A woman unhappy in her passionless marriage leaves her husband for a younger and more ardent lover.
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Title: The Deep Blue Sea (1955)
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| Cast overview: | |||
| Vivien Leigh | ... | Hester Collyer | |
| Kenneth More | ... | Freddie Page | |
| Eric Portman | ... | Miller | |
| Emlyn Williams | ... | Sir William Collyer | |
| Moira Lister | ... | Dawn Maxwell | |
| Arthur Hill | ... | Jackie Jackson | |
| Dandy Nichols | ... | Mrs. Elton | |
| Jimmy Hanley | ... | Dicer Durston | |
| Miriam Karlin | ... | Barmaid | |
| Heather Thatcher | ... | Lady Dawson | |
| Bill Shine | ... | Golfer | |
| Brian Oulton | ... | Drunk | |
| Sidney James | ... | Man outside bar | |
| Alec McCowen | ... | Ken Thompson | |
| Gibb McLaughlin | ... | Clerk | |
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A woman unhappy in her passionless marriage leaves her husband for a younger and more ardent lover.
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According to Alexander Walker in 'Sex in the Movies', Marlene Dietrich turned down the film "on the grounds that she could never be convincing as a woman who tries to gas herself because she cannot keep her lover or find other men." See more »Quotes
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1 November 1955 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Anyone expecting an aristocratic performance by Vivien Leigh is doomed to disappointment. Clad in a drab series of blouses and slacks, she makes Hester Collier a self-interested neurotic perpetually needing succour from anyone willing to listen. Her main problem is a lack of self-reliance, as the Doctor (Eric Portman) informs her. The men in her life are self-interested in their different ways, and have no emotional capacity to empathise with her. The only person who understands anything is her landlady (Dandy Nichols).
Director Anatole Litvak opens the play to include multiple views of the seedier parts of London, where Hester (Leigh) has voluntarily ended up. The sera is hard and tough - not the place for a shrinking violet trying to assert her authority yet failing.