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Georgy Girl (other)
'' Georgy Girl'' is a 1966 British film based on a novel by Margaret Forster. Georgy Girl or Georgie Girl may also refer to: * "Georgy Girl" (song), the title song from the 1966 film, performed by The Seekers *''Georgy Girl'', a 1965 novel by Margaret Forster * ''Georgy Girl'' (musical), a 2015 jukebox musical about The Seekers *''Georgie Girl'', a 2001 New Zealand film directed by Annie Goldson and Peter Wells See also * ''Georgy'' (musical), a 1970 Broadway show based on the novel and film ''Georgy Girl'' {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgy Girl
''Georgy Girl'' is a 1966 British romantic comedy-drama, starring Lynn Redgrave in the titular role, with Charlotte Rampling, Alan Bates, and James Mason. Directed by Silvio Narizzano, the film was based on the 1965 novel by Margaret Forster. The plot follows the story of a virginal young woman in 1960s Swinging London who is faced with a dilemma when she is pursued by her father's older employer and the young lover of her promiscuous, pregnant flatmate. Plot The opening credits show the title character walking through the streets of London and being tempted into a hairdressers where she has her hair set in a far more contemporary style. She immediately changes her mind, and runs through the streets until she reaches a public lavatory. Once there, she submerges her hair in a sink-full of water, happy to return to her previously unkempt hairstyle. Georgina ("Georgy") Parkin (Lynn Redgrave) is a 22-year-old Londoner who has considerable musical talent, is well-educated, and ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgy Girl (song)
"Georgy Girl" is a song by the Australian pop/folk music group The Seekers. It was used as the title song for the 1966 film of the same title. Tom Springfield, who had written "I'll Never Find Another You", composed the music and Jim Dale supplied the lyrics. The song is heard at both the beginning and end of the film, with markedly different lyrics (and with different lyrics again from those in the commercially released version). It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song but the prize went to "Born Free". The song became a hit in late 1966 and early 1967, reaching number one in Australia and number three in the United Kingdom. In the United States, it was the Seekers' highest charting single, reaching number one on the ''Cash Box'' Top 100. "Georgy Girl" reached number two on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100; " I'm a Believer" by The Monkees, kept the song from number one. The song's U.S. success prompted the Seekers' British album ''Come the Day'' to be retitle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Forster
Margaret Forster (25 May 1938 – 8 February 2016) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, historian and critic, best known for the 1965 novel ''Georgy Girl'', made into a successful film of the same name, which inspired a hit song by The Seekers. Other successes were a 2003 novel, '' Diary of an Ordinary Woman'', biographies of Daphne du Maurier and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and her memoirs ''Hidden Lives'' and ''Precious Lives''. Early life and education Forster was born in the Raffles council estate in Carlisle, England. Her father, Arthur Forster, was a mechanic or factory fitter, her mother, Lilian (née Hind), a housewife who had worked as a clerk or secretary before her marriage. Forster attended Carlisle and County High School for Girls (1949–1956), a grammar school. She went on to win an open scholarship to read history at Somerville College, Oxford, graduating in 1960. Her first job was two years (1961–1963) of teaching English at Barnsbury Girls' Scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgy Girl (musical)
''Georgy Girl – The Seekers Musical'' is a biographical jukebox musical about the Australian 1960s pop quartet The Seekers, written by Patrick Edgeworth. It incorporates songs associated with The Seekers, such as "Morningtown Ride", "I'll Never Find Another You", " The Carnival is Over", "A World of Our Own" and "Georgy Girl". It also includes several pop songs by other artists, including Tom Jones's "It's Not Unusual" and Bessie Smith's "Mama's Got the Blues". Writer Patrick Edgeworth had a personal connection to the material, in that his brother, Ron Edgeworth, was married to Judith Durham, who was The Seekers' lead singer from 1963 to 1968. ''Georgy Girl'' began previews at Her Majesty's Theatre Her Majesty's Theatre is a West End theatre situated on Haymarket in the City of Westminster, London. The present building was designed by Charles J. Phipps and was constructed in 1897 for actor-manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree, who established t ... in Melbourne on 15 December 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Goldson
Anne 'Annie' Veronica Goldson is a New Zealand journalism and film academic specialising in documentaries. Her films include Punitive Damage, Georgie Girl, Brother Number One and Kim Dotcom: ''Caught in the Web''. Career Goldson has a BSc from Otago University, a Diploma in Journalism from Canterbury University, a Master of Arts from New York University and a PhD from the University of Auckland. The title of her doctoral thesis was ''A claim to truth: documentary, politics, production''. She is currently a professor at of Media and Communication at the University of Auckland. Honours and recognition Goldson was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2007 for services to film and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2007. She was awarded the Humanities Aronui Medal by Royal Society Te Apārangi in 2021. Selected works * Goldson, A. (12/3/2017)Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web South by South West Festival, Austin, Texas (premiere). *Gold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Wells (filmmaker)
Peter Northe Wells (8 February 1950 – 18 February 2019) was a New Zealand writer, filmmaker, and historian. He was mainly known for his fiction, but also explored his interest in gay and historical themes in a number of expressive drama and documentary films from the 1980s onwards. Career Film Wells's first feature film was ''Desperate Remedies'' (1993), co-directed with Stewart Main. This take on New Zealand's colonial beginnings was selected to screen at the Cannes Film Festival, and represented an expressionistic alternative to the "man alone" machismo that dominated New Zealand film in the 1970s and 80s. Writing In the years that followed, Wells concentrated on developing his writing career. His short stories and novels have been widely praised. In 1996 he collaborated with theatre director Colin McColl on an operatic dramatization of Katherine Mansfield's Wellington stories, commissioned for the NZ International Festival of the Arts. Two short stories from his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |