Anna seems to have everything in life that you could want. Money, a husband, and darling boy who absolutely adores her. She has dresses, diamonds, friends, a great personality, charm, poise, and making living the life she leads look effortless. Everything was going well until fate took her own course. While going to visit her brother and his family, her eyes latch unto unexpected love. She falls for a cavalry officer Count Vronsky, even before she knows his name. They start a passionate love affair that they do very little in trying to cover up. When Anna's husband finally learns of her scandal, he tells her that she needs to stop the affair or he will get a divorce and she will never see her son again. Trying to that, and failing, she continues on and eventually leaves her husband and her beloved son. After she becomes pregnant with Vronsky's child, and almost dies after it is still born, and begs to come back to her husband. He accepts, but not with love and affection by any means, and Vronsky is distraught and tries to kill himself. He fails at this attempt, a benefit to him because not long after Anna comes back to him after leaving her husband and child for good. This attempt is plagued by doubts of his true feelings for her and she pushes him away. Feeling that she has lost everything that has truly mattered to her she makes an attempt on her life as well. Only her attempted doesn't fail as Vronsky's did.
Ms. Leigh is one of those actresses that I always want to see more films of but I always find it hard because she does a lot of dramas. Dramas are not bad, it's just that I am a very easy crier and I don't feel like cry every single time a watch a movie. She is in Gone with the Wind, as I have mentioned before. She is also in A Streetcar Named Desire, and Waterloo Bridge. She is not a whole lot of other films but those are the previous ones that I have seen. However, I do remember those because they made me cry. However, I have to say the one thing that I had to really look over was Ms. Leigh's speaking voice. I know that she is originally from England, and has a British accent, however she does so well speak with the lack of accent in those three previous mentioned movies, that I always seem to forget where she originates from.
Regardless of her accent, I think Vivian Leigh is a wonderful actress and I am glad that I undertook this film. This is one of those times where I probably would have skipped the drama for a musical if I wasn't trying to watch all of the movies I own. It was sad but wonderful. It was an oddly nice way to spend a Monday afternoon.
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