Woman In A Dressing Gown [DVD] [1957]

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The Prestons are an apparently happy household made up of wife Amy, husband Jim and teenage son Brian, living in a cramped flat on a London housing estate. On a Sunday morning Amy lovingly prepares Jim's cooked breakfast but he announces he has to work. It and the films that followed were, as Richard Armstrong notes, "fed by the 'Angry Young Men' of 1950s theatre, the

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] Another London is a new exhibition at Tate Britain which reveals the capital as seen through the eyes of photographers from all over the world, from 1930 until 1980. The images chart the city's transformation, from bombed- out ruin to punk playground. Craig Taylor, author of Londoners, considers the capital's many changes. Though Thompson is best known for masculine genre films like The Guns of Navarone (1961) and Cape Fear (1962), he had previously touched on a woman’s entrapment in Yield to the Night (1956), in which Diana Dors played an incarcerated murderess, partially inspired by Ruth Ellis, on the eve of her hanging.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) 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,

suppose) in her flat, she is putting pressure on him to tell Amy that he is going to leave her. That evening Jimbo tries half-heartedly, but the moment never arises, and on the Monday morning

Yvonne Mitchell is remarkable in the title role of Amy, a hapless, affectionate lower-middle-class housewife sent slightly stir-crazy by loneliness and (though it’s never spelled out) depression. Her husband Jim (Anthony Quayle) is a solid sort who loves his wife in his own way – but that hasn’t stopped him wandering into the arms of his secretary (Sylvia Sims). 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.

Carole Lesley (27 May 1935 – 28 February 1974), was a British actress who had a short but significant career as a "blonde bombshell". [1] would have been 44 at the time of the film, Syms 23, with Mitchell 42), who is assured, very presentable (always immaculate in her appearance and clothes) and what we would now call a 'trophy 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 Williams, Melanie, ‘Housewives’ choice’: Woman in a Dressing Gown' in British Cinema of the Fifties. MUP, 2003.Williams, Melanie, 'Twilight women of 1950s British cinema' in: The British Cinema Book. British Film Institute, 2009. 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.

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 Devoted housewife Amy is distraught when her husband, Jim, announces he is leaving her for another woman. Show full synopsisI 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 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. cautionary tale ie see what happens if you slouch about in a shabby old dressing gown until all hours and don't have the dinner ready when he comes home? I particuarly liked the comment from I think the ending is quite a cop out, with no real reason for Jimbo to change his mind over Georgie; having got the worst of it over he then seems to just give in Ahead of its time in some respects, particularly in its placing of a dysfunctional woman at the centre of the drama, Woman in a Dressing Gown at least thematically foreshadows some of the emotional and social concerns of the 'kitchen sink' dramas of the early 1960s even if its stylistic qualities and performance modes bear little in common with the naturalism of such films. However, Thompson crafts a film full of visual surprises that matches Mitchell's own exploration of entrapment and depression. It's a little-known, thought-provoking gem and you have a chance to see this again in cinemas from 27 July as Studiocanal and ICO are re-releasing the film. Here's a full list of play dates.