“Soon to be a major motion picture.” From its publication in 1986, that was what British actor-writer Peter Turner expected of his Gloria Grahame memoir “Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool.” But it took three decades for the May-December romance starring Annette Bening and Jamie Bell to finally hit theaters December 29.
This could have been yet another film that never got made. But James Bond producer Barbara Broccoli knew Turner back when the young actor was in love with Grahame, his fellow lodger twice his age at a Primrose Hill rooming house. “I’ve known Peter Turner for 40 years,” said Broccoli. “I met him and Gloria together. It was a special relationship. Sometime after she passed away he wrote the memoir, and gave me the manuscript. I thought it was so beautiful.”
Columbia Pictures chairman David Puttnam optioned the book shortly after its publication, but the project went into turnaround...
This could have been yet another film that never got made. But James Bond producer Barbara Broccoli knew Turner back when the young actor was in love with Grahame, his fellow lodger twice his age at a Primrose Hill rooming house. “I’ve known Peter Turner for 40 years,” said Broccoli. “I met him and Gloria together. It was a special relationship. Sometime after she passed away he wrote the memoir, and gave me the manuscript. I thought it was so beautiful.”
Columbia Pictures chairman David Puttnam optioned the book shortly after its publication, but the project went into turnaround...
- 12/14/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
She starred with Humphrey Bogart and James Stewart. But Gloria Grahame refused to bow to Hollywood sexism and was driven out. Frank Cottrell-Boyce on a new film about her finding love and a second life with a chaotic Liverpool family
In the late 1970s, Peter Turner was a young actor living in digs in Primrose Hill. One of his fellow lodgers in the London flat was Gloria Grahame – you know, the girl who couldn’t say no in Oklahoma!, the wayward small-town floozy in It’s a Wonderful Life.
By the time she met Peter, she was playing Sadie in a production of Somerset Maugham’s Rain at the Watford Palace. “She asked to borrow a shirt,” he says. “Then she needed a fiver. It escalated from there.” The couple began an on-off affair that seemed to dwindle to nothing – until late 1981. “Tuesday 29 September,” says Peter, embarking on a tale...
In the late 1970s, Peter Turner was a young actor living in digs in Primrose Hill. One of his fellow lodgers in the London flat was Gloria Grahame – you know, the girl who couldn’t say no in Oklahoma!, the wayward small-town floozy in It’s a Wonderful Life.
By the time she met Peter, she was playing Sadie in a production of Somerset Maugham’s Rain at the Watford Palace. “She asked to borrow a shirt,” he says. “Then she needed a fiver. It escalated from there.” The couple began an on-off affair that seemed to dwindle to nothing – until late 1981. “Tuesday 29 September,” says Peter, embarking on a tale...
- 11/14/2017
- by Frank Cottrell Boyce
- The Guardian - Film News
Adam Low’s new documentary, Alan Bennett’s Diaries, follows the writer around the UK and to New York over the course of a year, reflecting on the importance of music in his life, his relationship with partner Rupert Thomas – and his desire to own a donkey
• The film will be broadcast across the UK on 16 November, followed by a live Q&A with Bennett from his local library in Primrose Hill
• Bennett’s new collection of diaries, Keeping On, Keeping On, is published on 20 October by Faber & Faber and Profile Books
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• The film will be broadcast across the UK on 16 November, followed by a live Q&A with Bennett from his local library in Primrose Hill
• Bennett’s new collection of diaries, Keeping On, Keeping On, is published on 20 October by Faber & Faber and Profile Books
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- 9/27/2016
- by Picturehouse Entertainment
- The Guardian - Film News
The river has flooded in this comic fantasy, which has stellar production design but little sense of higher purpose
Purloined Jane Austen quote for a title, fog-wreathed wharves, smoke-spewing factory stacks, greasy spoons and, for those old enough to remember the Primrose Hill set, Sadie Frost’s acting career – no variety of antique Londoniana is unresurrected in Ben Charles Edwards’s comic-fantasy debut. The river has flooded his retro-unfuturistic capital, as Michael Winder’s piano player and Max Bennett’s sailor form a chance friendship and dream of escape to Egypt. But there’s a rising tide, too, of precious romanticism that swamps these “pilgrims not making any progress”, James Hatt’s stellar production design putting a fire under moon-dilated vistas but weighing down Edwards’s direction. There are moments of Guy Maddin-esque vim – like the crayfish that draws tarot cards – but even cameos such as Noel Fielding’s...
Purloined Jane Austen quote for a title, fog-wreathed wharves, smoke-spewing factory stacks, greasy spoons and, for those old enough to remember the Primrose Hill set, Sadie Frost’s acting career – no variety of antique Londoniana is unresurrected in Ben Charles Edwards’s comic-fantasy debut. The river has flooded his retro-unfuturistic capital, as Michael Winder’s piano player and Max Bennett’s sailor form a chance friendship and dream of escape to Egypt. But there’s a rising tide, too, of precious romanticism that swamps these “pilgrims not making any progress”, James Hatt’s stellar production design putting a fire under moon-dilated vistas but weighing down Edwards’s direction. There are moments of Guy Maddin-esque vim – like the crayfish that draws tarot cards – but even cameos such as Noel Fielding’s...
- 9/15/2016
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
Andrew Garfield is keeping busy with some new company. Garfield, 32, was spotted out with a brunette while enjoying a late-night dinner at the Lansdowne Pub in London's trendy Primrose Hill on Feb. 1. The pair looked relaxed and were all smiles as they chatted while sitting across from each other inside the restaurant. Although they were later seen leaving together, a source tells People they did not immediately seem publicly affectionate. Garfield looked casual for the outing, wearing jeans and a blue T-shirt with a brown coat to keep him warm from the winter chill. His date also kept her look low-key,...
- 2/9/2016
- by Jodi Guglielmi, @JodiGug3
- PEOPLE.com
Andrew Garfield is keeping busy with some new company. Garfield, 32, was spotted out with a brunette while enjoying a late-night dinner at the Lansdowne Pub in London's trendy Primrose Hill on Feb. 1. The pair looked relaxed and were all smiles as they chatted while sitting across from each other inside the restaurant. Although they were later seen leaving together, a source tells People they did not immediately seem publicly affectionate. Garfield looked casual for the outing, wearing jeans and a blue T-shirt with a brown coat to keep him warm from the winter chill. His date also kept her look low-key,...
- 2/9/2016
- by Jodi Guglielmi, @JodiGug3
- PEOPLE.com
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