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MORGAN! Black comedy in the new British mode, with Vanessa Redgrave as a madcap London socialite, David Warner as her former husband who changes reality around to suit himself...
MORGAN! Polished performances by Vanessa Redgrave and David Warner lend luster to an oddball comedy about an eccentric London painter who woos his former wife gorilla-style...
MORGAN! David Warner and Vanessa Red grave brighten a black British comedy in which a fey young artist is destroyed by his emotional dependence on Karl Marx, King Kong and his former wife...
Wearing the crown seems perfectly appropriate for Vanessa; she is a member of the royal family of the English theater. Her father is Sir Michael Redgrave; Lady Redgrave is Actress Rachel Kempson. Her sister and brother are players, as was her grandfather and his father before him. On the night she was born, her career was chosen by Laurence Olivier, who was playing Hamlet to her father's Laertes. Prophesied Olivier in a curtain speech: "Ladies and gentlemen, tonight a lovely new actress has been born. Laertes has a daughter...
...would be. Her father advised her to go all out for musical comedy: "You can always go into serious theater later . . . after all, Edith Evans didn't start till she was 30." He may have been thinking that her gangling height might hinder her as a serious actress; Vanessa is 5 ft. 101 in., taller than many leading men. It was something she worried about too. Once, recalls Lady Redgrave, Vanessa telephoned her in the country: "She was sobbing great floods. Finally she explained. 'I'm looking in your mirror...