Vanessa Redgrave (actor) pictured in her white hat and boa

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Vanessa Redgrave (actor) pictured in her white hat and boa

Vanessa Redgrave (actor) pictured in her white hat and boa, on set during the filming of Isadora, the biopic based on the life of celebrated American dancer Isadora Duncan..
In this scene she is pictured with co star Zvonimir Crnko. Zvonimir Crnko (billed as Ivan Tchenko) plays the part of Sergey Esenin. It is being filmed at The London Docks.
The film Isadora, is also known as The Loves of Isadora.
The story that supports this picture is....Following the birth of a son, Isadora returns to England but becomes bored with her quiet life and enters into an affair with her pianist, Armand. A short time later, both of her children are drowned when their chauffeur-driven car plunges off a bridge into the Seine. Broken by the tragedy, Isadora leaves Singer and wanders about Europe until in 1921 she receives an offer to open a dancing school in the Soviet Union.
Unaffected by the countrys poverty, she develops a strong rapport with the peasantry and has a passionate affair with Sergei Essenin, a volatile poet whom she marries so that he can obtain a visa to accompany her to the United States.
The film was adapted by Melvyn Bragg, Margaret Drabble, and Clive Exton from the books My Life by Isadora and Isadora, an Intimate Portrait by Sewell Stokes. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress (Vanessa Redgrave). The film was also nominated for the Palme d Or (Golden Palm) at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival, where Redgrave won Best Actress.
Picture taken 14th January 1968

Burton, Ron
Daily Herald
Mirrorpix
London
Greater London
England
1968-1156- B

Media ID 21855276

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