"Glenda Jackson Glenda May Jackson (born 9 May 1936) is a British actress and former Labour Party politician. She is among the few performers to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting. As a professional actress from the late 1950s, she spent four years as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1964, being particularly associated with the work of director Peter Brook. During her film career, she won two Academy Awards for Best Actress: for ""Women in Love"" (1970) and ""A Touch of Class"" (1973). Other award-winning performances include Alex in the film ""Sunday Bloody Sunday"" (1971) and the"
"which Glenda Jackson won the Academy Award for Best Actress. It was one of the first theatrical films to show male genitals, in scenes when Gerald Crich (Oliver Reed) and Rupert Birkin (Alan Bates) wrestle in the nude in front of a roaring fireplace, in several early skinny dipping shots, and in an explicit sequence of Birkin running naked in the forest after being hit on the head by his spurned former mistress, Hermione Roddice (Eleanor Bron). William Ivory combined ""Women in Love"" with Lawrence's earlier novel, ""The Rainbow"" (1915), in his two-part BBC Four television adaptation titled, ""Women in"
"New York local station WOR-TV Channel 9. Glenda Jackson's performance in the title role won her two Emmy Awards - for Best Actress in a Drama Series and Best Actress in a Movie/TV Special (for the episode ""Shadow in the Sun""). The series itself won the Emmy for the Best Dramatic Series in 1972 (the first British TV series ever to win the American TV award, before ""Upstairs, Downstairs"" carried the award two years later). At around the same time, Jackson also played the part of Elizabeth in the film ""Mary, Queen of Scots"" (1971). Costume designer Elizabeth Waller recreated"
"reviews. Jackson's starring role in Ken Russell's film adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's ""Women in Love"" (1969) led to her winning her first Academy Award for Best Actress. Brian McFarlane, the main author of ""The Encyclopedia of British Film"", has written: ""Her blazing intelligence, sexual challenge and abrasiveness were at the service of a superbly written role in a film with a passion rare in the annals of British cinema."" In the process of gaining funding for ""The Music Lovers"" (1970) from United Artists, Russell explained it as ""the story of a homosexual who marries a nymphomaniac,"" the couple being the"
"BBC TV miniseries ""Lady Chatterley"". ""Women in Love"" received positive reviews from critics and currently holds an 88% rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 16 reviews with an average rating of 7.5/10. Film critic Emanuel Levy has said of the film: ""Though deviating from D. H. Lawrence's novel considerably, this is Ken Russell's most fully realised narrative film, lavishly mounted and well-acted, especially by Glenda Jackson in an Oscar-winning performance."" ""Women in Love"" was released on VHS by MGM Home Entertainment in 1994, and on DVD in Regions 1 and 2 in 2003. The film was released"
"as the production is set for a Broadway opening in April 2019. Jackson has a son, Dan Hodges, born in 1969 from her marriage to Roy Hodges; he has worked as a Labour Party advisor and commentator, and a well-known political blogger who describes himself as a ""Blairite cuckoo."" She was five months pregnant when filming on ""Women in Love"" was completed. Her marriage to Hodges lasted from 1958 until their divorce in 1976. In 1978, she was awarded a CBE. Glenda Jackson Glenda May Jackson (born 9 May 1936) is a British actress and former Labour Party politician. She"
"Women in Love (film) Women in Love is a 1969 British romantic drama film directed by Ken Russell and starring Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson, and Jennie Linden. The film was adapted by Larry Kramer from D. H. Lawrence's novel of the same name. It is the first film to be released by Brandywine Productions. The plot follows the relationships between two sisters and two men in a mining town in post-World War I England. The two couples take markedly different directions. The film explores the nature of commitment and love. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards,"
"female nudity, sex, violence and homosexuality. Ken Russell's ""Women in Love"" (1969) was especially controversial for showing frontal male nudity in a wrestling scene between Oliver Reed and Alan Bates. Glenda Jackson won the Academy Award for Best Actress in that film, the first performer to win for a role that included nude scenes. There was also a long line of sex comedies, beginning with ""Mary Had a Little..."" (1961), which were more intended to display nudity than sexuality. Other British sex comedies included ""What's Good for the Goose"" (1969). There apparently are two versions of the film, one being"
"was named Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival in 1974 for her performance in ""The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds"". Woodward won two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie, for ""See How She Runs"" (1978) as a divorced teacher who trains for a marathon; and in ""Do You Remember Love?"" (1985) as a professor who begins to suffer from Alzheimer's disease. She has been nominated an additional five times for her roles on television. A popular (but untrue) bit of Hollywood lore is that Woodward was the first celebrity to receive"
