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Jun 25, 2024 · The Great Lillian Hall is a new HBO Max film about an acclaimed theater actress (the great Jessica Lange) who faces a diagnosis of Lewy body dementia. Notably, writer Elisabeth Seldes Annacone loosely based her script on Marian Seldes (1928-2014), her late aunt who had the same disorder and was also a stage legend.
Jun 19, 2024 · Nevertheless, Elisabeth Seldes Annacone’s screenplay never sees Lilian through the cliché lens of motherly guilt. It paints Lilian as formidable but never pitiable and portrays her as a larger-than-life figure who realizes her life has limits like any other being.
Jun 20, 2024 · Yes, let us consider that Marian Seldes is the foundation for The Great Lillian Hall, but a glorious edifice has been erected on that foundation, and we owe it to Jessica Lange, Michael Cristofer, Elisabeth Seldes Annacone, and the rest of the film’s cast to spend some time within it.
Jun 9, 2024 · Scripter Elisabeth Seldes Annacone was inspired by her aunt, Tony Award-winning stage and film actress Marian Hall Seldes, whose busy career included every one of the 1,809 performances of Ira Levin’s play “Deathtrap,” which earned her mention in the “Guinness Book of World Records.”
Jun 26, 2024 · Writer: Elisabeth Seldes Annacone. Stars: Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Lily Rabe. Let us not forget “King Kong,” but “Postman” sticks in my memory. Here, then is her latest, “The Great Lillian...
Jun 10, 2024 · The screenplay by Elisabeth Seldes Annacone is loosely based on the screenwriter's real life Aunt, Broadway legend Marian Seldes, who is perhaps best known for creating the role of Myra Bruhl in the original Broadway production of Deathtrap.
5 days ago · In “The Great Lillian Hall,” Jessica Lange plays a veteran theater actress — a legend of the Broadway stage —who is always putting on airs, reciting bits from her favorite roles, and carrying on in the tradition of fabled actresses who get known for playing characters like Blanche DuBois because the...
