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Director:
Otto Preminger
Writers:
Dorothy Parker (writer)
Walter Reisch (writer)
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Release Date:
8 December 1950 (Finland) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Plot:
Lord Windermere appears to all -including to his young wife Margaret - as the perfect husband. But their... more | add synopsis
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Reflects very well Oscar Wilde's novel's atmosphere more

Cast

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Lady Windermere's Fan (UK)
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Runtime:
France:78 min | USA:89 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
Finland:S | Sweden:15

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Trivia:
Final film of Madeleine Carroll. more
Movie Connections:
Version of Lady Windermeres Fächer (1935) more

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4 out of 5 people found the following comment useful:-
Reflects very well Oscar Wilde's novel's atmosphere, 28 September 2007
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Author: beduran from United Kingdom

The story of "Lady Windemere's Fan" is a touching portrait of repression and hypocrisy in England during the Victorian era. The pivotal character in the movie is the charming, mysterious wise and beautiful middle-age woman played by Madeleine Carroll, who returns to the conservative upper-class milieu that had banished and rejected her decades ago. She manages to come to terms with the most delicate and unresolved aspects of her past, but she has to pay a very high price for that. Nevertheless, she is a survivor and in her eighties she will be able to make a balance and reflect on that crucial episode of her past. Madeleine Carroll and George Sanders are perfectly cast as the middle-age charmers and schemers, and also sound believable as the frail but smart octogenarian survivors, and deliver great performances on the hands of Preminger, who is able to maintain a good rhythm and to capture what we might figure is the Victorian society's aristocratic milieu of gossips and intrigues. I also enjoyed Martita Hunt as a typical upper-class eccentric, manipulative and witty matron; and thought that both Richard Greene and Jeanne Crain were OK as the younger Windemere couple. I think that this underrated little gem deserves a wider distribution. I am very lucky that in Spain the DVD of "The Fan" has been released in September 2007.

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