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From: Evening Standard - London
Date: 20001012
Author:ALEXANDER WALKER

THE trouble with Gillian Anderson's brave stab at Edith Wharton's social-climbing heroine Lily Bart is that it requires three different actresses to play her. All three, for one reason or the other, are no longer active in films. Bette Davis would do the scheming socialite who knows she's been around too long unattached and needs to find a husband both rich and respectable. Olivia De Havilland would do the woman discovering that marriage comes with purse strings attached and these are generally held by others.

And, finally, Jane Wyman would animate the panic of a woman falling from hope into ...

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