Sunday, December 27, 2009

Historic Women in Film - Part IV

Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999) – Joan of Arc (Milla Jovovich, John Malkovich, Faye Dunaway, Dustin Hoffman)

Miss Potter (2006) - Beatrix Potter (Renée Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, Emily Watson, Barbara Flynn, Bill Paterson, Matyelok Gibbs, Lloyd Owen, Anton Lesser, David Bamber)

Mrs. Brown (1997) - Queen Victoria (Judi Dench, Billy Connolly, Antony Sher, Geoffrey Palmer, Richard Pasco, David Westhead)

Nora (1999) - Nora Barnacle (Ewan McGregor, Susan Lynch, Peter McDonald, Roberto Citran)

Norma Rae - Chrystal Lee Jordan (Sally Field)

Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Stanton & Anthony - Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony (see also the fictionalized "Iron-Jawed Angels)

Out of Africa (1985) - Karen Blixen (Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Klaus Maria Brandauer)

Pope Joan (1972) – Pope Joan (Liv Ullman)

Queen Christina (1933) – Christina, Queen of Sweden (Greta Grabo)

Queen Margot (1954) – Princess Margot de Valois (Jeanne Moreau)

Queen Margot (1994) – Princess Margot de Vlois (Isabelle Adjani as as Marguerite de Valois) [French]

Saint Joan (1957) – Joan of Arc (Jean Seberg, Richard Widmark)

Silkwood (1983) - Karen Silkwood (Meryl Streep)

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2001) - Sophie Scholl – The White Rose (Ju;ia Jentsch, Alexander Held, Fabian Hinrichs, Johanna Gastdorf, Andre Hennicke, Florian Stetter, Petra Kelling, Jorg Hube)[German]

Stealing Heaven (1988) – Aberlard & Heloise

The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) - Anne Frank (Millie Perkins as Anne, Joseph Schildkraut as Otto Frank, Gusti Huber as Edith Frank, and Shelley Winters as Petronella Van Dean)

The Diary of Anne Frank (1986) - Anne Frank (Katharine Schlesinger, Emrys James, Nigel Anthony)

The Devil’s Crown (1978) – Eleanor of Aquitaine & her Sons (Jane Lapotaire)

The Duchess (2008) - Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Charlotte Rampling, Dominic Cooper)

The Hours (2002) - Virginia Woolf (Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris, Toni Collette, Claire Danes, Jeff Daniels, Stephen Dillane, Allison Janney, John C. Reilly, Miranda Richardson)

The Josephine Baker Story (1991) - Josephine Baker (Lynn Whitfield, Rubén Blades, David Dukes, Craig T. Nelson)

The King's Whore (1990) [Alt: The King's Mistress] (La putain du roi) - Set in court of Piedmont of King Victor Amadeo (18th Cent) (Timothy Dalton & Valeria Golino)

The Lady and the Duke (Australia) (USA) - L'anglaise & le duc (France) (2001) - French Revolution (Lucy Russell as Grace Elliott)

The Lion in Winter (1968) - Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine (Katharine Hepburn as Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, Peter O’Toole as Henry II, Jane Merrow, John Castle, Timothy Dalton, Anthony Hopkins, Nigel Stock, Nigel Terry)

The Lion in Winter (2003) - Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine (Glenn Close as Eleanor, Patrick Stewart as Henry II, Andrew Howard, John Light, Rafe Spall, Julia Vysotsky, Clive Wood, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers)

The Miracle Worker (1962) - Helen Keller & Anne Sullivan (Patty Duke as Helen, Anne Bancroft as Anne, Victor Jory as Captain Arthur Keller, and Inga Swenson as Kate Keller)

The Miracle Worker (1979) - Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan (Patty Duke, Melissa Gilbert )

The Miracle Worker (2000) - Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan (Alison Elliott, Hallie Kate Eisenberg, Lucas Black, Kate Greenhouse, David Strathairn)

The Other Boleyn Girl (2003) – Mary Boleyn (Jodhi May as Anne Boleyn, Natascha McElhone as Mary, Steven Mackintosh as George, Jared Harris as Henry VIII, and Philip Glenister as Stafford)

The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) – Mary Boleyn (Scarlett Johansson as Mary, Natalie Portman as Anne, and Eric Bana as Henry VIII)

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