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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.
The two lead roles were cast with "wild disregard for suitability," according to Brian McFarlane, who has described the film as "a total disaster." [2] Originally intended to have a television screening in the United States followed by a cinema release in the rest of the world, its poor reception in New York led to the international plans being abandoned.
James C. Mitchell was a prominent citizen in the early days of Bellevue, Iowa.He was, in fact, instrumental in the factional tensions that led up to the final confrontation of what is commonly known as the Bellevue War in 1840.
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).
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. [4]
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]
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In 2016, Rundle starred in the ITV's six-part series titled Brief Encounters, [23] which is loosely based on Gold Group International CEO, Jacqueline Gold's 1995 memoir, Good Vibrations. [24] Asked about her opinion of her character in the series (set in the 1980s) during an interview with i , Rundle explained that she would be restless and ...