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A Picture of Katherine Mansfield

British TV series or programme


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).

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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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