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CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS AND THE CINEMA
The best film of this kind, I think was Queen Victoria. It was not just one film but the best parts of three films put together.
The film itself dealt with the reign of Queen Victoria. It was quite long and it was in technicolour.
The film showed how well faces can be altered, as one actress acted Queen Victoria when she was eighteen and when she was very old. Also the scenery in the film was lovely. I think of all the films that I have seen Queen Victoria was my favourite film and I would like to see it again.
2. S.G.
If anyone asked me what my favourite film was, I should answer, without hesitation, Gone with the Wind. My reason for choosing this film is not, as many people think, because of its exceptionally long run in town or because of its wonderful criticisms when it first came out.
When I read the book, although I had not yet seen the film, I thought Margaret Mitchell must have centred Rett Butler's part around Clark Gable, so alike in description were the two people. I cannot imagine any one else as the part.
Having seen the film Adam had Four Sons before I had read Gone with the Wind, when I actually did read the book, I could imagine no better Scarlett O'Hara than lovely Susan Haywood, and I was therefore frightened in case I should be disappointed in Vivien Leigh's portrayal of that part, thinking that the Southern accent would be too much for an English actress to cope with.
I went to see the film soon after its first arrival in London and I have never enjoyed sitting for three hours more than I did then. In case I should be bored I took three bars of chocolate with me but I was so enthralled with the film I forgot to eat them — a thing which has never happened to me before.
The casting of Gone with the Wind was, to my mind, superb. Leslie Howard was the perfect Ashley Wilkes as was Olivia de Haviland who played the part of Melanie, though I really thought she was too kind, too good to live, (which she didn't) . This occurred to me in both the film and the book.
The part of Mammy was really excellently acted by a negress, who although I have seen her before, cannot recall her name.
The technicolour . . .
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