Rest in Peace, Georgy Girl

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She died on Sunday after a seven-year bout with breast cancer.
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@jespah,

I love that song!
Lynn was too young to go - only 67 years old.
The Redgrave family has endured enormous losses the past couple of years.

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So sorry to hear that. I loved that song as well. Listening to it right now by The Seekers.

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A picture of Lynn and her sister Vanessa appeared alongside the yahoo announcement of Lynn's death. Those two women presented a model of growing old gracefully as a few of their age peers, like Joan Baez, do as well.

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Georgy Girl

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@talk72000,

Thank you for posting that. I hope they never remake that film. I cannot imagine anyone better than her, and I think the time period has passed.

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@jespah,

Actually I saw the movie only recently when I bought the DVD. I missed a lot of movies after graduating from University. Thank God for the DVDs for I would only know the names of movies without having seen them.

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@jespah,

Close to thirty years ago, the Hamburgers took me to see Ms. Redgrave on Broadway, in a performance of Mrs. Warren's Profession, co-starring Ruth Gordon. One of my most exciting theatre memories.

She will be sorely missed by the theatre world. A wonderful actor.

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@ehBeth,

I loved Ruth Gordon in Rosemary's Baby and Harold and Maude. That must have been a hoot to see Redgrave and Ruth Gordon on B'way.

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@Ragman,

It was an exciting opportunity. I was able to see Ruth Gordon on stage a couple of other times, but it was the only time I saw Lynn Redgrave on the stage. It was truly wonderful.

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@ehBeth,

http://www.mccarter.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/lynn-redgrave-ruth-gordon-and-milo-oshea-photo-by-sy-friedman.jpg

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@jespah,

http://www.redgrave.com/galleries/index.htm

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@talk72000,

Thanks for that video, loved it. Reminds me of when I had my hair done in Guadalajara in that same time period. I went right to our hotel room and washed it out, no easy task with all that hair spray..

Now I want to see the movie again.

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@ossobuco,

I have posted a lot of musicals, popular songs and movie songs here http://able2know.org/topic/138679-1

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@ossobuco,

I liked the video too, made me interested in the movie, looked up the synopsis. Good grief!!! Good actors can surpass bad plots but that plot sure makes me grimace. (Multiple abortions = bad person, "happy ending" involves a loveless marriage with a creepy guy who occupied a father figure role until heroine reached maturity, etc., etc.)

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@sozobe,

James Mason is in it as well as Alan Bates and a beautiful Charlotte Rampling in her twenties. It's more a woman's movie than a young guy's movie but it certainly deals with adult relationships. Young guys would be in action movies like spies, wars, piracy, gun fights and so on. It is a good movie though. I sorta liked it but earlier I would not bother when I was very young.

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@sozobe,

Thanks for the summary. I did see the movie and I remember not loving it but not much else.

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@ossobuco,

Charlotte really played a heart breaker and rather calculating. The first time I saw Charlotte Rampling was a middle-aged lady in a movie. She didn't age well.

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@talk72000,

I remember the film had an abortion in it, and that it was a big deal that Lynn was so heavy (these days, not so much).

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@jespah,

Lynn lost the weight later on a few years later and she looked attractive - from the Redgrave genes. In those days it was difficult to be fat as food was not cooked or produced the way it is now with hormones and anti-biotics fed to animals. There were not that many fast food outlets and most people ate home-cooked food and restaurants served smaller portions.

Oh yes, there was the abortion. Certainly not a common issue as the birthcontrol pills were just starting.

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