"in his next project. She gained a second Academy Award for Best Actress for Frank's ""A Touch of Class"" (1973). She continued to work in the theatre, and returned to the RSC to play the lead role in Ibsen's ""Hedda Gabler"". A later film version directed by Trevor Nunn was released as ""Hedda"" (1975), for which Jackson was nominated for an Oscar. In ""The New York Times"", Vincent Canby praised Jackson's performance: ""This version of ""Hedda Gabler"" is all Miss Jackson's Hedda and, I must say, great fun to watch ... Miss Jackson's technical virtuosity is particularly suited to a"
"Circle of Children, Part II"" (1978). In 1979, the Supersisters trading card set was produced and distributed; one of the cards featured Alexander's name and picture. Alexander's other television films include Arthur Miller's ""Playing for Time"", co-starring Vanessa Redgrave, for which Alexander won another Emmy Award; ""Malice in Wonderland"" (as famed gossip-monger Hedda Hopper); ""Blood & Orchids""; and ""In Love and War"" (1987) co-starring James Woods, which tells the story of James and Sybil Stockdale during Stockdale's eight years as a US Navy Commander and prisoner of war in Vietnam. Alexander also played the protagonist, Dr. May Foster, in the"
"Art of Love"" (1965), ""The Chase"" (1966), ""Point Blank"" (1967), ""Pretty Maids All in a Row"" (1971), ""The Outside Man"" (1972) and ""Big Bad Mama"" (1974). From 1974 to 1978, Dickinson starred as Sergeant Leann ""Pepper"" Anderson in the NBC crime series ""Police Woman"", for which she received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama and three Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series nominations. As lead actress, she starred in Brian De Palma's erotic crime thriller ""Dressed to Kill"" (1980), for which she received a Saturn Award for Best Actress. During"
"1944, Stanwyck had become the highest-paid woman in the United States. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress four times - for ""Stella Dallas"" (1937), ""Ball of Fire"" (1941), ""Double Indemnity"" (1944), and ""Sorry, Wrong Number"" (1948). For her television work, she won three Emmy Awards - for ""The Barbara Stanwyck Show"" (1961), ""The Big Valley"" (1966), and ""The Thorn Birds"" (1983). Her performance in ""The Thorn Birds"" also won her a Golden Globe. She received an Honorary Oscar at the 1982 Academy Award ceremony, and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1986. She was"
"nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She starred in the musical films ""West Side Story"" (1961) and ""Gypsy"" (1962), and received Academy Award for Best Actress nominations for her performances in ""Splendor in the Grass"" (1961) and ""Love with the Proper Stranger"" (1963). Her career continued with films such as ""Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice"" (1969). After this, she took a break from acting and had two children with different husbands, appearing in only three theatrical films during the 1970s. She was married to actor Robert Wagner, then to producer Richard Gregson, and then back"
"shaved. After the series was shown on PBS in the US, Jackson received two Primetime Emmy Awards for her performance. She also portrayed Queen Elizabeth in the film ""Mary, Queen of Scots"", and gained an Academy Award nomination and a BAFTA Award for her role in John Schlesinger's ""Sunday Bloody Sunday"" (both 1971). In that year British exhibitors voted her the 6th most popular star at the British box office. In 1971 she made the first of several appearances with Morecambe and Wise, appearing in a comedy sketch as Cleopatra for the BBC ""Morecambe and Wise Show"" in which she"
"World Apart"" (1970–71). In 1974, she co-starred as a young Zelda Fitzgerald surrogate in the TV movie ""F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Last of the Belles'"" and in 1975, she starred in the popular cult film ""The Rocky Horror Picture Show"". She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for ""Atlantic City"" (1980), ""Thelma & Louise"" (1991), ""Lorenzo's Oil"" (1992), and ""The Client"" (1994), before winning for ""Dead Man Walking"" (1995). She has also won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for ""The Client"", and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress for"
"and Best Sound (Bob Jones, John Aldred). The film received several Golden Globe Award nominations, including Best Motion Picture - Drama, Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama (Glenda Jackson), Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama (Vanessa Redgrave), Best Original Score (John Barry), and Best Screenplay (John Hale). Mary, Queen of Scots (1971 film) Mary, Queen of Scots is a 1971 British Universal Pictures biographical film based on the life of Mary, Queen of Scots, written by John Hale and directed by Charles Jarrott. Leading an all-star cast are Vanessa Redgrave as the title character and Glenda Jackson as Elizabeth I."
