Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The Oscar Wilde collection [videorecording] / British Broadcasting Corporation.

Publisher, Date:

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

Description:

2 videodiscs (456 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

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.

Subjects:

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 -- Film and video adaptations.

Identity (Psychology) -- Drama.

Supernatural -- Drama.

Mothers and daughters -- Drama.

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Plowright, Joan.

McGann, Paul.

Redman, Amanda, 1957-

Frazer, Rupert, 1947-

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)

Other Title:

Part title of disc 1: Stage left.

Part title of disc 2: Stage right.

Importance of being earnest.

Picture of Dorian Gray.

Ideal husband.

Lady Windermere's fan.

Life and loves of Oscar Wilde.

Notes:

Productions for television originally broadcast from 1969 through 1995.

Based on the work of Oscar Wilde.

Special features: the documentary, "The Life and loves of Oscar Wilde"; dramatis personae for each play.

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.

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.

DVD.

Closed-captioned.

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.).

ISBN:

0790768704

9780790768700

Publisher Number:

E1670

Other Number:

49717357

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

234723

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD TV Oscar Wi

Medium:

[videorecording]