Starring Alec McCowen, Penelope Keith, Polly Adams, Donald Pickering
Пікірлер: 62
@williamzavlaris4054Ай бұрын
Noel at his finest in a perfect production. Thank you so much for uploading. This made my day.
@sheargillsparkie95883 жыл бұрын
Absolutely amazing and highly entertaining. Noel Coward was a genius. Ghosh what wit, so beautifully portrayed by this fabulous cast. Some of Britain’s finest.
@SymphonyBrahms5 жыл бұрын
Dame Penelope Keith is a great actress.
@hellodave200614 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for uploading this!!! You are indeed a kind soul.
@TrelleStar14 жыл бұрын
So glad I found this online. Decided today that I'm auditioning for a stage version of "Private Lives" and I absolutely adore Maggie Smith. Thanks for posting.
@smokingsections14 жыл бұрын
My favorite vesion would definitely be the radio one with Laurence Olivier (as Elyot) and Vivien Leigh (as Amanda) , who were actually married in real life. Their chemistry was incredible! I could listen to those two all day. For anyone who's interested, the play is here on YT :)
@suzannemoogan96756 жыл бұрын
An excellent performance by all players, especially Penelope and Alec, Noël must have been very proud. I can't believe ,I was only one when this was filmed.
@leslielandberg56204 жыл бұрын
Suzanne Moogan He died three years previous. I don’t think he would have cared at all for this interpretation. The banter ought to be light hearted and half in jest/half serious. They play it full emotional force. WRONG! It becomes leaden and uninteresting played through that lens. This is not melodrama. All the tension and charming frisson has been drained out of the first scene. Can’t wait to view the rest. I am sure it will improve!
@animalsarebeautifulpeople3094 Жыл бұрын
What a delight!! Thank you so much for posting! ❤❤🩹💯💜💙💚🥳🥳🥳
@nataliademiantseva14076 жыл бұрын
Most delisiuos treat. Thank you for sharing. Enjoying every episode enormously. Most grateful.
@juliepope1112 жыл бұрын
I have to say Norma Shearer is my favorite. Love the comments. I just have a slight obsession with 1930's film and actors... born in the wrong time I guess, how lucky i am to have this resource ... thanks..
@ginnylorenz52657 жыл бұрын
Oh yes! Both versions are wonderful, but the Norma Shearer Robert Montgomery version is my favorite. But then, to me, movies from the thirty's and forties are the best in every way.
@mckavitt5 жыл бұрын
julie pope I watched the Shearer/Montgomery version based on your comment. Enjoyed it v. much.
@drbassface15 жыл бұрын
Now showing at the Utah Shakesperian Festival. July - August 2009 Cedar City, Utah Bravo It was so good I saw it Three Times! Solomon Isaccs!!!
@bgudmundsson15 жыл бұрын
its available on dvd, you can get it on netflix through the Noel Coward Collection
@joansavage18575 жыл бұрын
Thank you, I am so enjoying this.
@ahturkyemekleri8747 жыл бұрын
It was much fun to watch this. Thank you for uploading this.
@isabella62064 жыл бұрын
Love this so witty!
@philbourque52167 жыл бұрын
Happy and amazed to find this. Thank you. To hell with love.
@Dehzee13 жыл бұрын
You rawk so hard for posting this, huge thanx!
@bigbear00fuzzums543 жыл бұрын
Fantastic!
@simonjones7727 Жыл бұрын
The "lights on the yacht" look like something on the pond at your local park.
@drunkjimmystewart13 жыл бұрын
"three times please, I'm superstitious"... oh yes:)
@archibaldtuttle84814 жыл бұрын
An excellent production. Illustrates how little choice we have in with whom we fall in love. Not my FAVORITE play - but particularly well produced, here. Not my FAVORITE playwright - but particularly well Directed, here. All the better with my own history in the rear-view-mirror.
@raymondlawson89143 жыл бұрын
Fabulous
@fluffyfour5 жыл бұрын
No way is McCowen 7 years younger than his new wife. Unless he's been doing some serious hard living and she's drunk from the fountain of youth!
@MrSwifts317 жыл бұрын
Nobody's private life is interesting,except one's own!
@k8nairne15 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing. Is this available on VHS or DVD?
@ladycblack114 жыл бұрын
what is the music at the start does anyone know? thanks for uploading :D
@victorbrunswick13 жыл бұрын
Who is the recording of "A Room With A View" by?
