The Radio Times Guide to Films gave the film 4/5 stars, writing: "This painfully honest drama, based on a play by Ted Willis, was light years ahead of its time in its treatment of women and their place in marriage. Yvonne Mitchell stars in a role that should have seen her showered in awards. Her portrayal of clinical depression is stunning in its depth and understanding, and director J Lee Thompson pulls no punches in his exploration of a partnership gone sour with the intrusion of a younger woman. In many ways this movie heralded a new dawn in gritty British film-making which culminated in the "kitchen sink" social dramas of the 1960s" [13] Awards [ edit ] Finally, on the Monday night, Jimbo tells Amy that he wants a divorce (I supsect that what finally does it for him is that Amy serves up a particularly unappetisiing one contemporary viewer who said 'It's done for dressing gowns what Psycho did for showers' although I wonder when that comment was made as Psycho was not for another three In British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959 David Quinlan rated the film as "very good", writing: "Superior kitchen-sink soaper whose power overcomes even the casting of upper-class stars in working-class roles." [12] She was born Maureen Rippingale in Chelmsford, Essex, but ran away from home at the age of 16, "aiming to become a star". [2]

The main characters are typical rather than exceptional; the situations are easily identifiable by the audience....I am just now becoming aware of this area, thisNield, Anthony (2012). " 'Woman in a Dressing Gown' Review". The Digital Fix. Recent review on the occasion of the 2012 DVD release of a restored version of the film. Of angry middle-aged housewives, there was but one: Amy Preston (Yvonne Mitchell) in the neo-realist Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957), which is habitually neglected in the kitchen-sink roll call. That will change with the re-release today and DVD release on 13 August of J. Lee Thompson’s suspenseful proto-feminist film, for which Mitchell won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at Berlin. It was actually the first kitchen-sink drama, and the one that defined the term. I confess that I had never heard of J Lee Thompson's Woman in a Dressing Gown prior to reading Melanie Williams' piece on it in the August edition of Sight & Sound. As someone with both a personal and professional interest in British cinema this is either an unforgivable oversight on my part or symptomatic of the film's current status as something of a forgotten gem. I'd like to think it's the latter, mainly to spare my own blushes, and thankfully we all now have the opportunity to either be introduced to or re-acquainted with this groundbreaking slice of social realist drama.

J. Lee Thompson later said the film lost money but was well received by critics. [5] Critical [ edit ] Berlinale 1957: Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on 4 April 2014 . Retrieved 31 December 2009. As a young woman straight out of Rada, Syms was instantly in demand, playing a rebellious girl in My Teenage Daughter in 1956, starring in the classic Ice Cold in Alex alongside John Mills, and later taking on the role of the unsuspecting wife of a closeted gay man, played by Dirk Bogarde, in Victim, a part no one else would touch. Another London is a new exhibition at Tate Britain which reveals the capital as seen through the eyes of photographers from all over the world, from 1930 until 1980. The images chart the city's transformation, from bombed- out ruin to punk playground. Craig Taylor, author of Londoners, considers the capital's many changes. an audience today would surely take a different view of things than a contemporary audience, who presumably would have found nothing odd or strange in Jimbo coming in and expecting everything to beWoman in a Dressing Gown is a 1957 British drama film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Yvonne Mitchell, Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms, and Carole Lesley. [2]

Woman in a Dressing Gown" has been given a superb DVD release by StudioCanal - a perfect, sharp and crystal clear image with excellent audio for the film itself, and some excellent extras including interviews with the producer and most fascinatingly Sylvia Syms, who shares her memories of making the film with us and her thoughts about her character and those of Jim (Anthony Quayle) and Amy (Yvonne Mitchell). Husband Jim (Anthony Quayle) swerves into the arms of pretty young colleague Georgie (Sylvia Syms) but his request for a divorce wrenches Amy into a dark reflection of what her life has become, in what remains as moving a portrayal of repressed desires as you’ll see onscreen. Carole Lesley (27 May 1935 – 28 February 1974), was a British actress who had a short but significant career as a "blonde bombshell". [1] It and the films that followed were, as Richard Armstrong notes, "fed by the 'Angry Young Men' of 1950s theatre, theInterview interspersed with caption cards asking specific questions about how she became involved in the project, the portrayal of women and working class people in the film, how she felt about the character of Georgie.

Ahead of its time in some respects, particularly in its placing of a dysfunctional woman at the centre of the drama, Woman in a Dressing Gown at least thematically foreshadows some of the emotional and social concerns of the 'kitchen sink' dramas of the early 1960s even if its stylistic qualities and performance modes bear little in common with the naturalism of such films. However, Thompson crafts a film full of visual surprises that matches Mitchell's own exploration of entrapment and depression. It's a little-known, thought-provoking gem and you have a chance to see this again in cinemas from 27 July as Studiocanal and ICO are re-releasing the film. Here's a full list of play dates. This is what happens in WIADG, as can be seen from the scene above. Extremely unappetising though the food is, Jimbo and Brian actually don't eat any

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I have recently become fascinated by the minutiae of certain aspects of film; spotting little-known actors who have become familiar to me for example. My father that it's only her that calls him Jimbo in the first place, and when she puts the radio on again at the end and gives her gormless grin you start having doubts all over again. A remarkably fine The song served as a warning to America's housewives not to let themselves go, or some young girl at the office was bound to steal their man. These sentiments are echoed in a British film that pre-dated that song by seven years - Woman in a Dressing Gown - which won a slew of prizes in the 1957 Berlin Film Festival. Radio Times Guide to Films (18thed.). London: Immediate Media Company. 2017. p.1036. ISBN 9780992936440. The story reaches its climax in the couple's council flat living room. The three protagonists realise they must face up to the situation they have created. They fight fiercely for the slice of the love and happiness they feel that life owes them and cannot share. Even the best outcome means at least one loser.