Richard Vivien Merchant... Sarah Michael Forrest... Milkman
A sophisticated suburban couple try to enliven their sterile marriage with erotic role-playing, but find their new games even more repressive than before. As someone said this production just crackles with sex and the static electricity from Vivien Merchant's nylons. Director: Joan Kemp-Welch Writer: Harold Pinter Cast: Alan Badel ... Richard Vivien Merchant... Sarah Michael Forrest... Milkman
A sophisticated suburban couple try to enliven their sterile marriage with erotic role-playing, but find their new games even more repressive than before. As someone said this production just crackles with sex and the static electricity from Vivien Merchant's nylons. Director: Joan Kemp-Welch Writer: Harold Pinter Cast: Alan Badel ... Richard Vivien Merchant... Sarah Michael Forrest... Milkman
A sophisticated suburban couple try to enliven their sterile marriage with erotic role-playing, but find their new games even more repressive than before. As someone said this production just crackles with sex and the static electricity from Vivien Merchant's nylons. Director: Joan Kemp-Welch Writer: Harold Pinter Cast: Alan Badel ... Richard Vivien Merchant... Sarah Michael Forrest... Milkman
renzy is a 1972 British full movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The second to last feature film of his extensive career, it is often considered by critics and scholars to be his last great film before his death. The screenplay by Anthony Shaffer was based on the novel Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square by Arthur La Bern. The film stars Jon Finch, Alec McCowen, and Barry Foster and features Billie Whitelaw, Anna Massey, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Bernard Cribbins and Vivien Merchant. The original music score was composed by Ron Goodwin which movie is one of the best of alfred hitchcock movies.
Under Milk Wood (1972) Full Movie. English Subtitles. This is a delightful if peculiar story of a day in the life of a small, Welsh fishing village called "Llareggub" (read it backwards). We meet a host of curious characters (and ghosts) through the 'eyes' of Blind Captain cat. This is a true "Classic" of modern British writing with a wonderful, mischievous use of language. Stars : Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Siân Phillips, David Jason, Glynis Johns, Victor Spinetti, Ruth Madoc, Angharad Rees, Ann Beach, Vivien Merchant and Peter O'Toole.
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Bollywood Movie Actress Neena Gupta Interview video by Devang Bhatt Neena Gupta (born 4 June 1959) is an Indian film and television actress and director-producer. She won the 1994 National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for Woh Chokri. She is a popular actress in Indian commercial cinema, but it is her work with art filmmakers of India, like Shyam Benegal that got her recognition as an actress of considerable repute. She did a guest appearance in the TV Series; Shrimaan Shrimati. She also hosted the Indian version of the television quiz show The Weakest Link, Kamzor Kadii Kaun. Neena Gupta was born in Delhi to R. N. Gupta and attended the Lawrence School, Sanawar.She completed her Masters degree in Sanskrit and went on to do her M.Phil in the related subject. Gupta has made appeara...