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Woman In A Dressing Gown [DVD] [1957]

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Williams, Melanie, 'Twilight women of 1950s British cinema' in: The British Cinema Book. British Film Institute, 2009.

call it) is clearly a filmed play, but still works on a cinematic level; in fact it was a TV play first, written by Ted Willis and inspired by the new natural realism emanating from American TV andone contemporary viewer who said 'It's done for dressing gowns what Psycho did for showers' although I wonder when that comment was made as Psycho was not for another three 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." Leslie Halliwell said: "Classic British TV play adequately filmed but now rather dated and irritating." [11] The screenplay was written by Ted Willis, based on his 1956 ITV Television Playhouse play of the same name. The producer was Frank Godwin. Of 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.

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 tooIn 1964 Burt Bacharach won the Grammy Award for his song "Wives and Lovers", the lyrics of which began: "Hey, little girl, comb your hair, fix your make-up. Soon he will open the door. Don't think because there's a ring on your finger, you needn't try any more".

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