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Title: Woman In A Dressing Gown


Date: 1957
Type: Drama
Rating: 4 Stars 4/5
Colour: Black and White
Director: J Lee Thompson
Producer:

Comment
A middle aged man (Anthony Quayle) is bored with his life and his disorganised and depressed wife (Yvonne Mitchell) and so starts an affair with his younger attractive secretary (Sylvia Syms) and ends up having to choose between his family and his lover. This is possibly the first of the British "kitchen sink dramas" that heralded realistic working class drama with all its problems. The real star of the film is Yvonne Mitchell as the woman whose world is falling apart around her but loves her family even if she cannot show it or support them.

Actors

Yvonne MitchellYvonne Mitchell
Anthony QuayleAnthony Quayle
Sylvia SymsSylvia Syms
Andrew Ray
Carole LesleyCarole Lesley

Oscars

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