Woman In A Dressing Gown [DVD] [1957]

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gamely and plays their new jazz record, in a scene mildly reminiscent of that bit in Brief Encounter when that interfering busy-body neighbour of Celia Johnson's intrudes on her last moments Carole Lesley (27 May 1935 – 28 February 1974), was a British actress who had a short but significant career as a "blonde bombshell". [1] The suspense derives from the movie’s problem – will Jim (Anthony Quayle), Amy’s husband of 20 years, with whom she has a factory-worker son (Andrew Ray), stay with her or leave her for his young mistress, Georgie ( Sylvia Syms, right with Quayle)? I have recently become fascinated by the minutiae of certain aspects of film; spotting little-known actors who have become familiar to me for example. My father

common at the time - which have those drying stands or whatever it is they're called, where you dry clothes hanging from the ceiling; my Nan had one in her kitchen and I hated it as when it was too The screenplay was written by Ted Willis, based on his 1956 ITV Television Playhouse play of the same name. The producer was Frank Godwin. Andrew Ray) and 'the other woman' Georgie (Syliva Syms). Amy is a walking disaster area in terms of her role as a housewife; the flat is a mess, with endless clutter about the placeOf angry middle-aged housewives, there was but one: Amy Preston (Yvonne Mitchell) in the neo-realist Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957), which is habitually neglected in the kitchen-sink roll call. That will change with the re-release today and DVD release on 13 August of J. Lee Thompson’s suspenseful proto-feminist film, for which Mitchell won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at Berlin. It was actually the first kitchen-sink drama, and the one that defined the term. Britain's first ever kitchen-sink movie, Woman In A Dressing Gown, is re-released in cinemas this week. Front Row finds out why the film, starring Sylvia Syms and Anthony Quayle, has been neglected for the last 50 years, despite winning several prestigious awards.

Willis quietly introduces, almost in passing, the source of the couple’s pain during the three-way parley that resolves how the film will end. The marriage's fate hinges on the familiar contest between the value of love as devotion that endures suffering and the daily grind and the value of love as gratified desire. Williams, Melanie, 'Remembering the poor soul walking in the rain: Audience Responses to a Thwarted Makeover in Woman in a Dressing Gown' in Journal of British Cinema and Television, 10 (2013), pp.709–726. Woman in a Dressing Gown" has been given a superb DVD release by StudioCanal - a perfect, sharp and crystal clear image with excellent audio for the film itself, and some excellent extras including interviews with the producer and most fascinatingly Sylvia Syms, who shares her memories of making the film with us and her thoughts about her character and those of Jim (Anthony Quayle) and Amy (Yvonne Mitchell).Harper, Sue; Porter, Vincent (29 July 2003). British Cinema of the 1950s: The Decline of Deference. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198159346– via Google Books. suspect this is one of those films where one's viewpoint and reaction depends partly on the gender of the viewer and also (perhaps more so) on when the film is being viewed. Nearly 60 years on, and 14 seconds) and he's off. Later in the film Brian does something similar, saying that he has to go somewhere or he'll be late (so why don't you get up earlier, you'll have time S o in WIADG we find basically a four hander; Amy Preston (Yvonne Mitchell, right), her husband Jimbo Preston (Anthony Quayle), their teenage son Brian