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I Capture the Castle was Dodie Smith's first novel, written during the Second World War when she and her husband Alec Beesley, a conscientious objector, moved from their native England to California. Smith was already an established playwright and later became famous for writing the children's classic The Hundred and One Dalmatians .
I Capture the Castle is a 2003 British romantic comedy film directed by Tim Fywell. It is based on the 1948 novel of the same name by Dodie Smith, with the screenplay written by Heidi Thomas. The film was released in the UK on 9 May 2003. Romola Garai played the lead role of Cassandra Mortmain alongside Bill Nighy, Rose Byrne and Tara Fitzgerald.
Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith (3 May 1896 – 24 November 1990) was an English novelist and playwright.She is best known for writing I Capture the Castle (1948) and the children's novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians (1956).
Romola Sadie Garai (/ ˈ r ɒ m ə l ə ˈ ɡ ær i / ROM-ə-lə GARR-ee; [1] born 6 August 1982) is a Hong Kong-born British actress and film director. Known for her extensive work on stage and screen, she often acts in period films.
Sophie Stuckey was born in London, in the borough of Camden, on 1 March 1991.Her first role as an actress was in 2002, at the age of 11, in the film Close Your Eyes, [2] while the following year she was in I Capture the Castle, film adaptation of Dodie Smith's book of the same name.
Her screen adaptations include feature film I Capture the Castle (2003) [1] and the screenplay for a BBC television adaptation of Madame Bovary (2000). In 2007 she was the creator, writer and executive producer of BBC period drama Lilies.
In 1952, she appeared with Roger Moore in I Capture the Castle at the Aldwych Theatre. The production won Roger Moore an MGM contract. When Moore left for Hollywood, Bill Travers assumed Moore's role. In 1959, she worked with her future husband, Gordon Gostelow in Glimpse of the Sea by Willis Hall at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith.
In 2003 he made his first feature debut with I Capture the Castle, an adaptation of the novel of the same title by Dodie Smith. [2] Fywell directed his first Hollywood feature, Ice Princess starring Michelle Trachtenberg, in 2005. [3] Fywell started his career in British television, directing episodes of Brookside. [4]