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).
A Picture of Katherine Mansfield | |
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Genre | Drama |
Based on | The life and short stories of Katherine Mansfield |
Written by | Robin Chapman |
Directed by | Alan Cooke |
Starring | |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of episodes | 6 |
Production | |
Producer | Rosemary Hill |
Running time | 50 minutes |
Production company | BBC |
Original release | |
Network | BBC Two |
Release | 1 May 5 June 1973 | –
Cast edit
- Vanessa Redgrave as Katherine Mansfield
- Jeremy Brett as John Middleton Murry
- Lyndon Hughes as Josie
- Annette Crosbie as L.M.
- Phyllida Law as Mother
- Bruce Purchase as Father
- Geoffrey Burridge as Henry
Short Story Adaptations edit
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 edit
External links edit
- A Picture of Katherine Mansfield at IMDb
- A Picture of Katherine Mansfield[dead link] at British Film Institute