@ohrackchart13 жыл бұрын
@LoonyGingerLyrics im reading the plays along, for my exam tmr :D
@carolynargabright81323 жыл бұрын
What's the name of the theme song?
@momcatwoo Жыл бұрын
I hate to say it, because I think that Toby Stephens and Anna Chancellor are both brilliant, but I prefer this version.
@westgate3511 жыл бұрын
does anyone know the credits music ?
@mckavitt5 жыл бұрын
westgate35 If it is the usual songs, the credit also goes to Noël Coward. We all hum one Coward tune or another in our heads or out loud at least once in our lives. Consciously or, more importantly, unconsciously. Like Mozart tunes, Coward’s, once heard, are never forgotten.
@leslielandberg56204 жыл бұрын
First scene is curiously on the nose. I rather think that Coward intended a very different tone than that which was struck. It should sound like half serious-half-in -jest banter. Instead they give it full emotional weight. WRONG!
@frazhierlagora9834 жыл бұрын
May i ask who is the antagonist of the story?
@lauriej.57062 жыл бұрын
The antagonist is our own emotions and emotional needs as we endure the complicated mysterious all too human pursuit of love. In a dramatic work the antagonist, like the hero, can be thematic material instead of a specific character. In this case, the situation and the emotions are the antagonist.
@prabuddhgupta11784 жыл бұрын
glad so much so that i can offer anything except ............
@titania1452 жыл бұрын
How awful way to talk to each other in a honeymoon 👎💔😡
@StevenTorrey8 жыл бұрын
The titles were interesting. The greatest question--does anyone really want to see anyone else's private life? Ends up being a tedious display of private life.
@3506Dodge8 жыл бұрын
+Steven Torrey "tedious"?
@mckavitt5 жыл бұрын
Steven Torrey Not this one.
@CAM86965 Жыл бұрын
☕
@summermen6 жыл бұрын
Both McCowen and Keith are miscast in this...these roles require glamour, which is why ladies like Lawrence, Leigh, Bankhead, Tammy Grimes, Maggie Smith have all been successful in it. In the 2002 Broadway revival, Lindsay Duncan and the late great Alan Rickman played it with a gravity that emphasized the pain of being in a bad marriage -- and still got uproarious laughs.The play is indestructible--they'll be doing it in 500 years.
@mckavitt5 жыл бұрын
HAK Your faith in Coward’s play & self expression are admirable, to my mind.
@fkd19635 жыл бұрын
Keith can do no wrong. The roles have less to do with glamor and more to do with self absorption
@fluffyfour5 жыл бұрын
I disagree this requires glamour. It requires acting skills representing the emotions, egos and power struggles between the characters. McCowen may not be my first choice for the role, but he's undeniably up to the job.
@Victor19304 жыл бұрын
I'm with you, though "elegance" is the word I use, maybe, more than glamour. I love Penelope Keith, but I never thought she was right for Amanda. A little too.... hausfrau is too strong, but too something. Amanda needs to be sleek, willowy, stylish, an art-deco drawing come to life. Penelope just isn't those things.
@steerpike663 жыл бұрын
I always thought Keith was very glamorous, in a toothy, very British way. McCowan is a little sexless, smart but not grand enough; a little fey.
@dwebster42925 жыл бұрын
E
@unclealand12 жыл бұрын
Shearer didn't have the class or wit that Penelope Keith brings to Amanda.
@AHouseDivided19985 жыл бұрын
unclealand Perhaps, but Keith lacks Shearer’s sex appeal. And I’m a big fan of them both.
@timbrandt21324 жыл бұрын
I agree. There's this mahogany sound to her voice that makes her Amanda the most intriguing I've ever seen.
@rickack81762 жыл бұрын
2X Ken & Barbie. Less ‘perfect’ actors are worth a try …
@scotsexile15 жыл бұрын
Too bad to be true. Did people really like this kind of play and think it was funny?
@Victor19304 жыл бұрын
They did, and still do. This play is regularly revived and enjoyed on both sides of the Atlantic. I was fortunate enough to see Maggie Smith in it in the 1970s and it was one of the funniest evenings of theater I have ever experienced. I got to perform it, myself, in a small theater in Los Angeles in the early 1990s and we had people coming back to see it again and again... groupies, if you will! A classic of the English speaking theater.