Isadora (1968)
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Vanessa Redgrave stars in this film biography of the free-spirited modern interpretive dancer Isadora Duncan. Trained in classical dance, Duncan shattered the traditional conformities in her art and her personal life. The film begins at the end of her life as she recalls the past while dictating her memoirs to her male secretary. Her uninhibited sexuality and insistence on personal freedom and expression shocked more conservative and narrow-minded patrons and audiences. She brought in elements of classic Greek dance during the height of the jazz age and had children in and out of wedlock. Married to sewing-machine heir Paris Singer (Jason Robards) and the Russian poet Sergei Essenin (Ivan Tchenko), her life was a rollercoaster ride of success and tragic failures. Two of her children drowned when her chauffeur left the car unattended and the vehicle plunged into a river. Duncan lived by her own rules, often shunned by the very people who had so passionately embraced her pioneering efforts in dance, women's liberation and free thinking. Redgrave was nominated for an Oscar for her performance. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Vanessa Redgrave - Isadora Duncan
- James Fox - Gordon Craig
- Ivan Tchenko - Sergei Essenin
- Cynthia Harris - Mary Desti
- Tony Vogel - Raymond Duncan
- Nicholas Pennell - Bedford
- Christian Duvallex - Armand
- Alan Gifford - Tour Manager
- David Healy - Chicago Theater Manager
- John Warner - Mr. Sterling
- Margaret Courtenay - Raucous Woman
- John Fraser - Roger
- Jason Robards, Jr. - Paris Singer
- Bessie Love - Mrs. Duncan
- Libby Glenn - Elizabeth Duncan
- John Quentin - Pim
- Ronnie Gilbert - Miss Chase
- John Brandon - Gospel Billy
- Wallace Eaton - Archer
- Ina DeLa Haye - Russian Teacher
- Arthur White - Hearty Husband
- Director(s):
- Karel Reisz
- Writer(s):
- Sewell Stokes, Clive Exton, Margaret Drabble
- Producer(s):
- Robert Hakim, Raymond Hakim
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- 1969 - Isadora - National Society of Film Critics - Best Actress
