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Woman In A Dressing Gown [DVD] [1957]

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mixes the intellectual and the emotional very well...it's proper media criticism" 9/10 - The Medium Is Not Enough She was born Maureen Rippingale in Chelmsford, Essex, but ran away from home at the age of 16, "aiming to become a star". [2]

The performances of the three key actors are exceptional. Yvonne Mitchell is the disorganised housewife, the woman in a dressing gown; Anthony Quayle is the errant husband, trapped in a prison of his own making; and Sylvia Sims is the beautiful and composed mistress, determined to have her lover all to herself. All secure our sympathies and understanding in their own way. This is the film's success, for we find ourselves caring about each of the characters, despite the hurt they inflict unwillingly but inevitably upon each other. Frank Collins has produced a book that is fiercely idiosyncratic, displays a wide-ranging intellect the size of a planet, but which is also endearingly open and inclusive in its desire to share its expansive knowledge..." 4/5 - Horrorview.com The song served as a warning to America's housewives not to let themselves go, or some young girl at the office was bound to steal their man. These sentiments are echoed in a British film that pre-dated that song by seven years - Woman in a Dressing Gown - which won a slew of prizes in the 1957 Berlin Film Festival.only that she is the disruptive agent as my old mate Vladimir Propp might say. For Jimbo the attraction is obvious; a beautiful woman, 20 years younger (for once the casting is right; Qualyle Syms has complained that the only roles for older women are mother-in-law types or gaga old ladies (which she tends to get). Just as film ignored the working classes in the 50s, she believes the industry is now neglecting a huge cohort of interesting older women. She knows they are out there because she keeps meeting them. "Half the charities in this country would collapse without women like me – they man the shops, they're on charity councils. For Christ's sake, it's not the men who are doing it. They might get the posh jobs but if you want work done, you go to a woman." And she doesn't mean "quaint" do-gooders. "I don't know what the word do-gooder means. It's crap. If you're doing good, you're doing good."

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Louis Nowra is an acclaimed Australian dramatist, who has written two new plays for BBC Radio 4. He tells Kirsty how a serious head-injury, and being the son of an infamous murderess, have shaped his writing - and why he avoids arty types, preferring instead to have a beer with the labourers in his local bar. of it, or hardly anyway. Amy prepares bacon and eggs (I think), burnt toast, and an overfilled cup of tea, but I think Jimbo sits down for about 2 minutes (just counted actually, it's 1 minute 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, wife'. What we are less sure of is whether this is the right move for Georgie - would she really go for a man like Jimbo, 20 years her senior, ignoring all the men her own age, without The film is remarkable for its combustible atmosphere, centring around Mitchell’s performance as Amy Preston, the woman beset by the dowdiness she possesses in her husband’s eyes.

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