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Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing (2004) -- In 1920 Hilary Stevens wrote a novel about women in love that shocked two continents. Now it's 1964 and everyone wants to know, 'Who's the muse?' Adapted from the autobiographical novel by American author and poet May Sarton.

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Director:
Linda Thornburg
Writers:
May Sarton (novel)
Linda Thornburg (screenplay)
Release Date:
May 2004 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Romance more
Plot:
A lesbian author causes a scandal when she writes a novel about two women in love. | add synopsis
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Cast

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Lucy Brightman ... Hilary Stevens

Harley Kaplan ... Mar Hemmer
Patrick Richwood ... Peter Selverson
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Susan Bonowitz ... Woman talking with Dorothea
Emanueal Buckley ... Frank Hawkins
George Caleodis ... Dr. Hallowell
Carla Carpenter ... Alice Frothingham
Bryan K. Davis ... Norman Channing
Lorraine K. Deal ... Old Susan
Anne Diehl ... Willa MacPherson
Simon Dowd ... Hamilton Adams
Acacia Leigh Duncan ... Hilary Stevens age 15

Juliana Francis ... Julie Hare
Darcie Johnston ... Madeline HiRose
Moynan King ... Young Hilary

Tonia Krueger ... Alice Newton

John S. Kuhn ... Jason Frothingham
James Logan ... John MacPherson
Edmund Lynn Murray ... Oliver Avery

Jon Osbeck ... Adrian Stevens
Amy Rether ... Rachel Gilespie
Tami Reynolds ... Phillippa Munn
Kim Andra Sanders ... Eva Wallingford
Linda Schuler ... Aunt Ida
Kerry Shanklin ... Margaret Stevens
Lydia Rose Thornburg ... Hilary Stevens age 5
Jennifer Turney ... Hilary Stevens age 11
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Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Filming Locations:
Ohio, USA
Company:
Mrs. Stevens Productions more

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Principal photography began in June 2000. more

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A splendid adaptation of an important novel, 24 May 2005
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Author: Khrysso LeFey (khrysso@nashfae.org) from United States

As a poet, thinker, and diarist myself, I was affected profoundly by May Sarton's novel Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing. I was hoping that I would love the movie as well, and I was not disappointed. Because of the flashback sequences, it is able to tell two stories at once: it captures both the reflectiveness of the poet in the now and the succulent vigor of the young woman she was. In the meantime it reveals the reflectiveness of the younger Hilary and the continuing vitality of the older Hilary. The pacing reminded me of a Masterpiece Theatre production, as befits the story, however veiled, of a literary figure. I found myself riveted by it, as I was by the novel all those years ago.

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