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Bright Young Things is a 2003 British drama film written and directed by Stephen Fry. The screenplay, based on the 1930 novel Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh , provides satirical social commentary about the Bright Young People —young and carefree London aristocrats and bohemians—as well as society in general, in the interwar era .
Richard Plunket Greene, Olivia Plunket Greene, David Plunket Greene, Terence Greenidge, Elizabeth Frances Russell, and Evelyn Waugh.. The Bright Young Things, or Bright Young People, [1] [2] was a term given by the tabloid press to a group of Bohemian young aristocrats and socialites in London during the Roaring Twenties. [3]
Stephen James Napier Tennant (21 April 1906 – 28 February 1987) was a British socialite known for his decadent, eccentric lifestyle. [1] [2] He was a central member of the socialite group referred to as "Bright Young Things" by the tabloid press of the time.
At Queen's Gate she met Lady Eleanor Smith and Alannah Harper and together they became early members of what the British press would call the "Bright Young Things". [3] With her sister Teresa she tried to spend the night in Madam Tussaud's chamber of horrors. They removed the wax models of the "Princes in the Tower" to make themselves a bed and ...
Olivia Madeline Grace Mary Wyndham [1] (30 November 1897 – 1967 [2]) was a British society photographer and a member of the 1920s socialite group known as the bright young things.
Fenella Woolgar [1] (born 4 August 1969) is an English film, theatre, television and radio actress. She is known for her roles in films including Bright Young Things, Swallows and Amazons and Victoria and Abdul and for TV shows including Doctor Who, as crime novelist Agatha Christie, Inside Number 9, Call the Midwife and The Buccaneers.
Charles Randolph Mark Ogilvie-Grant (15 March 1905 – 13 February 1969) was a British diplomat and a botanist [1] and one of the earliest members of the Bright Young Things. Despite his earliest frivolous past, he became a hero during the 1940–1941 Greek campaign .
Lady Lettice Lygon (16 June 1906 – 18 July 1973) was an English socialite and aristocrat who was one of the Bright Young Things. Early life Lady ...