It's fun to imagine what the performances of famous actresses were like in the part of Rosalind--Maggie Smith, for example, or Gwyneth Paltrow, who played such an engaging Shakespearian heroine prototype in Shakespeare in Love.But there are two that I particularly wish I'd seen. Juliet Stevenson and the legendary 1961 performance by Vanessa Redgrave. This is the only photo I could find from that production. She was in her early 20s. I remember her being so achingly beautiful in her mid to late 60s film roles (particularly her first, Morgan!, though most remember her first in Blow-Up.) Yet she was tall and thin, and with those strong features-- a lot to work with for an actor of such vitality and talent. That must have been quite a show!
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