"We're in Love"", and ""Oklahoma!"". In 1955 it was made into an Academy Award-winning musical film, the first feature shot with the Todd-AO 70 mm widescreen process. The film starred Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones, and its soundtrack was #1 on the 1956 album charts. After their initial success with ""Oklahoma!"", the pair took a break from working together and Hammerstein concentrated on the musical ""Carmen Jones"", a Broadway version of Bizet's ""Carmen"" with the characters changed to African Americans in the contemporary South, for which he wrote the book and lyrics. The musical was adapted to the screen in"
"debut) virtually reprised a similar role fifteen years earlier in ""Women's Prison""."" ""Women's Prison"", released in February 1955, actually preceded the January 1972 broadcast of ""Women in Chains"" by seventeen years, and both Weldon and Marill also misstated Lupino's prison position (head guard) in the later film. Women in Chains Women in Chains is an American television film directed in 1972 by Bernard L. Kowalski for ABC's ""The Movie of the Week"". The leading players are Ida Lupino, Belinda Montgomery, Lois Nettleton and Jessica Walter. Parole officer Sandra Parker (Lois Nettleton) becomes aware of the death of one of her"
"Directors Guild of America Awards, winning in the category Movies for Television and Mini-Series for ""Lincoln"" (1988) and for ""That Certain Summer"" (1972). He also won DGA Awards for Most Outstanding TV Director (1972) and for Television — ""My Sweet Charlie"" (1970) and ""Oscar Underwood Story"": ""Profiles in Courage"" (1964). Additionally, he was nominated for DGA Awards for Movies for Television and Mini-Series for ""Wallenberg: A Hero's Story"" (1985), ""Fear on Trial"" (1975) and ""The Execution of Private Slovik"" (1974). Another DGA Award nomination was for Dramatic Series for ""Birdbath"" (1971). Johnson married actress Toni Merrill in Paris in 1945."
"of ""Long Day's Journey into Night"". She also received Tony nominations for ""The Year of Magical Thinking"" and ""Driving Miss Daisy"". On screen, she has starred in scores of films and is a six-time Oscar nominee, winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the title role in the film ""Julia"" (1977). Her other nominations were for """" (1966), ""Isadora"" (1968), ""Mary, Queen of Scots"" (1971), ""The Bostonians"" (1984) and ""Howards End"" (1992). Among her other films are ""A Man for All Seasons"" (1966), ""Blowup"" (1966), ""Camelot"" (1967), ""The Devils"" (1971), ""Murder on the Orient Express"" (1974), ""Prick Up"
"Woman in Love ""Woman in Love"" is a song performed by Barbra Streisand and taken from her 1980 album, ""Guilty"". The song was written by Barry and Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees, who received the 1980 Ivor Novello award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. It is her fourth of four Platinum records, and is considered her greatest international hit. After the success enjoyed by the Bee Gees in the late 1970s, the band was asked to participate in musical endeavors for other artists, and Streisand asked Barry Gibb to write an album for her. This album ultimately became"
"is one of the finest actresses in the world. I'd seen the thing that she did for Ken Russell – 'Isadora'"". Another memorable performance on British television was as Mary, Queen of Scots, in ""Elizabeth R"" (1971) with Glenda Jackson in the lead role. Around the same time she also worked with Jackson in John Schlesinger's film, ""Sunday Bloody Sunday"" (1971), in which she played the bohemian mother who employed Jackson as a babysitter. Other screen roles include ""Play Dirty"" (1969, with Michael Caine), ""The Looking Glass War"" (1969), ""Hello-Goodbye"" (1970), ""Nicholas and Alexandra"" (1971), ""Candleshoe"" (1977), and two films"
"She continues to do different roles and can be found on TV and stage. She is married to Chris Mann and they have a son, Rupert. Jennie Linden Jennie Linden (born 8 December 1939) is an English film and television actress. She is best known for her role in the film ""Women in Love"" (1969). Linden was born in Worthing to Marcus and Freida Fletcher, an architect and housewife. She attended the Central School of Speech and Drama at the age of 17 on a scholarship. Her classmates included Julie Christie and Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave. Her earliest film appearances"
"in 1974 for 'Best New Artist'. During 1974, she recorded two movie themes: ""We May Never Love Like This Again"" from the disaster film ""The Towering Inferno"", in which she made a short appearance when she is seen singing the song as the evening's entertainment, and ""Wherever Love Takes Me"" from the British disaster film ""Gold"". The former won an Oscar (though it was only a minor pop hit), and the latter received an Oscar nomination. In 1976, she recorded her cover version of ""The Continental"", the very first Oscar-winning track for Best Original Song. It proved to be her"
