The 15 Greatest Performances of All Time

VIVIEN LEIGH (GONE WITH THE WIND) (1939)

Vivien Leigh is virtually in every scene of this four hour movie about love and war in the South during The Civil War. She plays the iconic Scarlett O’Hara made famous by Margaret Mitchell’s book of the same name. The film is a powerful epic with many great performances by the whole cast but it belongs to the dynamic Vivien Leigh. This film and her performance is required viewing for all that are interested in the history of art in film.

“A Couple” Movie Reviews from the Film Vault – Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) and The War of the Roses (1989)

KRAMER vs. KRAMER (1979)

 

THE WAR OF THE ROSES (1989)

 

Two films about marital divorce that tell stories that are 180 degrees apart from each other. The first film, Kramer versus Kramer, is a tender and very personal story of a wife and mother (Meryl Streep) who has an identity crisis and decides to leave her marriage and abandon both her husband (Dustin Hoffman) and her young son (Justin Henry). Part of her problem is that she feels her husband is putting his successful career as an advertising executive first and before his family and not listening to her own creative needs to also be professionally productive.