Your Favorite Vanessa Redgrave performance...

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 1:41pm

Because the woman can do no wrong....

My favorites are PLAYING FOR TIME and her incredibly ballsy performance in THE DEVILS.

She was also wonderfully kittenish on NIP/TUCK.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 1:42pm

I don't remember the name, but she played a concentration camp internee on some movie.....and she truly moved me.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 1:44pm

That was PLAYING FOR TIME.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 1:46pm

LONG DAY'S JOURNEY on Broadway.

[best12bars]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 1:49pm

Isadora.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 1:50pm

thanks borstal....Vanessa, Jane Alexander, and Christine Baranski....how could I forget?

apparently it was an Arthur Miller play.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 1:55pm

Playing for Time, Orpheus Desending, Julia, Second Serve, omg...too many.

I remember Melanie Mayron being great in that as well as Vanessa and Jane, who both won Emmys...I want to see that again!

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 1:57pm

I did shows with Melanie Mayron, when we were kids. My favorite Vanessa Redgrave performance is in JULIA.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 1:59pm

I forgot Melanie was in there, yes she was excellent!

I also loved Julia.........

[Garland Grrrl]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 2:00pm

hmmm...i loved her very awkward dancing in BLOW UP. i will immitate it if i've had a few. so many to choose from, i will say JULIA and HOWARD'S END. (props to SECOND SERVE as dr. renee was my opthamologist for years...)

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 2:02pm

Mayron's perf. gave me chills...she was the bratty one who gave up her virtue for favors from the Nazis...but was just a girl.

In Second Serve, the detail of her pain during the aftermath of the surgery was intense, in my memory.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 2:04pm

I've loved Melanie since Thirty-something was on

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 2:09pm

Melanie is an excellent actress. She was superb at comedy, and was offered her own sitcom, POTSIE, RALPH AND MAXINE, by ABC and Gary Marshall, a spin-off of HAPPY DAYS, but she turned them down. ABC would only accept her in the role of Maxine, so the HAPPY DAYS' episode was never filmed. We were all shocked. One of the funniest episodes of RHODA, features her as Brenda's co-worker.

[Glebb]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 3:52pm

Mary Queen of Scots, Orpheus Desending, Julia, Camelot, Isadora, Howard's End, Second Serve, Playing for Time, Peter The Great, Young Catherine.
Wish I'd seen Baby Jane and love her sis in Georgy Girl.

[best12bars]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 5:16pm

Huh-uh, Glebby, you have to pick just ONE.

That's her whole entire rezzie!

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 5:51pm

Baby Jane was not worth seeing. Well, it wasn't worth making, at least.

[pab]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 5:55pm

Orpheus Descending on stage

Julia on film

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 6:21pm

Film: Nina in The Seagull (1968 directed by Lumet) -- her mad scene at the end is one of the most raw, intense and devastating scenes ever captured on film. It was amazing even for her.

Stage: SO many, but her Cleopatra at the Public (I loved it even though the critics didn't), Orpheus Descending and her Mary Tyrone particularly standout in my mind.

[lildogs]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 9:34pm

my vote goes to The Devils as well...though I have never seen her live...alas!

[mrsparker]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 2:49pm

As Vita-Sackville West in "Vita & Virginia" onstage. Eileen Atkins played Virginia Woolf. Really amazing, the two of them together.

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 3:27pm

Not my favorite, but I love her performance in "Cradle Will Rock." She's just a delight.