Glenda Jackson (1936-2023) great actor and political representative.

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  • Bryn
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    • Mar 2007
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    Glenda Jackson (1936-2023) great actor and political representative.

    So sorry to hear of the death of Glenda Jackson. What a wonderful human being. A long life, for sure, but her death still untimely.
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  • johncorrigan
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    • Nov 2010
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    Originally posted by Bryn View Post
    So sorry to hear of the death of Glenda Jackson. What a wonderful human being. A long life, for sure, but her death still untimely.
    Very sad indeed, Bryn. The recent performance where she played Maud, an elderly woman living with dementia, showed that she had lost none of her ability to move the viewer. Some of it was filmed in my old home town, so it was great seeing her in places fairly familiar to me. A great, great actor.

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    • DracoM
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      • Mar 2007
      • 12986
      #3
      Talented - genuine star. RIP.

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      • Serial_Apologist
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        • Dec 2010
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        A very very sad day.

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        • Nick Armstrong
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          • Nov 2010
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          #5
          Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
          A very very sad day.

          Yes What a woman. Striking clip here:

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          https://twitter.com/bbcarchive/status/1669316347178676224?s=46&t=ajw-nytC7lp00O9QkktiLw


          Timeless intelligence and style, effortlessly making the blokes in the audience seem like dated caricatures... RIP
          "...the isle is full of noises,
          Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
          Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
          Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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          • cloughie
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            • Dec 2011
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            #6
            Superb actress and a very good MP!

            RIP Glenda

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            • gurnemanz
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              • Nov 2010
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              A remarkable career. I saw her twice on the stage, as far as I remember - fifty years apart. Peter Brook's US at RSC in 1966 and King Lear at Old Vic a few years ago. In between many memorable film and TV performances.

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              • Mal
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                • Dec 2016
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                Quite remarkable! "The Music Lovers" is one of the main reasons I started listening to Radio 3 as a mainly Radio 1 listening schoolboy. Her, Richard, Melvyn and Ken made me think, "there might be something in this classical stuff..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Music_Lovers. She woke me up in more ways than one! (I quite admired her political campaigning as well...)

                The Music Lovers | Trailers From Hell
                https://trailersfromhell.com/the-music-lovers/
                The onscreen title reads Ken Russell's Film on Tchaikovsky and The Music Lovers, to differentiate it from a Russian film released the previous year. One of Russell's most gloriously lurid fantasias, with Richard Chamberlain and Glenda Jackson brilliant as the haunted composer and his mad nymphomaniacal wife. Despite its many memorable and even shocking sequences this musical fever dream was savaged by the critics, with Pauline herself opining, "You really feel you should drive a stake through the heart of the man who made it. I mean it is so vile. It is so horrible."

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                • LHC
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                  • Jan 2011
                  • 1561
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                  She had apparently only just finished filming a new film with Sir Michael Caine, so she was able to continue working almost to the end.

                  One of the greatest actors this Country has ever produced.
                  "I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square."
                  Lady Bracknell The importance of Being Earnest

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                  • Serial_Apologist
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                    • Dec 2010
                    • 37812
                    #10
                    On Radio 3 tonight, a repeat of a Free Thinking programme from 1987 looking at the great 1971 Schlesinger film Sunday Bloody Sunday:

                    BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Glenda Jackson on filming Sunday Bloody Sunday
                    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000xfcx
                    Matthew Sweet and guests including Glenda Jackson on John Schlesinger's love triangle film

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