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The Oscar Wilde collection [DVD videorecording] / British Broadcasting Corporation.

FilmPublisher: [London] : Burbank, CA : BBC Video ; Distributed by Warner Home Video, 2002Description: 2 videodiscs (456 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: 0790768704Other title: Part title of disc 1: Stage left [DVD videorecording] | Part title of disc 2: Stage right [DVD videorecording]Subject(s): Identity (Psychology) -- Drama | Supernatural -- Drama | Mothers and daughters -- Drama | Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 -- Film and video adaptations | DVDs for the hearing impairedGenre/Form: Feature films.DDC classification: 791.45/75

Contents:

[1] Stage left. The importance of being earnest (1986) ; The picture of Dorian Gray (1976) (196 min.) -- [2] Stage right. An ideal husband (1969) ; Lady Windermere's fan (1985) ; The life and loves of Oscar Wilde (1995) (260 min.).

Production credits: Importance: producer, Shaun Sutton ; director, Stuart Burge. Picture: producer, Cedric Messina ; director, John Gorrie; dramatist, John Osborne ; music, Joseph Horovitz. Ideal husband: producer, Cedric Messina ; director, Rudolph Cartier. Lady Windemere's fan: producer, Louis Marks ; director, Tony Smith. Life and loves: a BBC/Arts and Entertainment Networks co-production ; producer, Annie Paul.Cast: Importance of being earnest: Joan Plowright, Paul McGann, Amanda Redman, Rupert Frazer, Natalie Ogle, Gemma Jones, Alec McCowen. Picture of Dorian Grey: Jeremy Brett, Peter Firth, John Gielgud, Gwen Ffrangon-Davies, Nan Munro, Mark Dignam, Judi Bowker. Ideal husband: Jeremy Brett, Susan Hampshire, Keith Michell, Dinah Sheridan. Lady Windermere's fan: Helena Little, Tim Woodward, Stephanie Turner, Kenneth Cranham, Sara Kestleman.Summary: A collection of four of Oscar Wilde's masterpieces, and a 1995 documentary about his life, his relationship with Alfred Douglas and the trials that destroyed his career. Includes reflections by Wilde's grandson Merlin Holland, and Douglas' grandniece Alice Douglas.

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Item type	Current location	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
DVD	Madison Branch Audiovisual	Adult materials	DM DVD OSC (Browse shelf)	1	Available		31562009885841

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Importance of being earnest: Joan Plowright, Paul McGann, Amanda Redman, Rupert Frazer, Natalie Ogle, Gemma Jones, Alec McCowen. Picture of Dorian Grey: Jeremy Brett, Peter Firth, John Gielgud, Gwen Ffrangon-Davies, Nan Munro, Mark Dignam, Judi Bowker. Ideal husband: Jeremy Brett, Susan Hampshire, Keith Michell, Dinah Sheridan. Lady Windermere's fan: Helena Little, Tim Woodward, Stephanie Turner, Kenneth Cranham, Sara Kestleman.

Importance: producer, Shaun Sutton ; director, Stuart Burge. Picture: producer, Cedric Messina ; director, John Gorrie; dramatist, John Osborne ; music, Joseph Horovitz. Ideal husband: producer, Cedric Messina ; director, Rudolph Cartier. Lady Windemere's fan: producer, Louis Marks ; director, Tony Smith. Life and loves: a BBC/Arts and Entertainment Networks co-production ; producer, Annie Paul.

Productions for television originally broadcast from 1969 through 1995.

Based on the work of Oscar Wilde.

A collection of four of Oscar Wilde's masterpieces, and a 1995 documentary about his life, his relationship with Alfred Douglas and the trials that destroyed his career. Includes reflections by Wilde's grandson Merlin Holland, and Douglas' grandniece Alice Douglas.

Special features: the documentary, "The Life and loves of Oscar Wilde"; dramatis personae for each play.

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