Vanessa Redgrave was born on 30 January 1937 in Blackheath, ... (1977), she starred in the title role as a woman murdered by the Nazi German regime in the years prior to World War II for her anti-Fascist activism. Her co-star in the film was Jane Fonda (playing writer Lillian Hellman). In her 2005 autobiography, Fonda wrote that:

It is based on a chapter from Lillian Hellman's 1973 book Pentimento about the author's relationship with a lifelong friend, Julia, who fought against the Nazis in the years prior to World War II. The film stars Jane Fonda as Hellman and Vanessa Redgrave as Julia.

The Gathering Storm: Directed by Richard Loncraine. With Albert Finney, Vanessa Redgrave, Jim Broadbent, Linus Roache. Winston Churchill's wilderness years prior to World War II, when only he could see the threat that Adolf Hitler and a rearmed Germany posed to Europe.

Playing for Time is a 1980 CBS television film, written by Arthur Miller and based on acclaimed musician Fania Fénelon 's autobiography The Musicians of Auschwitz. Vanessa Redgrave stars as Fénelon.

Nov 17, 2011 · Yanks, WWII movie starring Richard Gere and Vanessa Redgrave (1979) From early 1942 on, the “Yanks” came over to Britain to fly out of their airfields and then, as portrayed in this movie, as the build-up of troops prior to the Normandy landings.

Apr 24, 2002 · The movie depicts the couple’s combative yet affectionate and supportive relationship during the years leading up to World War II, when Churchill (played by Albert Finney) was out of power but...

Jan 3, 2008 · Vanessa REDGRAVE was 3 years old during the evacuation of Dunkirk, the 1940 rescue operation of British and French troops that is portrayed to gripping effect -- via a …

Apr 25, 2002 · A love story and a tale of political redemption frame two engaging performances by Albert Finney and Vanessa Redgrave in "The Gathering Storm," a detailed look at Winston Churchill's determined...

Oct 16, 2017 · During the World War II bombing of London, a three-year old Redgrave was sent into the British countryside where she was taken in by the town’s residents. Redgrave, on camera, recounts this experience intercut with still photographs of her during this time, referring to herself as an “internally displaced person.”

In World War II, the Jewish French musician and cabaret singer Fania Fenelon Goldstein (Vanessa Redgrave) is sent by the Nazis from Paris to the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. The guards take her clothing and luggage and they cut her hair very short.