An interview with actress Claire Bloom, who discusses her roles in Brideshead Revisited, The King's Speech, Limelight and Crimes and Misdemeanors. She also shares anecdotes about working with Charlie Chaplin and Woody Allen, and discusses her relationships with Richard Burton, Rod Steiger and author Philip Roth.

She created one of the most indelible images ever brought to the big screen as the wily Southern survivor Scarlett O'Hara. Vivien Leigh's rise to fame and subsequent faltered steps are detailed in Hollywood Remembers: Vivien Leigh -- Scarlett and Beyond. Leigh began her career with the role that earned her an Academy award. Competing with such names as Bette Davis and Tallulah Bankhead, the British starlet rose quickly through the ranks to become a much-respected actress. She married fellow legend Laurence Oliver in a partnership that lasted 20 years. Throughout her career, Leigh assumed role after role that garnered her much praise. She became Anna Karenina in 1948 and Blanche Dubois from A Streetcar Named Desire three years later. Despite her successes, Leigh battled tuberculosis and mental illness constantly. She suffered miscarriages and underwent electric shock therapy. In the end, the viewer is left with an impression of talent and distinction contained in one of the most luminous careers of all time.

Released on DVD as part of The Criterion Collection’s “Martha Graham: Dance on Film” collection.

Greek princess Electra waits for her brother, Orestes, to return home and help her plan revenge on their mother, Clytemnestra, for her murdering of their father, Agamemnon, in Sophocles' tragedy.

Hedda Gabler, daughter of an aristocratic general, has just returned to her villa in Kristiania (now Oslo) from her honeymoon. Her husband is Jørgen Tesman, an aspiring, young, reliable (but not brilliant) academic who has combined research with their honeymoon. It becomes clear in the course of the play that she has never loved him but has married him for reasons pertaining to the boring nature of her life. It is also suggested that she may be pregnant.
The reappearance of Tesman's academic rival, Ejlert Løvborg, throws their lives into disarray. Løvborg, a writer, is also a recovered alcoholic who has wasted his talent until now. Thanks to a relationship with Hedda's old schoolmate Thea Elvsted (who has left her husband for him), Løvborg shows signs of rehabilitation and has just completed a bestseller in the same field as Tesman.
The critical success of his recently published work transforms Løvborg into a threat to Tesman, as Løvborg becomes a competitor for the university professorship Tesman had been counting on. Tesman and Gabler are financially overstretched, and Tesman tells Hedda that he will not be able to finance the regular entertaining or luxurious housekeeping that Gabler had been expecting. Upon meeting Løvborg, however, the couple discover that he has no intention of competing for the professorship, but rather has spent the last few years labouring with Mrs. Elvsted over what he considers to be his masterpiece, the "sequel" to his recently published work.
Apparently jealous of Mrs. Elvsted's influence over Løvborg, Gabler hopes to come between them. She provokes Løvborg to get drunk and go to a party. Tesman returns home from the party and reveals that he found the manuscript of Løvborg's great work, which the latter has lost while drunk. When Gabler next sees Løvborg, he confesses to her, despairingly, that he has lost the manuscript. Instead of telling him that the manuscript has been found, Gabler encourages him to commit suicide, giving him a pistol. She then burns the manuscript and tells Tesman she has destroyed it to secure their future.
When the news comes that Løvborg has indeed killed himself, Tesman and Mrs. Elvsted are determined to try to reconstruct his book from Løvborg's notes, which Mrs. Elvsted has kept. Gabler is shocked to discover from Judge Brack (a friend of Tesman's), that Løvborg's death, in a brothel, was messy and probably accidental (this "ridiculous and vile" death contrasts with the "beautiful and free" one that Gabler had imagined for him). Worse, Brack knows the origins of the pistol. He tells Gabler that if he reveals what he knows, a scandal will likely arise due to her role in giving Løvborg the pistol. Gabler realizes that this places Brack in a position of power over her. Leaving the others, she goes into her smaller room and shoots herself in the head. The others in the room assume that Gabler is simply firing shots, and they follow the sound to investigate. The play ends with Tesman, Brack, and Mrs. Elvsted discovering her body.

　　影片以见证人、叙述者查理斯·赖德的视角讲述了二战爆发前的英国，伦敦近郊布赖兹赫德庄园的兴盛与沉沦，描写了这个天主教家庭的生活与命运。牛津大学，查理斯结交了贵族出身身份显赫的纨绔子弟圣巴斯蒂安·弗雷特。圣巴斯蒂安严苛的母亲马奇曼侯爵夫人掌管着布赖兹赫德庄园，庄园上下都是虔诚的天主教徒。然而父亲抛弃妻子与情妇久居威尼斯的丑闻，给子女从小就留下了耻辱的印记，扭曲了他们的天性。日日饮酒作乐纸醉金迷的圣巴斯蒂安，邀请查理斯到庄园参加他的家族晚宴。查理斯对圣巴斯蒂安的妹妹朱莉娅一见倾心。三人间扑朔迷离、暧昧不清的感情纠葛从此展开，跨越数十载，那些爱与生活，痛苦与信仰，都经不住物是人非。

该片细腻且深刻地描写出各类神秘的双面间谍的故事，书中复杂的斗智活动、两难的道德处境、暧昧的善恶定义、纠结的人际关系，情节引人入胜，内容富含人生哲理。

一位研究心理学家参与了四位女性的个人生活。