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cahnAnd in this post:
-luzula is going to tell us about the Jacobites and the '45!
-I'm going to finish reading Nancy Goldstone's book about Maria Theresia and (some of) her children Maria Christina, Maria Carolina, and Marie Antoinette, In the Shadow of the Empress, andselenak is going to tell us all the things wrong with the last four chapters (spoiler: in the first twenty chapters there have been many, MANY things wrong)!
-mildred_of_midgard is going to tell us about Charles XII of Sweden and the Great Northern War
(seriously, how did I get so lucky to have all these people Telling Me Things, this is AWESOME)
-oh, and also there will be Yuletide signups :D
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luzula is going to tell us about the Jacobites and the '45!-I'm going to finish reading Nancy Goldstone's book about Maria Theresia and (some of) her children Maria Christina, Maria Carolina, and Marie Antoinette, In the Shadow of the Empress, and
selenak is going to tell us all the things wrong with the last four chapters (spoiler: in the first twenty chapters there have been many, MANY things wrong)!-
mildred_of_midgard is going to tell us about Charles XII of Sweden and the Great Northern War(seriously, how did I get so lucky to have all these people Telling Me Things, this is AWESOME)
-oh, and also there will be Yuletide signups :D
Re: There never was a tale of greater woe...
Date: 2021-10-20 04:58 am (UTC)you had director Elia Kazan suspecting Olivier must be secretly coaching her. (Which was rubbish.)
>:( Why can't she just be allowed to be awesome? (I know :P )
Ugh to miscarriages and tuberculosis and bipolar :((((( I guess at least her doctors knew there was a problem?
Vivien nearly leaving him for Peter Finch but fog preventing the plane from taking off so Laurence Olivier made it to the airport and could persuade her to stay with him.
This, on the other hand, is lovely!
In the end, though, he left her, for Joan Plowright. (Who'd played his daughter in "The Entertainer".)
...and this is NOT. (I like the detail about her playing his daughter. Ouch.)
To which Joan Plowright presumably said "Thanks, Larry", I guess. She's a fabulous old woman herself now
Heh. This isn't so bad, I guess :P
Re: There never was a tale of greater woe...
Date: 2021-10-22 10:09 am (UTC)A Streetcar Named Desire
My week with Marylin
Tea with the Dames
And here's a shipper's vid proving, if nothing else, that they were a gorgeous couple: In my life