Movie, 1983
6.8/101h 58m
Directed by Peter Yates
In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser - is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the London Blitz. The pathos of his backstage efforts rival the pathos in the story of Lear and the Fool that is being presented on-stage, as the situation comes to a crisis.
18 titles
Edward Fox
Oxenby

Zena Walker
Her Ladyship

Eileen Atkins
Madge

Michael Gough
Frank Carrington

Cathryn Harrison
Irene

Betty Marsden
Violet Manning

Sheila Reid
Lydia Gibson

Lockwood West
Geoffrey Thornton
Donald Eccles
Mr. Godstone

Llewellyn Rees
Horace Brown
Guy Manning
Benton
Anne Blackman
Beryl

Kevin Stoney
C. Rivers Lane
Ann Way
Miss White
John Sharp
Mr. Bottomley

Kathy Staff
Bombazine Woman
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