What film starting Frances Barber was based on a memoir by Peter Turner?
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Frances Barber Frances Barber (born Frances J Brookes, 13 May 1957) is an English actress. She received Olivier Award nominations for her work in the plays, "Camille" (1985), and "Uncle Vanya" (1997). Her numerous television credits include "The Street" (2009), "Doctor Who" (2011), and "Silk" (2012–14), while her film appearances include "Prick Up Your Ears" (1987), "Sammy and Rosie Get Laid" (1987), "Soft Top Hard Shoulder" (1992), and the upcoming, "Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool" (2017).
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Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool is a 2017 American-British film directed by Paul McGuigan and starring Annette Bening and Jamie Bell. It is based on the memoir of the same name by Peter Turner.
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'Tis Pity She's a Whore (film) 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (Italian: Addio fratello crudele , also known as "Peccato che sia una puttana") is a 1971 Italian romance-drama film directed by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi. It is based on the tragedy with the same name written by John Ford.
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A Feather in Her Hat A Feather in Her Hat is a 1935 melodrama film starring Pauline Lord as a working-class woman with ambitions for her son. It is based on the novel of the same name by I. A. R. Wylie.
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Guilt Is My Shadow Guilt Is My Shadow is a 1950 British drama film directed by Roy Kellino and starring Elizabeth Sellars, Patrick Holt and Peter Reynolds. In the film, a woman is haunted by her conscience after she kills a man and hides the body. It is based on the novel "You're Best Alone" by Norah Lofts.
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Millie Perkins Millie Perkins (born May 12, 1938) is an American film and television actress best known for her debut film role as Anne Frank in "The Diary of Anne Frank" (1959).
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Amanda Foreman (historian) Amanda Lucy Foreman (born 1968) is a British/American biographer and historian. Her books include "Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire", "A World on Fire", and "The World Made by Women". She also wrote and starred in a four-part documentary regarding the role of women in society, entitled "The Ascent of Woman".
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The Agitator The Agitator is a 1945 British drama film directed by John Harlow and starring William Hartnell, Mary Morris and John Laurie. Its plot follows a young socialist who is forced to question his beliefs when he unexpectedly inherits a large firm. It was based on the novel "Peter Pettenger" by William Riley.
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My Life So Far My Life So Far is a 1999 film about a year in the life of a ten-year-old Scottish boy. It was directed by Hugh Hudson, with screenplay by Simon Donald. The film is set in 1927 and is based on the memoirs of Denis Forman, a British television executive.
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Hayley Mills Hayley Catherine Rose Vivien Mills (born 18 April 1946) is an English actress. The daughter of Sir John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell, and younger sister of actress Juliet Mills, Mills began her acting career as a child and was hailed as a promising newcomer, winning the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer for her performance in the British crime drama film "Tiger Bay" (1959), the Academy Juvenile Award for Disney's "Pollyanna" (1960) and Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress in 1961. During her early career, she appeared in six films for Walt Disney, including her dual role as twins Susan and Sharon in the Disney film "The Parent Trap" (1961). Her performance in "Whistle Down the Wind" (a 1961 adaptation of the novel written by her mother) saw Mills nominated for BAFTA Award for Best British Actress.
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Cari Beauchamp Cari Beauchamp (born 1951, Berkeley, California) is an American author, historian, journalist, and documentary filmmaker. She authored the biography "Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood" which was subsequently made into a documentary film. She is currently the resident scholar of the "Mary Pickford Foundation".
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Frances Dorothy Cartwright Frances Dorothy Cartwright (1780–1863) was an English poet and biographer.
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Anna and the King of Siam (film) Anna and the King of Siam is a 1946 drama film directed by John Cromwell. An adaptation of the 1944 novel of the same name by Margaret Landon, it was based on the fictionalized diaries of Anna Leonowens, an Anglo-Indian woman who claimed to be British and became governess in the Royal Court of Siam (now modern Thailand) during the 1860s. Darryl F. Zanuck read Landon's book in galleys and immediately bought the film rights.
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Manners of Dying Manners of Dying is a 2004 Canadian drama film based on the short story of the same name (1993) by Yann Martel, winner of the Man Booker Prize for his book, "The Life of Pi".
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My Name Is Julia Ross My Name Is Julia Ross is a 1945 film noir, having also some elements of Gothic fiction, directed by Joseph H. Lewis and based on the novel "The Woman in Red" by Anthony Gilbert. This drama is the first in a series of films noir directed by Lewis and features Nina Foch, Dame May Whitty and George Macready.
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The Pianist (1998 film) The Pianist ("El Pianista") was a 1998 Catalan-language film directed by Mario Gas, and based on a novel by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. It tells the story of two musicians, played in their old age by Serge Reggiani and Laurent Terzieff and in their youth by Pere Ponce and Jordi Mollà, who were friends at the onset of the Spanish Civil War. They meet 60 years later, and we are presented with the strikingly different paths which they took in the circumstances of the war.
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I Am Not Your Negro I Am Not Your Negro is a 2016 documentary film directed by Raoul Peck, based on James Baldwin's unfinished manuscript, "Remember This House". Narrated by actor Samuel L. Jackson, the film explores the history of racism in the United States through Baldwin's reminiscences of civil rights leaders Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr, as well as his personal observations of American history. It was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 89th Academy Awards.
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More Fool Me (memoir) More Fool Me: A Memoir is the 2014 autobiography of Stephen Fry. The book is a continuation from the end of his 1997 publication, "Moab Is My Washpot: An Autobiography", and the 2010 "The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography". It contains an overview of these previous two volumes, and an account of Fry's later cocaine addiction, chiefly covering the years 1986–93. Other major topics include Fry's writing of "The Hippopotamus", his work on the TV series "A Bit of Fry & Laurie", "Jeeves and Wooster" and "Blackadder Goes Forth"; the radio series "Saturday Night Fry"; and the films "Peter's Friends" and "Stalag Luft". The book is Fry's tenth, and his third volume of autobiography.
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Finding Neverland (film) Finding Neverland, a British-American historical fantasy drama film released in 2004, is about playwright J. M. Barrie and his relationship with a family who inspired him to create "Peter Pan", directed by Marc Forster. The screenplay by David Magee is based on the play "The Man Who Was Peter Pan" by Allan Knee.
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Paris Underground (book) Paris Underground is a memoir written by Etta Shiber in 1943. The book was later made into a film with the same name in 1945.
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My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House is a 1961 autobiographical novel by Lillian Rogers Parks (with Frances Spatz Leighton). The memoir was based on Parks' recollections of thirty years (1931-1961) as a seamstress in the White House (the administrations of Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower) and on childhood memories of her mother's 30 years of domestic service (Margaret 'Maggie' Rogers was head housemaid at the White House from 1909-1939, spanning the administrations of Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, and Roosevelt).
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The Night of the Generals The Night of the Generals is a 1967 Franco-British-American Second World War crime mystery film directed by Anatole Litvak and produced by Sam Spiegel. It stars Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay, Donald Pleasence, Joanna Pettet and Philippe Noiret. The screenplay by Joseph Kessel and Paul Dehn was loosely based on the beginning of the novel of the same name by German author Hans Hellmut Kirst. The writing credits also include the line "based on an incident written by James Hadley Chase". Gore Vidal is said to have contributed to the screenplay, but was not credited.