Kim Stanley, Geraldine Page, Sandy Dennis - THREE SISTERS - Brilliant Acting 

No need to take an acting class. Just watch this over and over. My God - there is more talent in this 2 hour and 46 minute play than in the last 40 YEARS of Oscar Awards ! (Not a Chekhov fan either -but I'd watch these ladies read menus from a Greek Diner for 2 hours and LOVE it !)

This film has two of my favorite actresses Sandy Dennis and Geraldine Page.🙂👍

I never imagined that Checkov could be so vivid, so compelling... so overflowing with energy, passion, with emotional intensity at times bordering on the brink of violence. A revelation!

you have no idea how desperate I was as a nerd ass high schooler wanting to find this bc I was so fixated on Sandy Dennis. I still am, newly 28. thank you so much!!!!!!

so glad to see JAMES OLSON IN A ROMANTIC ROLE SMILING AND LAUGHING

Geraldine page is one of the best actors ever if not the best

The rigors of life and reality pit against the needs and desires of the soul. Timeless.

All these actresses were so profound, Page, Stanley, Winters, and Dennis, all so outstanding in their craft, and as amazing brilliant and beautiful women. Shelly Winters was always one of my favorite human beings. Ever since I saw her as Belle Rosen in The Poseidon Adventure at a drive-in when I was a little kid. She reminded of one of my own strong and beautiful grandmothers.

Thanks. Master piece played master full

I remember my Dramatic Literature teacher in College speaking of this production (which he saw live) and how Sandy Dennis spent the evening blowing spit bubbles through her fingers.....and there she IS, putting her nervous fingers all over her mouth repeatedly. Kim Stanley is brilliant as expected.....the others.....have their moments.

I have a friend who doesn't like to read Chekhov because all the characters are unhappy. I didn't know what to say until it was too late. I wish I'd said, "Yes, it's true. But he has so much compassion for each of them. No judgment. Like a doctor -- like the doctor he was -- he shows them in their pain. And yet -- unlike a doctor -- he is not so foolish as to offer remedies."

YOU ARE AMAZINGGG!!!! I HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR THIS FOR EVER!!

Watched this twice. It's official. I'm in love with Kim Stanley! (forgive me)...MY YOUTH!!

I have wanted to see this performance of Three Sisters for years! And it's great! The acting is superb. Especially Geraldine Page, Kim Stanley, and Luther Adler. Legends of the theater. Thank you for downloading it.

thank you for posting this. A master class in acting with Geraldine Page and Kim Stanley....and a very young Shelley Winters!! To be studied....

Someone here asked when this was made. According to IMDB it was filmed in 1966. I saw this production on Broadway the summer of 1964. I remember reading some time later that it was going to be taped, but until now I could not find it anywhere on screen or TV. Why I never before thought of checking you tube eludes me, but thanks for posting it. I should note that there were only two major cast changes from the production on Broadway. Irina was played by Shirley Knight, not Sandy Dennis (who seems to have gotten the most pans here) and Barbara Baxley played Natalya, not Shelley Winters. The rest of the cast was exactly as shown here. Lee Strasberg, the head of the Actors Studio was listed as the director for the Broadway production, not Paul Bogart. The Three Sisters is one of my all time favorite plays and at 18 I loved the Actors Studio production so I am anxious to finally see this.

OH MY GOD I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS FOR A DECADE. THANK YOU

3 of the greats :::::sandy, geraldine, kim

Man... it's scary how much this reminds me of America today. A listless, neurotic professional class prattling like chickens before the block. Chekov and Dostoevsky saw, or felt in their bones, the end game for the Russian aristocracy. It didn't end prettily, and may not for us.

absolutely absorbing & wonderful translation in the spirit of Russia - all the exagerations, quirks & sung lines people criticise below, for me created a compelling alchemy ... could not drag myself away... thank you.

Wow what a treat. Thank you.

What a gift. Thank you so much!

A GIANT THANK YOU to Primativo 7 for posting this Important and Essential example of Great American Theater -which was briefly seen on film and fell into oblivion. No need to EVER sit thru another THREE SISTERS -none of them will be better than this!

In her later years, Kim Stanley did an AMAZING performance in "Frances" co-starring Jessica Lange (1982). Then they reteamed in the 1984 remake of "Cat on a Hit Tin Roof." Jessica was Maggie and Kim was Big Mama. Flawless performances! It was originally on ShowTime--worth looking up if you haven't seen it.

