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Title The Oscar Wilde collection / British Broadcasting Corporation.

Publication Info. [London] : BBC Video ; Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, 2002.

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 Moore Video  PR5815 2002    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
Description 2 DVDs (456 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description digital
optical
video file
DVD video
System Details DVD.
Cast Importance of being earnest: Joan Plowright, Paul McGann, Amanda Redman, Rupert Frazer, Natalie Ogle, Gemma Jones, Alec McCowen. Picture of Dorian Grey: Jeremy Brett, Peter Firth, John Gielgud, Gwen Ffrangon-Davies, Nan Munro, Mark Dignam, Judi Bowker. Ideal husband: Jeremy Brett, Susan Hampshire, Keith Michell, Dinah Sheridan. Lady Windermere's fan: Helena Little, Tim Woodward, Stephanie Turner, Kenneth Cranham, Sara Kestleman.
Credits Importance: producer, Shaun Sutton ; director, Stuart Burge. Picture: producer, Cedric Messina ; director, John Gorrie; dramatist, John Osborne ; music, Joseph Horovitz. Ideal husband: producer, Cedric Messina ; director, Rudolph Cartier. Lady Windemere's fan: producer, Louis Marks ; director, Tony Smith. Life and loves: a BBC/Arts and Entertainment Networks co-production ; producer, Annie Paul.
Note Productions for television originally broadcast from 1969 through 1995.
Based on the work of Oscar Wilde.
Summary A collection of four of Oscar Wilde's masterpieces, and a 1995 documentary about his life, his relationship with Alfred Douglas and the trials that destroyed his career. Includes reflections by Wilde's grandson Merlin Holland, and Douglas' grandniece Alice Douglas.
Contents [1] Stage left. The importance of being earnest (1986) ; The picture of Dorian Gray (1976) (196 min.) -- [2] Stage right. An ideal husband (1969) ; Lady Windermere's fan (1985) ; The life and loves of Oscar Wilde (1995) (260 min.).
Note Special features: the documentary, "The Life and loves of Oscar Wilde"; dramatis personae for each play.
Language Closed-captioned.
Subject Identity (Psychology) -- Drama.
Identity (Psychology)
Genre/Form Drama.
Subject Supernatural -- Drama.
Supernatural.
Mothers and daughters -- Drama.
Mothers and daughters.
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 -- Film adaptations.
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.
Genre/Form Film adaptations.
Feature films.
Feature films.
Video recordings.
Video recordings.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Drama.
Film adaptations.
Added Author Plowright, Joan.
McGann, Paul.
Redman, Amanda, 1957-
Frazer, Rupert.
Ogle, Natalie.
Jones, Gemma.
McCowen, Alec.
Brett, Jeremy, 1933-1995.
Firth, Peter, 1953-
Gielgud, John, 1904-2000.
Ffrangcon-Davies, Gwen, 1891-1992.
Munro, Nan.
Dignam, Mark, 1909-1989.
Bowker, Judi, 1954-
British Broadcasting Corporation.
BBC Video (Firm)
Warner Home Video (Firm)
Note Part title of disc 1: Stage left
Part title of disc 2: Stage right
Added Title Importance of being earnest.
Picture of Dorian Gray.
Ideal husband.
Lady Windermere's fan.
Life and loves of Oscar Wilde.
ISBN 0790768704
9780790768700
Standard No. 794051167026
Music No. E1670 Warner Home Video