The Millionairess
starring: Maggie Smith, Peter Barkworth, Charles Gray, Donald Pickering, Avril Angers
directed by: William Slater
directed by: William Slater
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0794051253828
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: BBC Warner
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: BBC Warner
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 16, 2006
Running Time: 100 minutes
Sales Rank: 16198
Studio: BBC Warner
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Product Description:
Epifania (Maggie Smith) is glamorous clever...and also the richest woman in the world. After yet another row with her spendthrift husband Epifania meets an intriguing Egyptian doctor (Tom Baker). But she faces the challenge her money-mad father imposed on her before his death: She can only consider for marriage a man who can convert 150 pounds into 50000 pounds within six months. Coincidentally the good doctor has a similar challenge from his mother and can only consider for a wife a woman who can make her own living for six months with only 35 pence to start. Will Epifania be able to prove her profitability? And is the good doctor even interested in the challenge of a woman used to getting whatever she wants?Running Time: 115 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 794051253828 Manufacturer No: E2538
Amazon.com:
Though Bernard Shaw's The Millionairess may rank among his lesser works, it is given a top-drawer staging in this 1972 BBC production. Maggie Smith (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, California Suite) is priceless as Epifania Ognisanti di Parerga Fitzfassenden, a woman every bit as impossible as her name. Epifania, 'a woman brought up on seven figures' is, as her amused lawyer observes, 'a comic figure in her misery.' Her feckless husband has taken up with a more affectionate younger woman. Epifania's own 'Sunday wife' (Charles Gray from Rocky Horror Picture Show) is an equally worthless chap. But she meets her match in a principled and idealistic English doctor (Tom Baker of Dr. Who fame) who challenges her to transform 35 shillings into her own fortune. The play's farcical first act is best, with the assorted couples and companions descending on the lawyer's office. Things bog down a bit with the introduction of the good doctor, but to watch the incomparable Smith tackle this most juicy of roles as 'the most interesting woman in England,' for whom money means power, security, and freedom, is 'legitimate bliss.' --Donald Liebenson
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- Excellent productionThis is an excellent production. If you are at all interested in this, I recommend getting "The Shaw ... Read More
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- The Millionairess-less is better !"The Milionairess" is a stage play that did not translate well onto the silver screen. The filming was ... Read More
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- Poorly written playI order two copies of The Millionairess - one for myself and one for a gift. After watching it, I was too ... Read More
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- Maggie steals the showThe Millionairess has always been one of my favorite plays by Bernard Shaw (along with Pygmalion and Caesar ... Read More
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- The Millionairess; incredible beyond wordsShaw's writing with Maggie Smith's performance makes for a most incredible play. England, oh how we love England!
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