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The Duchess is a 2008 historical drama film directed by Saul Dibb, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jeffrey Hatcher and Anders Thomas Jensen, based on the 1998 book Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman, about the late 18th-century English aristocrat Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire.
When ten girls are allowed to go home for Thanksgiving under the promise of returning by eleven P.M., Frankie and "The Duchess", having lost the power and privilege they enjoyed under the departed Matron Brackett, arrange to have Betty kidnapped so she can not return at the appointed time.
The Duchess is a British comedy-drama television series created by and starring Katherine Ryan. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It premiered on Netflix on 11 September 2020. On 29 April 2021, the series was cancelled after one series.
Duchess is a 2024 British crime movie directed by Neil Marshall. It is a revenge action thriller, featuring a female protagonist portrayed by Charlotte Kirk . The film received both a limited box office release, and generally poor critical reception.
It details the investigations into the death of a young, ambitious maid, surrounded by a family which has reasons to want her gone – or dead. The title is taken from a passage from John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi: "Cover her face. Mine eyes dazzle; she died young," which is quoted by one of the characters in the novel.
The Duchess of Duke Street is a BBC television drama series set in London between 1900 and 1925. It was created by John Hawkesworth , previously the producer of the ITV period drama Upstairs, Downstairs . [ 1 ]
The painter is played by two actors, as a young and an old man. Other characters include the painter's muse, the Duchess of Alba. Some people have assumed that Goya and the Duchess were lovers, [1] and the film follows this interpretation.
The Duchess and the Jeweller" (1938) is a short story by Virginia Woolf. Woolf, being an advocate of addressing the "stream of consciousness," shows the thoughts and actions of a greedy jeweller; Woolf makes a thematic point that corrupt people do corrupt actions for purely selfish motives (and often without regret).