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Edinburgh’s Festival

Date released

27 Aug 1953

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1264A

NoS ID

018714

Story no

7 / 7

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Edinburgh Festival. DESCRIPTION: Year by year, the Festival has grown in popularity. One of the items on the programme is a production of Hamlet, which stars Claire Bloom, Richard...

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Look Back in Anger (1958)

Director

Tony Richardson

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £15.99

An angry young man fights against life and his wife in this 1958 film adaptation by Nigel Kneale of the celebrated anti-establishment drama by John Osborne. Directed by Tony Richardson and starring Richard...

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Shakespeare’s Women and Claire Bloom (1998 Television, Video)

Director

Phillip Schopper

Producer

Julian Schlossberg; Seymour Wishman

Documentary. The career of British actress Claire Bloom, paying particular attention to her playing of Shakespearean heroines. ‘Talking head’ delivery is interspersed with excerpts from both film and...

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Princess Margaret at Film Premiere

Date released

20 Oct 1952

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1220

NoS ID

018137

Story no

5 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Limelight. Princess Margaret at Film Premiere. DESCRIPTION: The Charlie Chaplin film premiere drew many thousands to Leicester Square. Princess Margaret was there, and she was greeted...

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Venus and Adonis: A Lover’s Complaint (1962 Audio)

aka: Lover’s Complaint, A

Series

Caedmon Literary

Sound recording. Venus and Adonis read by Max Adrian and A Lover’s Complaint read by Claire Bloom.

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British Legends of Stage and Screen (2012)

Subject

Drama; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 413 minutes), £13.25

This Sky Arts TV documentary series features interviews with some of Britain’s finest post-war actors, including Sir Derek Jacobi, Claire Bloom, Sir Michael Gambon, Dame Diana Rigg, Sir Christopher Lee,...

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Not Mine Own Fears, Nor the Prophetic Soul (1984 Television, Video)

Series

Sonnets of Shakespeare

Sonnet 107 read in costume by Claire Bloom, followed by a discussion of the sonnet by Sir Roy Strong. The sonnet is then performed again in light of the commentary.

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Cannes Film Festival

Date released

30 Apr 1956

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1404

NoS ID

020899

Story no

2 / 7

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Cannes Film Festival. DESCRIPTION: Sunshine at Cannes, and all the joys of a Film Festival. British actors and actresses, figure prominently at the Festival. The production chosen to...

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Oedipus the King 1 (1987 Video)

Subject

Classical studies; Drama

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS (NTSC). col. 120 min.

A performance of Sophocles’ most famous tragedy, setting the play in the past but not the distant past.

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Shadowlands (1985 Video)

Director

Norman Stone

Producer

David M Thompson

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min.

A biographical drama about the theologican and writer C S Lewis, whos faith was tested to breaking point when his wife Joy suffered and died of cancer shortly after their marriage.

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