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Betsey Trotwood is David Copperfield's great-aunt on his father's side, and has an unfavourable view of men and boys, having been ill-used and abandoned by a worthless husband earlier in life.
The adaptation follows the story of David Copperfield as he grows up under the care of the cruel Murdstones after the death of his mother, escapes to the care of his aunt Betsey Trotwood and later travels to London where he meets the gentle Micawbers and the scheming Uriah Heep, and falls in love with and marries the spoilt Dora Spenlow.
David Copperfield is a BBC television serial starring Ian McKellen in the title role of the adaptation of Charles Dickens's 1850 novel [1] that began airing in January 1966. [2] It also featured Tina Packer as Dora [ 3 ] Flora Robson as Betsey Trotwood , [ 4 ] Gordon Gostelow as Barkis, [ 5 ] and Christopher Guard as young David. [ 6 ]
Only one episode to feature him (episode 3, 'A Long Journey') is known to exist. In the 1969 version, he is played by James Donald. In this version, Murdstone does not bother to search for David after he leaves for Dover, thus his argument with Betsey Trotwood is omitted. In the 1974 BBC TV series he is played by Gareth Thomas.
David Copperfield is born in Blunderstone, Suffolk, three months after the death of his father, who was also called David Copperfield. On the night of David's birth, his great-aunt, Betsey Trotwood, arrives at the "Rookery" — the Copperfield family home — and eagerly anticipates the birth of a baby girl. She insists that Clara Copperfield's ...
1956: David Copperfield, a 13-part TV serial shown on BBC. No recordings are known to exist. [212] 1966: David Copperfield, a 13-part TV serial. Only four of the thirteen episodes are known to exist. [213] 1969: David Copperfield, a TV film directed by Delbert Mann; 1974: David Copperfield, a 6-part TV serial directed by Joan Craft
Agnes Wickfield is a character of David Copperfield, the 1850 novel by Charles Dickens. She is a friend and confidante of David (the narrator and protagonist of this semi-autobiography) since his childhood and at the end of the novel, his second wife. In Dickens' language, she is the "real heroine" of the novel.
She played wealthy, domineering Aunt March in the 1933 version of Little Women. Oliver (center) in lobby card for David Copperfield (1935) John Barrymore, Oliver and Leslie Howard in Romeo and Juliet (1936) Oliver's most popular star vehicles were mystery-comedies, starring as spinster sleuth Hildegarde Withers from the popular Stuart Palmer ...