Why wasn't she a bigger star? A brilliant actress of stage & film, very beautiful and magnetic onscreen.. her first film Limelight (1952) starring alongside Charlie Chaplin, was a great success critically and commercially. The Spy Who Came in From The Cold (1965) was also very good. She's 91 now.

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November 16, 2022 3:41 AM

She was the favourite actress of out high school Latin teacher.

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July 20, 2022 8:58 PM

Odd nose, didn't give up the snatch.

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July 20, 2022 9:14 PM

Read Phillip Roth’s I Married a Communist. The female protagonist is a scathing portrait of Bloom.

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July 20, 2022 9:55 PM

Brilliant as the blowsy, tormented nymphomaniac in The Chapman Report because she's a divorcee, thus blemished from a lack of marital sex in her life. She succumbs to a gang bang with postal workers she surreptitiously invites into her house, then hangs herself.

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July 20, 2022 10:05 PM

Beautiful and perfectly cast in The Haunting. Roth trashed her but he was a truly horrible person so I don't take anything he said seriously. I know DLers love to tease perpetual ingenue Catherine Zeta Jones but I thought she fit the part perfectly in the much maligned sequel as well. The sequel wasn't that great but the casting was perfect , especially Jones and Taylor.

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July 20, 2022 10:15 PM

She was just as beautiful as Liz Taylor, and the better actress to boot. Liz was a jealous wreck on the set of The Spy Who Came in From The Cold

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July 21, 2022 2:20 AM

She had a great stint on As the World Turns in the 90s, to finance her divorce proceedings from Philip Roth.

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July 21, 2022 2:24 AM

Didn't she play Doc Martin's cunty mother?

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July 21, 2022 2:28 AM

I only know her from Clash of the Titans and her part in that was pretty small

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July 21, 2022 2:51 AM

I thought Claire Bloom was superb as Lady Marchmain in the Brideshead Revisited . I can’t think of anyone who could have played that role better .

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July 21, 2022 2:59 AM

That was a remake of The Haunting, not a sequel. And an awful remake at that.

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July 21, 2022 4:34 AM

She lacks the charisma or star power to be anything more than a leading lady to a bigger male co-star. Lots of those types around back in the day. I can't imagine her carrying her own pictures. She was like another Jean Simmons, when one was more than enough.

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July 21, 2022 4:42 AM

[quote]R8 She had a great stint on As the World Turns in the 90s

This may be judge-y, but I could never trust someone named Orlena.

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July 21, 2022 6:45 AM

[quote]Beautiful and perfectly cast in The Haunting.

Her character in "The Haunting," Theo, was lesbionic. Unusual for a movie released in 1963.

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July 21, 2022 7:02 AM

I'd like to know what went down with her role as Orleana Grimaldi. She signed a limited contract, but for some reason, the story wasn't completed by the time that ended so she left and was replaced by Lynn Milgrim who got all the over-the-top psycho stuff. Bloom had been very subtle, even when killing brother-in-law Eduardo (Nicolas Coster) in his hospital room. Orleana was the Oakdale equivalent of Vanessa Cortlandt, Justine Harrison, Helena Cassadine and Carmen Santos, with a bit of Vivian Alamain thrown in

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July 21, 2022 9:21 AM

r17 Rula Lenska was supposed to replace Claire as Orlena but had a scheduling conflict in England. She would have been fun.

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July 21, 2022 11:33 AM

r13 she doesn't lack charisma. Claire is an internal actress. She has an incredible presence.

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July 21, 2022 12:41 PM

A brilliant actress. The best Ibsen woman

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November 16, 2022 3:41 AM