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Bryan Forbes at 100: remembering the Whistle down the Wind and The Stepford Wives director on his centenary (opens the original)
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At the end of 2011, I drove out to Virginia Water with a colleague, to collect a film donation to the BFI National Archive. Meeting actor-writer-director Bryan Forbes at his Surrey home is a treasured memory; he was a welcoming and generous host and was happy to share memories from his long and prestigious career. The films we retrieved were his 16mm home movies, and cataloguing them gave me a wonderful insight into his life and career, from on-set footage of his films to lively social gathering
Three weeks, two lovers, one shelved film: Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier’s forgotten blackmail drama 21 Days (opens the original)
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With his protégée Merle Oberon making a name in Hollywood, Hungarian producer Alexander Korda was eager to launch a new star into British cinema, and set his sights on Vivien Leigh. In 1937, she appeared opposite Laurence Olivier in the historical drama Fire over England and ably took on Conrad Veidt’s Nazi agent in the effective spy thriller Dark Journey. That March, she also signed a contract to act in another feature with Olivier, by which time the pair had embarked on an affair, both leaving
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