Woman In A Dressing Gown [DVD] [1957]

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Nield, Anthony (2012). " 'Woman in a Dressing Gown' Review". The Digital Fix. Recent review on the occasion of the 2012 DVD release of a restored version of the film.

Quinlan, David (1984). British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959. London: B.T. Batsford Ltd. p.401. ISBN 0-7134-1874-5. Higson, Andrew (ed.); Ashby, Justine (ed.); Porter, Vincent (2000). British Cinema: Past and Present: "Outsiders in England: the films of the Associated British Picture Corporation, 1949-1958" . Routledge. p.162. ISBN 9780415220620. {{ cite book}}: |first1= has generic name ( help)

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Intensely claustrophobic, with an almost oppressive filmmaking dynamic, the film is a simmering tale of the impact of adultery on the psyche of three desperate characters in post-war London. As the eponymous Woman, hanging from a thread while the dishes pile up around her, Yvonne Mitchell won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 7th Berlin International Film Festival. Thumim, Janet. "The popular cash and culture in the postwar British cinema industry". Screen. Vol.32, no.3. p.259. The film was one of the most popular at the British box office in 1957. [3] According to Kinematograph Weekly the film was "in the money" at the British box office in 1957. [4] Husband Jim (Anthony Quayle) swerves into the arms of pretty young colleague Georgie (Sylvia Syms) but his request for a divorce wrenches Amy into a dark reflection of what her life has become, in what remains as moving a portrayal of repressed desires as you’ll see onscreen.

forth, but events conspire against her (her hair is ruined when she is caught in the most sudden downpour in film history; when she goes in a shop it is reasonably sunny, when she comes out less than with Trevor Howard. The moment passes, but at least Jimbo has put the situation 'out there', and the next day Amy decides to have a confrontation with the three of them, asking that Georgie

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husband Jim ( Anthony Quayle) and 'other woman' Georgie ( Sylvia Syms) as they struggle with their feelings for each other and their guilt about the hurt they However, Associated decided to end her contract, which devastated her and she disappeared from the public eye. She subsequently lived in a semi-detached house overlooking New Barnet station in north London, but by 1973 was described as "a deeply depressed, once beautiful woman, still haunted by a glamorous past". [5] She was found dead by her husband Michael Dalling in their New Barnet home on 28 February 1974. [6] At her inquest it was determined that she had died of a drug overdose and that she had "killed herself". [7] Filmography [ edit ] Film and television