Today’s movie is a period drama with a scene that happens on May 21. Watch it tonight and enjoy.
THE DUCHESS
Lively Georgiana Spencer is wed to (apparently) cold fish and outrageously wealthy William Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire. She doesn’t like it when he ignores her and has mistresses. He even has her raise his bastard daughter. She gets pregnant but has a daughter. Six years later she befriends Elizabeth “Bess” Foster, who is beaten by her husband and denied access to her children. The Duke takes Bess as his mistress and gets her children back for her. The Duke refuses to get a divorce and Georgiana has to agree otherwise she won’t ever see her children again. Georgiana has an affair with Charles Grey and proposes a deal that both of them ignore the other’s indiscretions, but the Duke refuses and rapes Georgiana. Nine months later she has a son on May 21, 1790. [1:07:20 to 1:07:39] She resumes her affair with Charles Grey, even after threats from her husband. She gets pregnant with Charles Grey’s child and is sent away to have it. Bess volunteers to go with her. The child is born and handed over to Grey’s family.
The Duchess by Amanda Foreman (Random House, New York, 1998) at page 118 gives the date of her son’s birth.
Producers - Gabrielle Tana and Michael Kuhn
Director - Saul Dibb
Screenplay - Jeffrey Hatcher, Anders Thomas Jensen and Saul Dibb
Awards - The film won the Oscar for Best Costume Design. It was also nominated for the Best Art Direction Oscar at the 81st Academy Awards
Runtime – 1 hour 50 minutes
Released - September 5, 2008
Starring -
Keira Knightley as Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Ralph Fiennes as William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire
Hayley Atwell as Lady Elizabeth 'Bess' Foster
Charlotte Rampling as Countess Spencer
Dominic Cooper as Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey
Aidan McArdle as Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Simon McBurney as Charles James Fox
Sebastian Applewhite as Agustas
Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2015.
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