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Brief Encounter is a 1945 British romantic drama film directed by David Lean from a screenplay by Noël Coward, based on his 1936 one-act play Still Life.The film stars Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard in lead roles, alongside Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey, Cyril Raymond, Everley Gregg and Margaret Barton in supporting roles.
Brief Encounter is a 1974 British-Italian television film starring Richard Burton and Sophia Loren, adapted from the play Still Life by Noël Coward. Plot
Brief Encounters is a British comedy-drama series created by Oriane Messina and Fay Rusling.The series is loosely based on Gold Group International CEO Jacqueline Gold's 1995 memoir, Good Vibrations, [1] and details the beginning of the Ann Summers retailer company, through four women who see the potential of finding happiness and fulfillment by selling lingerie and sex toys to women in the ...
Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith (29 September 1913 – 7 January 1988) [2] was an English stage and screen actor. After varied work in the theatre, he achieved leading man star status in the film Brief Encounter (1945), followed by The Third Man (1949), portraying what BFI Screenonline called “a new kind of male lead in British films: steady, middle-class, reassuring…. but also capable of ...
Dame Celia Elizabeth Johnson (18 December 1908 – 26 April 1982) was an English actress, whose career included stage, television and film. [1] She is especially known for her roles in the films In Which We Serve (1942), This Happy Breed (1944), Brief Encounter (1945) and The Captain's Paradise (1953).
The 1945 film version was made into an opera, Brief Encounter, composed by André Previn to a libretto by John Caird, commissioned by the Houston Grand Opera and premiered in 2009. It starred Elizabeth Futral as Laura and Nathan Gunn as Alec. [43] A recording was issued on the Deutsche Grammophon label. [44]
Elevated by its consistent visual inventiveness, Chinese writer-director Jianjie Lin’s suspenseful drama “Brief History of a Family” could appear, at first glance, as a clear-cut case of a ...
Barton lives in Dorset, where she runs a tea room, and still receives many letters relating to Brief Encounter. [2] On 30 August 2018, aged 92, she married Rob Cave, aged 91, in Wimborne . Their combined age of 183 was believed to make them Britain's oldest newlyweds.