Georgy Girl (1966)

User Rating:

7.0/10   

Director:

Silvio Narizzano

Writers:

Margaret Forster (novel)
Margaret Forster (screenplay)

Release Date:

17 October 1966 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

Tagline:

The wildest thing to hit the world since the mini-skirt!

Plot:

A homely but vivacious young woman dodges the amorous attentions of her father's middle-aged employer...

Plot Keywords:

Roommate | Pregnancy | Hospital | Baby | Swinging London

Awards:

Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 13 nominations

Cast

James Mason	...	James Leamington
Alan Bates	...	Jos Jones
Lynn Redgrave	...	Georgy
Charlotte Rampling	...	Meredith
Bill Owen	...	Ted
Clare Kelly	...	Doris
Rachel Kempson	...	Ellen Leamington
Denise Coffey	...	Peg
Peggy Thorpe-Bates	...	Hospital Sister
Dandy Nichols	...	Hospital Nurse
Dorothy Alison	...	Health Visitor
Terence Soall	...	Salesman
Jolyan Booth	...	Registry Office Clerk

Runtime:

99 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English | Italian

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound Recording)

Certification:

Canada:14A (Ontario) | UK:15 (video rating) (1988) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:12 (DVD rating) (2005) | UK:X (original rating) | USA:Approved

Filming Locations:

449 Edgware Road, Maida Vale, London, England, UK

Company:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Trivia:

Dilys Watling was nominated for the 1970 Tony Award (New York City) for Actress in a Musical for "Georgy" as the title character.

Goofs:

Continuity: In the early scene at the piano where Georgy's father has brought her a dress to wear to a birthday party, she's wearing glasses when he starts to say, "Oh, please yourself," but not wearing them before he finishes the line.

Quotes:

Meredith: I'll tell you what this pregnancy's taught me: It's taught me to look like the back end of a bus and sit around every night with nothing to do!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "The Nanny: The Yummy Mummy (#6.13)" (1999)

Soundtrack:

I'm Gonna Leave Her

One of my personal cult movies

Reviews seem to miss the real theme of this film, which is about the voyage of self-discovery of a person who feels out of sync with her world and tries to define, or redefine, her own true self. This theme has a strange attraction for me -- I identify with Georgy's search, I think, because of my own feelings of misalignment with the world or alienation. Unfortunately, as a male, it seems that the principal characters in films addressing this theme with sensitivity are invariably women. Perhaps in our society men are expected not to have such uncertainties about themselves or to suppress them, so no films are made. Two other films I enjoyed because of their similar themes are "Muriel's Wedding" and "Thelma and Louise". If you like, you can tell me I'm reading far more into this film than was ever intended, reminiscent of Mark Twain's famous warning. But you won't convince me! Alan