A Picture of Katherine Mansfield

A Picture of Katherine Mansfield
GenreDrama
Based onThe life and short stories of Katherine Mansfield
Written byRobin Chapman
Directed byAlan Cooke
Starring
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodes6
Production
ProducerRosemary Hill
Running time50 minutes
Production companyBBC
Original release
NetworkBBC Two
Release1 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

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.


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