Sandy Dennis🌳🐈🍋🐀🐞🐇🐦🍑... breaks my heart the loss of gentle, polite, tender womanhood.

THANK YOU!

bless u for posting this gem!

I love u sandy dennis

Sandy Dennis brought all her ticks, stutters and mannerisms to every role she played. Why doesn't anyone ever attempt a Sandy Dennis impression?

Thank you, thank you, what a treat!

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I have been searching for this everywhere and waiting for it to make it to DVD.

Wow, this is really vivid. I really like 3 Sisters this way

I've been searching for this for years. I was almost tempted at one point to pay money to order it. Now that I've seen it, I'm certainly glad I didn't.

I learned of the existence of this production from a clip that was used in Rick McKay's "Broadway: The Golden Age." Great to see it in it's entirety.

And the winner of this year's Over-Non-Acting Strasberg Method Award is . . .

sandy dennis: my divinemuse….

What YEAR is this from ? Sandy Dennis looks fresh from "Virginia Wolf".

thank you for posting this.

Spectacular: thank you so much!

I think Kevin McCarthy's very good, too.

What a Gem ***

Amazing actresses

2:26:07 is when Andrei’s “where has it gone” monologue

Not one of them has any connection to the the time, place, to their relations with each other. Sandy Dennis, with some tutelage as regards Chekhov, Russia...on the brink of collapse of the Czarist system...might be brilliant…although she is putting flowers in a pot by the hundreds, when it needs two, three at most, but connection to them, to her own despair. No one feels the temperature, nor the stillness outside. The first "speech" is just that, a speech out of Shakespeare, not Chekhov. Toozenbach, Lieutenant (Baron) gives every word equal value. Doctor Chebutykin, Luther Adler, is playing his yidishe reputation, as the great Luther Adler. Soliony, Robert Loggia, has no understanding of character in the play, what it symbolizes as regards the others and the violence he manifests. And this only took me five minutes to decipher. Oh my. Stanislavsky and Stella Adler were traded in for Lee Strasberg, Elia Kazan, et al. I am in shock at peoples' comments here, regarding Kim Stanley and Geraldine Page. What these actors don't know or understand, about “acting” Chekhov, as well as acting in general, and therefore, cannot conceive to apply here, is painful in its total-ness. They want to act...pursuing acting as feeling...thinking that if they do not feel, themselves, feeling each word, each thought, they are in denial as actors. While, in truth, it is just the opposite. The actor that goes straight to his uninformed passions…this due to the fact that he, as an American, because of his culture, his society, cannot think, or use his mind, properly…is simply a bad, a very bad, actor. These people don't realize that due to the Russian topography, its injurious weather...ask Napoleon, Hitler, ha...that it takes two days to get to the little station. That your ten year old horse dies on the way back, from landing in a pot hole on the unpassable muddy road. And, not understanding a modicum of these physical circumstances, not understanding even the most basic, therefore, the most essential, facts of doing Chekhov. Chekhov is not Elizabethan Shakespeare, nor is it modern realistic American. It is 19th century European/Russian aristocratic poetic realism. And then? You have Sandy Dennis, Kim Stanley, Geraldine Page, Robert Loggia, and Luther Adler.

00:10 act 1 37:27 act 2

Even though the two works are as different as night and day, every time I read or hear Tuschenbach's comment about Vershinin's wife periodically trying to commit suicide "just to annoy her husband", I think of Aunt Alicia (Isabel Jeans) in the MGM musical "Gigi" on the phone, and taking a break to tell her sister (Hermione Gingold) excitedly: "Liane Dexelmans has committed suicide! AGAIN!" After she hangs up, Gingold asks her "How did she do it?", and Alicia replies calmly "Oh, the usual means. Insufficient poison."

THE OPRNING MONOLOG, ( GERALDINE PAGE), TURNED ME AWAY IN MINUTES PLUS THE AUDIO QUALITY IS INTOLERABLE !

Triste...no hay subtítulos en español. Amo a Chejov, amo a esas actrices impresionantes. ¿Si existen los subtítulos, porqué no los ponen?

I just watched this for the actors and the acting. The story was secondary.

