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The Lady in the Van is a 2015 British [3] comedy-drama film directed by Nicholas Hytner, and starring Maggie Smith and Alex Jennings, based on the memoir of the same name created by Alan Bennett. It was written by Bennett, and it tells the (mostly [ 6 ] ) true story of his interactions with Mary Shepherd , an elderly woman who lived in a ...
The Lady is a 2011 British biographical film directed by Luc Besson, [6] starring Michelle Yeoh [7] as Aung San Suu Kyi and David Thewlis [8] as her late husband Michael Aris. [9] Yeoh called the film "a labour of love" but also confessed it had felt intimidating for her to play the Nobel laureate .
The former Convent of the Society of the Helpers of the Holy Souls on Gloucester Avenue where Fairchild was a novice in 1936, now the North Bridge House School.. Margaret Fairchild was born in 1911 in Hellingly in East Sussex, the daughter of Harriett (née Burgess; 1879–1963) and George Bryant Fairchild (1866–1944), a surveyor and sanitary inspector.
The Lady of Heaven is a 2021 British historical drama film written by the Twelver Shia cleric Yasser Al-Habib, the spiritual leader and founder of The Mahdi Servants Union as well as of Fadak TV. [4] Produced by Enlightened Kingdom, the film is the first movie on the life of the historical figure Fatima , the daughter of the Islamic prophet ...
The Lady Vanishes is a 1938 British mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave. [3] [4] Written by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder, based on the 1936 novel The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White, [3] the film is about an English tourist travelling by train in continental Europe who discovers that her elderly travelling companion seems to ...
Presenting Lily Mars is a 1943 American musical comedy film directed by Norman Taurog, produced by Joe Pasternak, starring Judy Garland and Van Heflin, and based on the 1933 novel by Booth Tarkington. The film is often cited as Garland's first film playing an adult role.
The Lady Gambles is a 1949 American film noir drama film directed by Michael Gordon and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Preston and Stephen McNally. Plot [ edit ]
The Van is a 1996 film, based on the novel The Van (the third in The Barrytown Trilogy) by Roddy Doyle. Like The Snapper (1993), it was directed by Stephen Frears. The first film of the trilogy, The Commitments (1991), was directed by Alan Parker. It was entered into the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. [2] The film stars Colm Meaney and Donal O'Kelly.