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Film Forum:
No Non-Irish Need Apply?

By Joseph McBride, Contributor
December / January 2001

December 1, 2000 by Leave a Comment

Ethnic casting issues in movies. Our moviegoing experience would be much diminished if we had never had the chance to see Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler, Peter O'Toole as Lawrence of Arabia, Greer Garson as Mrs. Miniver, Pierce Brosnan as James Bond, or Kenneth Branagh as Henry V. We would have been equally impoverished if we had not seen Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara … [Read more...] about Film Forum:
No Non-Irish Need Apply?

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