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Olivia (1951 film) Olivia. (1951 film) Olivia (also known as The Pit of Loneliness) is a 1951 French film directed by Jacqueline Audry, and based on the 1950 semi- autobiographical novel of the same name by Dorothy Bussy. [1] It has been called a "landmark of lesbian representation".
Olivia Hussey (born Olivia Osuna; 17 April 1951) is a British-Argentine actress. Her awards include a Golden Globe Award and a David di Donatello Award. The daughter of Argentine opera singer Andrés Osuna, Hussey was born in Buenos Aires but spent most of her early life in her mother's native England. She aspired to become an actress at a ...
Joan Fontaine. Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland (October 22, 1917 – December 15, 2013), known professionally as Joan Fontaine, was an English-American actress who is best known for her starring roles in Hollywood films during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Fontaine appeared in more than 45 films in a career that spanned five decades.
Film and television. Olivia (1951 film), a French film based on the Bussy novel. Olivia (1983 film), an American psychological thriller film. Olivia (TV series), a 2009 children's animated TV series. "Olivia" ( Fringe episode), 2010. "Olivia" ( Sugar episode), 2024.
Vivien Leigh (/ l iː / LEE; born Vivian Mary Hartley; 5 November 1913 – 8 July 1967), styled as Lady Olivier after 1947, was a British actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice, for her performances as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) and Blanche DuBois in the film version of A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), a role she had also played on stage in London's West ...
The film is said to have inspired the 1949 novel Olivia by Dorothy Bussy, which treats very similar themes, and which was made into a French film Olivia (1951) directed by Jacqueline Audry. There is a German remake of the film produced in 1958.
Entered into the 1951 Cannes Film Festival: The King of Camelots: André Berthomieu: Robert Lamoureux, Colette Ripert, Yves Deniaud: Comedy: Life Is a Game: Raymond Leboursier: Rellys, Jacqueline Delubac, Jimmy Gaillard: Comedy: Love and Desire: Henri Decoin: Martine Carol, António Vilar, Carmen Sevilla: Drama: Co-production with Spain The ...
Patricia Neal (born Patsy Louise Neal; January 20, 1926 – August 8, 2010) was an American actress of stage and screen.She is well known for, among other roles, playing World War II widow Helen Benson in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), radio journalist Marcia Jeffries in A Face in the Crowd (1957), wealthy matron Emily Eustace Failenson in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), and the worn-out ...