Doctor Zhivago

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton! Went to see the film Cleopatra as a school girl and hated Liz Taylor with a vengeance since then. Burton seemed to be bewitched by her!

I saw this film first when I was about 18 and found the love story with Lara to be so romantic. Watching it again as a married woman with an errant husband I deeply sympathised with his wife. Now watching for the third time I have been upset and moved by the horrors of the revolution and the suffering of the people. That must say something about the aging process!

On the other hand I was deeply in love with both Omar Sharif and also Peter O'Toole and I think I still am. I thought they were the most beautiful men I had ever seen and I still do.

I saw Dr Zhivago in Nairobi and loved it. This has prompted me to find 'Lara's Theme' and it's playing right now. When I left the cinema, the warm tropical evening came as a shock after all that snow!

I loved this film - I learned how to play Backgammon after reading that Omar Sharif played. We'd obviously need to spend some time playing it!
I second Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind. Another extraordinarily handsome couple - Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman in Notorious.

I loved the film when I watched it some time ago as a teenager. However this time around I too thought it was far fetched and some of the acting was very wooden. I must remember in future not to rewatch films that I enjoyed in my youth, age has made me cynical?

b1zzle

Was Katya Pasha's daughter? I've often wondered if it was Viktor...

Oh, that never occurred to me, innocent that I am!

Who looked after her when Lara was making cows eyes at Yuri over the operating table, when they worked together for six months, and Pasha was flying round the country on his pretty red train?

Was Katya Pasha's daughter? I've often wondered if it was Viktor...

I love the film and read the book a long time ago. I had heard that the bit on the train where the woman was running alongside and tripped under the wheels actually happened. I'm not sure if it's true or not.

Do you mean when she left with Rod Steiger (Victor somebody or other?) Well, Lara said on the train that she knew Yuri wouldn’t accept help from Victor.

Did Yuri not wonder about Sacha and the new baby Tonya had? And what happened to Katya, Lara’s daughter by Pasha?
Because the baby girl she searched for was the one she had with Yuri.

Tonya and her dad and children ended up in Paris I think.

I read the book years ago, but can’t remember the nitty gritty.

Just rewatched it and never really thought it through when I was younger. Probably just was enthralled by the romance and Omar ! But why didn't Yuri follow Lara,when there was a chance to leave Russia with her ? Was he planning to try and find Tonya and Sacha or was he rooted in his home country ?
Any thoughts ?

I watched it from the start. Omar Sharif was so gorgeous, but what really struck me on this watching was how much better an actress Gerldine Chaplin was compared with Julie Christie who was gorgeous, but a bit wooden.

Saw with Mr C, second or third date, we went to London, felt an incredibly grown up 19. . Still love the music.

I queued for ages to see Dr. Zhivago, loved it, and the music is as hauntingly beautiful now as it was then.

Thanks Alegrias I'll see if I can get it

I loved Dr Zhivago too, and Omar Sharif. But I think I was just as emotionally involved when I saw Peter O'Toole in 'Lawrence of Arabia'.

Loved this film especially the music and scenery.

paddyanne

Loved Doctor Zhivago ,I worked part time in a;ocal cinema when it was shown and even after an extended time there 3 weeks of twice a day I still love it .I have always been fascinated with Russian history and with the relationship between Scotland and Russia and this however romantisised (is that a word) was a delight back then and even still now

Paddyanne have you read "House on the Dvina"? Its the autobiography of a girl from Dundee who grows up in Archangel in the north of Russia during the Revolution. I always thought it would make a good film, like Dr Zhivago.

Calendar Girl - you are right. I was getting mixed up as Bogart was married to Bacall.

It's a beautiful film "first saw it early teens, remember queueing for it with my friend and overhearing a conversation from two fairly elderly women in front discussing the actors one said "Omar Sharif that sounds Irish to me" friend and I were doing our best to stifle fits of giggles. A few years later same friend and I went to see David Lean's Ryan's Daughter which we also fell in love with. No sign of O' Mar Sharif in that, in spite of it being very Irish!!

Dr zhivago for me too - I fell in love with Omar sharif at the age of ten!

If anyone is interested there’s a program on Boris Pasternak on BBC4 at 10pm tomorrow night ‘The Real Dr Zhivago’

I thought Geraldine Chaplin (Zhivago's poor wife) was rather lovely, too..

Amazing film. I loved it.

Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof .

Yes, Ingrid Bergman was so lovely, but she chose the wrong man, she would have been better off with Rick

Ingrid Bergman was luminously beautiful in Casablanca.

GrandmaMoira

I love Dr Zhivago. I've recently re-read the book but prefer the film. My second favourite film is Gone with the Wind.
The only other screen couples that come close for me are Bogart with Bacall in the African Queen and Bogart again with Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca.

Wasn’t it Katherine Hepburn in The African Queen?
Are you thinking of the one where Bacall asks Bogie if he knows how to whistle - “Just put your lips together and blow!”
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To Have and Have Not? Or a different one?