Notorious Woman was a 1974
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George SandAmantine Aurore Lucile Dupin, later Baroness Dudevant , best known by her pseudonym George Sand , was a French novelist. She is considered by some a feminist although she refused to join this movement...
. It starred
Rosemary HarrisRosemary Ann Harris is an English actress and a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame.-Early life:Harris was born in Ashby, Suffolk, England, the daughter of Enid Maude Frances and Stafford Berkley Harris. Her grandmother was Romanian...
in the title role. The seven episodes were written by Harry W. Junkin and directed by
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Notorious Woman was a 1974
BBCThe British Broadcasting Corporation, usually referred to by its abbreviation as the "BBC", is the longest established and largest broadcaster in the world...
televisionTelevision is a widely used telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images, either monochromatic or color, usually accompanied by sound. "Television" may also refer specifically to a television set, television programming or television transmission...
serial based on the life of
FrenchFrance , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...
author
George SandAmantine Aurore Lucile Dupin, later Baroness Dudevant , best known by her pseudonym George Sand , was a French novelist. She is considered by some a feminist although she refused to join this movement...
. It starred
Rosemary HarrisRosemary Ann Harris is an English actress and a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame.-Early life:Harris was born in Ashby, Suffolk, England, the daughter of Enid Maude Frances and Stafford Berkley Harris. Her grandmother was Romanian...
in the title role. The seven episodes were written by Harry W. Junkin and directed by
Waris HusseinWaris Hussein is a British-Indian television director and film director best known for his many productions for British television...
.
In the
United StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, the series was broadcast in 1975–1976 as part of the fifth season of
Masterpiece TheatreMasterpiece is an anglophiliac drama anthology television series produced by WGBH Boston. It premiered on PBS on January 10, 1971, making it America's longest-running weekly primetime drama series. The series has presented numerous acclaimed British productions...
on PBS.
Principal cast
- Rosemary Harris
Rosemary Ann Harris is an English actress and a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame.-Early life:Harris was born in Ashby, Suffolk, England, the daughter of Enid Maude Frances and Stafford Berkley Harris. Her grandmother was Romanian...
- George SandAmantine Aurore Lucile Dupin, later Baroness Dudevant , best known by her pseudonym George Sand , was a French novelist. She is considered by some a feminist although she refused to join this movement...
- Lewis Fiander
Lewis Fiander is an Australian stage, television and film actor.- Biography :Fiander was born in Melbourne, Victoria, the son of Mona Jane and Walter Lewis Fiander. Moving to the UK from his native Australia, initially to appear in the play "The One Day of the Year", he appeared in such films as...
- Casimir DudevantFrançois Casimir, Baron Dudevant was a French nobleman, and the illegitimate son of Baron Jean-François Dudevant and his mistress Augustine Soulé....
- George Chakiris
George Chakiris is an American dancer and film actor.-Early life:Chakiris was born in Norwood, Ohio to Steven and Zoe Chakiris, immigrants from Greece. Chakiris studied at the American School of Dance....
- Frédéric ChopinFrédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He was one of the great masters of Romantic music....
- Alan Howard
Alan MacKenzie Howard, CBE, is an English actor known for his roles on stage, television and film.He was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1966 to 1983, and played leading roles at the Royal National Theatre between 1992 and 2000.-Personal life:Howard is the only son of the actor...
- Prosper MeriméeProsper Mérimée was a French dramatist, historian, archaeologist, and short story writer. He is perhaps best known for his novella Carmen, which became the basis of Bizet's opera Carmen.-Life:...
- Jeremy Irons
Jeremy John Irons is an English film, television, and stage actor. He has won the Academy Award, the Tony Award, two Emmy Awards, two Golden Globes, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to many other awards and honors....
- Franz LisztFranz Liszt was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist and teacher....
- Peter Woodthorpe
Peter Woodthorpe was an English movie, television and voice actor who is best known for supplying the voice of Gollum in the 1978 Bakshi version of The Lord of the Rings and BBC's 1981 radio serial...
- Honoré de BalzacHonoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1815.Due to his keen observation of detail...
- Shane Briant
Shane Briant is an actor and novelist. Briant studied Law at Trinity College Dublin but became a professional actor playing the name role in Hamlet at the Eblana theatre...
- Alfred de MussetAlfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist.Along with his poetry, he is known for writing La Confession d'un enfant du siècle from 1836.-Biography:Musset was born on 11 December 1810 in Paris...
- Sinéad Cusack
Sinéad Moira Cusack is an Irish actress.-Background:Cusack was born Jane Moira Cusack, the daughter of Maureen and Cyril Cusack, both actors. She is the sister of actresses Sorcha Cusack, Niamh Cusack and half sister to Catherine Cusack...
- Marie DorvalMarie Dorval was a French actress.- Early life :Born Marie Thomase Amélie Delauney; abandoned by her father when she was five years old, and losing her mother to tuberculosis while still a teenager, at age of 15 she married Alain Dorval, a much older actor, who died five years later...
- Jonathan Newth
Jonathan Newth in Devon is a British actor, best known for his performances in television.Credits include: Emergency Ward 10, The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Ace of Wands, The Troubleshooters, Z-Cars, Callan, Van der Valk, The Brothers, Softly, Softly, Poldark, Doctor Who, Notorious Woman, Secret...
- Hippolyte Chatiron
- Joyce Redman
Joyce Redman is an Irish actress.She was born in County Mayo, Ireland, to an Anglo-Irish family. She was educated by a private governess in Ireland, along with her three sisters. She was trained in acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.Her acting roles have been primarily in the theatre and...
- Sophie Dupin
- Cathleen Nesbitt
Cathleen Nesbitt, CBE was an English actress. Born in Cheshire, England, she was educated in Lisieux, France and attended the Queen's University of Belfast, and studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, France...
- Madame Dupin
Awards and nominations
- 1976 Emmy Award
The Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards , Grammy Awards and Tony Awards .They are presented in various...
: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series, Rosemary Harris
- 1976 Golden Globe
The Golden Globe Awards are presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to recognize outstanding achievements in the entertainment industry, both domestic and foreign, and to focus wide public attention upon the best in motion pictures and television...
Nomination: Best TV Actress in a Drama, Rosemary Harris
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