"was followed by ""Dante's Inferno"" about the painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his tortuous relationship with his wife Elizabeth. His second major commercial film was ""Billion Dollar Brain"" (1967), starring Michael Caine, based on author Len Deighton's Harry Palmer spy cycle. In 1969, Russell directed what is considered his ""signature film"", ""Women In Love"", an adaptation of D. H. Lawrence's novel of the same name about two artist sisters living in post-World War I Britain. The film starred Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed, Jennie Linden and Alan Bates. The film is notable for its nude wrestling scene, which broke"
"by her second husband, Elia Kazan, including ""Splendor in the Grass"" (1961). Her subsequent performance in a 1964 Broadway production of ""After the Fall"" earned her a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress. In 1970, Loden wrote, directed, and starred in ""Wanda"", a groundbreaking independent film that won the International Critics Award at the 1970 Venice Film Festival. Throughout the 1970s, she continued to work directing Off-Broadway and regional theater productions, as well as direct two short films. In 1978, Loden was diagnosed with breast cancer, of which she died two years later. Loden was born on July 8 of"
"Women in Chains Women in Chains is an American television film directed in 1972 by Bernard L. Kowalski for ABC's ""The Movie of the Week"". The leading players are Ida Lupino, Belinda Montgomery, Lois Nettleton and Jessica Walter. Parole officer Sandra Parker (Lois Nettleton) becomes aware of the death of one of her cases, Ginger Stratton, at the hands of brutal prison guard Claire Tyson (Ida Lupino). All too aware of Tyson's impeccable record, Parker and her friend, Assistant District Attorney Helen Anderson (Penny Fuller), come to the conclusion that Tyson is basically untouchable. Parker hatches a scheme to expose"
"Marsha Mason Marsha Mason (born April 3, 1942) is an American actress and director. She was nominated four times for the Academy Award for Best Actress; for her performances in ""Cinderella Liberty"" (1973), ""The Goodbye Girl"" (1977), ""Chapter Two"" (1979), and ""Only When I Laugh"" (1981). The first two films also won her Golden Globe Awards. She was married for ten years (1973–83) to the playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon, who was the writer of three of her four Oscar-nominated roles. Mason's film debut was in the 1966 film ""Hot Rod Hullabaloo"". Her other films include ""Blume in Love"" (1973),"
"Streep's other Oscar-nominated roles were in ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"" (1981), ""Silkwood"" (1983), ""Out of Africa"" (1985), ""Ironweed"" (1987), ""Evil Angels"" (1988), ""Postcards from the Edge"" (1990), ""The Bridges of Madison County"" (1995), ""One True Thing"" (1998), ""Music of the Heart"" (1999), ""Adaptation"" (2002), ""The Devil Wears Prada"" (2006), ""Doubt"" (2008), ""Julie & Julia"" (2009), """" (2013), ""Into the Woods"" (2014), ""Florence Foster Jenkins"" (2016), and ""The Post"" (2017). She returned to the stage for the first time in over 20 years in The Public Theater's 2001 revival of ""The Seagull"", and won a second Emmy Award and a Golden"
"Line"" (1970), opposite Gregory Peck; ""A Safe Place"" (1971), co-starring Jack Nicholson and Orson Welles and directed by Henry Jaglom; and ""Play It as It Lays"" (1972), again with Perkins, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. Weld began to work again in television, starring in ""Reflections of Murder"" (1974) and ""F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood"" (1975) where she played Zelda Fitzgerald. Weld attracted attention as the favored, out-of-control Katherine in ""Looking for Mr. Goodbar"" (1977) and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress; later she appeared in ""Who'll Stop the Rain"" (1978) opposite"
"(1975), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. She became only the third actress to ever win an Academy Award, BAFTA Award and Golden Globe Award for a single performance, after Audrey Hepburn and Liza Minnelli. Other notable film roles include """" (1977), ""Brainstorm"" (1983), ""Firestarter"" (1984), ""Flowers in the Attic"" (1987), ""2 Days in the Valley"" (1996), and ""Cruel Intentions"" (1999). Later in her career, Fletcher returned to television, appearing as Winn Adami in """" (1993–1999), as well as receiving"
"in sweat."""" Allen was nominated for the Emmy Award for Best Actress four times during the show's run. She is the only actress to have appeared in all three screen incarnations of ""Fame"", playing Lydia Grant in both the 1980 film and 1982 television series and playing the school principal in the 2009 remake. Allen was also lead choreographer for the film and television series, winning two Emmy Awards and one Golden Globe Award. In 1981, she had the important role of Sarah, the lover of Coalhouse Walker (Howard E. Rollins) who is killed while trying to defend him in"