A Picture of Katherine Mansfield

British TV series or programme
  • Vanessa Redgrave
  • Jeremy Brett
  • Annette Crosbie
  • Phyllida Law
  • Bruce Purchase
Country of originUnited KingdomOriginal languageEnglishNo. of episodes6ProductionProducerRosemary HillRunning time50 minutesProduction companyBBCOriginal releaseNetworkBBC TwoRelease1 May (1973-05-01) –
5 June 1973 (1973-06-05)

A Picture of Katherine Mansfield is a 1973 BBC television drama series starring Vanessa Redgrave as writer Katherine Mansfield, Jeremy Brett as her second husband John Middleton Murry, and Annette Crosbie as her life-long friend Ida Baker, known as L.M. The series consists of six fifty-minute parts each including episodes of Mansfield's life interwoven with adaptations of her short stories,[1][2] dramatized by English novelist, playwright, and screenwriter Robin Chapman (1933–2020).

Cast

  • Vanessa Redgrave as Katherine Mansfield
  • Jeremy Brett as John Middleton Murry
  • Lyndon Hughes as Josie
  • Annette Crosbie as L.M.
  • Phyllida Law as Mother
  • Bruce Purchase as Father
  • Geoffrey Burridge as Henry

Short Story Adaptations

The Mansfield short story adaptations in each of the six episodes in the series each have their own cast, and are as follows:

  • 1 'Psychology' and 'The Garden Party'
  • 2 'Germans at Meat' and 'Something Childish but Very Natural'
  • 3 'Je ne parle pas français' and 'Sun and Moon'
  • 4 'The Aloe' and 'The Man Without a Temperament'
  • 5 'Bliss' and 'The Daughters of the Late Colonel'
  • 6 'At the Bay' and 'Prelude'

References

  1. ^ Meyers, Jeffrey (1978). Katherine Mansfield: A Biography. H. Hamilton.
  2. ^ Baskin, Ellen (1996). Serials on British Television, 1950-1994. Scolar Press.

External links

  • A Picture of Katherine Mansfield at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
  • A Picture of Katherine Mansfield[dead link] at British Film Institute


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