Product Details

• Directors: Lee Grant
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Unapix / a-Pix Ent.
• VHS Release Date: September 7, 1999
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 1575238349
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #384,454 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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When Vanessa Redgrave was born, as her actress mother tells it, Sir Laurence Olivier announced prophetically from a British stage, "Tonight a great actress has been born." So begins this biography of the renowned actress from a dynasty that includes her father Michael Redgrave, her sister Lynn, and daughters Natasha and Joely Richardson. Redgrave's mother, brother, and a few old friends join the actress in telling her story of the stage and screen, political activism, and family, with narration from Meryl Streep. Conspicuously absent from the 43-minute program are her sister and children. Still her story is riveting, from a childhood spent apart from her parents during the World War II bombing of Great Britain to her precipitous rise in British theater and simultaneous marriage to director Tony Richardson, through his subsequent desertion of her (and his eventual death from AIDS) and her affairs with other actors. This portrait doesn't shy away from portraying the pro-Palestinian politics that damaged her career, and includes tape of her famous "Zionist hoodlums" Oscar acceptance speech. Plentiful photos and clips from stage and movie performances round out this candid profile of a straightforward lady. --Kimberly Heinrichs

From the back cover

Born into an acting dynasty, Vanessa Regrave has become one of the most critically acclaimed actresses of our time. By the early 1960s she established herself as a key member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. With her acting career in full swing, Vanessa met director Tony Richardson. They married in 1962 and had two children, Natasha and Joely, both of whom went on to become actresses themselves. Though they eventually divorced, their friendship and professional association continued until his death of AIDS in 1991. In addition to her acting career, Vanessa has been politically conscious most of her life. Redgrave has never failed to speak her mind, even over controversial issues. This Intimate Portrait offers a unique view at the tremendous success and personal determination that has marked Redgrave's life and career.

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1.0 out of 5 stars a pity, April 12, 2009

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This review is from: Intimate Portrait: Vanessa Redgrave [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Lamentably, I can't say anything about this VHS as I bought many time ago but perhaps the douanes, airways, airports, X- rays or something else made the VHS arrived fully deleted. For me this is a simpathetic superb actress, still beautiful, perhaps some extremist witouth knowing reality about the islamic groups, but I think unable to make damage. Recently she has lost a daughter. The best for her.