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This 5 page report discusses director George Stevens’ “A Place in the Sun” (1951) starring Montgomery Clift as George Eastman and Elizabeth Taylor as Angela Vickers as lovers separated by both social class and circumstance. The audience understands almost from the first that their relationship is most certainly doomed. No secondary sources.
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likely to succeed or have the proverbial happy ending. In the 1950s, a movie that deviated from the boy meets girl then deals with minor roadblocks to happiness but ultimately
end up in "happily ever after" as generally thought of as being, somehow, subversive. Assumptions of "happily-ever-after" most often carried with them certain parameters that defined how such happiness or
"a place in the sun" was to be obtained. George and Angela Montgomery Clift as George Eastman and Elizabeth Taylor as Angela Vickers in "A Place in the Sun" (1951)
immediately establish a situation in which the dynamic tension between the characters is every bit a player as any of the actual physical actors. Director George Stevens won the Academy
Award for best director for the movie in great measure for the way he sets up a scenario in which the audience almost immediately understands that the various good things
that have happened to George -- meeting his long-lost uncle, landing a good job, falling for the beautiful Angela and having her fall for him -- are all completely capricious.
Everything appears to be too good for George and if one relies on the old adage of "its too good to be true it probably isnt," the outcomes of the
story may easily be predicted. Added to the overall sense of "too-good-to-be-true" is the absolutely impossible beauty of both Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor in their prime. (Taylor was only
17 years old and playing Angela was her first "adult" role.) They are physically perfect and together, make a couple that is heartbreakingly beautiful. At the risk of using yet
another clich?, they form such a perfect blossom that it is certain they will not be able to last for long. The tragedy of the story, as was Theodore Dreisers
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