Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Stage beauty [videorecording] / Qwerty Films, Artisan Entertainment presents a Tribeca production in association with N1 European Film Produktions GmbH & Co. KG, BBC Films and Artisan Entertainment, a Richard Eyre film ; produced by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, Hardy Justice ; screenplay by Jeffrey Hatcher ; directed by Richard Eyre.

Publisher, Date:

Santa Monica, Calif. : Artisan Entertainment : Distributed by Lions Gate Home Entertainment, [2005]

Description:

1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Welcome to the 17th century stage, where Ned Kynaston's performace of Desdemona in Shakespeare's 'Othello' brings the house down nightly. Ned is the "most beautiful woman on the London stage". That is, until the King renounces the royal edict that only men can play women on stage. Enter Maria, Ned's seemingly loyal dresser, who becomes an instant star, leaving Ned to suppress his ardent feminine traits and make a man of himself.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: R; for sexual content and language.

Subjects:

Actors -- England -- London -- Drama.

Actresses -- England -- London -- Drama.

Desdemona (Fictitious character) -- Drama.

Actores -- Inglaterra -- Londres -- Teatro.

Actrices -- Inglaterra -- Londres -- Teatro.

Feature films.

Historical films.

Other Author:

Eyre, Richard, 1943-