Glenda reprising the role she had already made famous in the BBC TV series "Elizabeth R".
Talk of Vanessa always brings to mind what Laurence Olivier, who was a close friend of her father, did when she was born. When he heard the news he interrupted the play he was appearing in and said to the audience, "Ladies and Gentlemen, I have an announcement to make. Today, a great actress has been born!"
How prescient was that?
Either prescient, or educated guesswork based on the acting accomplishments of both parents.
I also avidly watched the "Elizabeth R" series when it was originally aired. IMHO, much more serious and accurate in fact than the later feature film "Mary Queen of Scots" with Glenda and which includes a scene in which the two queens meet face-to-face in a private forest encounter that becomes heated. All for dramatic effect, and I understand all about "creative license" in story-telling, but then Elizabeth was careful never to meet Mary at all even once in the many years when the latter was in exile in England. Any schoolboy knows that, even ones that become script writers later in life and play very loose with real historic lives!
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