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The Sea Gull
film by Lumet [1968]
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- In Sidney Lumet: The 1960s: Fail Safe, The Pawnbroker, and The Hill
…Lumet earned mixed reviews for The Sea Gull (1968), an adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s play, with Mason, Vanessa Redgrave, and Simone Signoret. Lumet closed out the decade with the glossy but forgettable melodrama The Appointment (1969), which starred Omar Sharif as an attorney who begins to suspect that his wife…
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role of Redgrave
- In Vanessa Redgrave: Oscar contender: roles from the 1960s and ’70s
Lumet’s adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull (1968). In 1971 Redgrave took on the role of Andromache in The Trojan Women and received another Oscar nomination for her work as the title character in Mary, Queen of Scots, playing opposite Glenda Jackson’s Queen Elizabeth I. Redgrave also appeared in such…
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