Can someone give me the time stamp for when Irina starts saying “It’s too much for me, I can’t bear it any longer!” In act three.

kim stanley makes them all seem like amateurs......perfection

Which part did John Harkins appear?

10:24------Por aqui, por aqui, paizinho.

Ah boo, the lighting leaves so much of the costumes in murky darkness!

Kim Stanley .. Listen closely… the voice infections and mannerisms . Is Sounds acting 🎭 is Jessica Lang”💃🏻

Use to sleep well to this. Now, disturbed with ads. Thank God I have a DVD player

5:23

utube smile by john bavas

Theyre coming

Im coming too

00:18

26:45--------16

1:30:00

I gave it a bit over 15 minutes. The acting is just fine, especially the ladies, but for the life of me in those 15 minutes I didn't find anything they were talking about particularly interesting.

why are they singing all their lines?

Pretty horrible, with everybody trying to out-under-act one another. And Sandy Dennis was soooo WRONG!

I sent them. Deborah hughes.

it has taken me a week to continue to watch this film, it is very over done and over acted, the only character and actors worth looking at is the brother who relies on mainly silence to get his character across. i dont know his actor name but the others are just hyped up. still only half way through. i just dont get this Russian version of american southerly misery and impending family decay. might be made more suitable if they chose to effect or is that affect southern drawls and had plantation furniture .clothes and sets. or is the word palatable

The Method Acting in this is almost unbearable. Sandy Dennis is the absolute worst. If she put her fist to her face one more time I would have spit blood. Kim Stanley is ghoulish; no wonder this was her last stage performance. Page and Winters fare best, both in terms of casting and interpretation. McCarthy is quite right and Olson, though somewhat miscast, is fine. Robert Loggia--God help us.

Sandy Dennis is a lovely actress but she seems to be working too hard here...too bad...

while this is a good production. i think this, and english language adaptations in general, with their gloom and melancholy (see this wrongly titled but good production ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hGzOVSFsJpU.html ) , get chekhov wrong, compare these two productions with following brilliant russian production. you will see what i mean. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YapV2y3h3sE.html

Just discovering Chekhov, and this production really breathes life into it.

Oh thank you for sharing this! I have always wanted to see it! Some brilliant actor's in this!

There is something extremely magnetic about Kim Stanley. Really outstanding cast. What an era for American acting!

Kim Stanley is magnificent.

I also have sought this forever; thank you so much! The role of Natasha might have been written for Shelley Winters, so perfectly does she embody it. And Geraldine Page's Olga is heartbreaking. Thank you for making this beautiful production available.

I can see many similar sparkling times when Sandy dennis plays in both three sisters and Who's afraid of Virginia Wolf：her diction、her crying.......so similar

This is such a great production!!

Absolutely brilliant! Reading the play, it seems incoherent, disjointed, confusing (and I've read a lot of Chekhov). But in the hands of truly great actors, the genius of the text comes vividly to life! An incredible experience, seeing these people create unforgettable characters leading seemingly real lives. Amazing.

Kim Stanley's finest acting was in A Cardinal ACT OF MERSEY

For some reason I keep imagining Peter Sellars as Kulygin.

Best version!!!

I don't get it why this looks like it was made in early 30s when it was done mid 60s.

I am so engrossed. Such believability.

Enable subtitles, please!!

Pity we don't have actors and actresses of this calibre any more.

Can anyone tell me what year this was made ? Thank you 🌹

wow, Kim stanley, and Geraldine Page together.

where did u find a copy? id ove to have a copy on dvd where can i get one

The three greatest American actresses - Kim, Gerry and Sandy. This is truly a gem for acting students.

Doin a monologue from this

WHEN WAS THIS FIRST SHOWN??? BRILLIANT....

Perhaps it was lost in translation or it's from female perspectives but hell if I understood the reasons for all their anguish and tortured minds!

Heard it was good, that’s why I’m here. Is it?

Is t j.g at Rob Loggia?

Reading the commentary below is, mostly, frightening. If you get all of your inferences of acting, through Hollywood and bad play productions, such as this, you will, even in reading the original Chekhov, not understand the play, nor, was an actor, be able to act him. Chekhov's words say one thing, but he wants you to "act", by not acting, the opposite. Oh my. It's not your fault. Most of you are not actors. If you are, it's a shame.