Hi!
Two of my favorite films set in the Victorian/Edwardian periods are the Merchant-Ivory Room with a View and the sets in Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons. (Ambersons is kind of a downer film.) I also love the sets for portions of My Fair Lady. What are your faves?
Two of My Favorite Victorian/Edwardian Period Films
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Period Movie Discussion thread on victorianforum.com · started August 20, 2008 by drew49 · 2 posts · discussion in 2008.
Hi! Two of my favorite films set in the Victorian/Edwardian periods are the Merchant-Ivory Room with a View and the sets in Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons. (Ambersons is kind of a downer film.) I also love the sets for portions of My Fair Lady. What are your faves?
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Hi!
Two of my favorite films set in the Victorian/Edwardian periods are the Merchant-Ivory Room with a View and the sets in Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons. (Ambersons is kind of a downer film.) I also love the sets for portions of My Fair Lady. What are your faves?
Yes, a A Room with a View has some very nice set design. I in particular always enjoy the scenes taking place in the London home of Cecil Vyse and his mother, as they were filmed at Linley Sambourne House... Lucy Honeychurch may dump poor Cecil, but he does, after all, get to console his not-so-broken heart in that utterly-utter stair hall!
Our bookshelves refuse to yield up my copy of The Films of Merchant Ivory, but IIRC, Linley Sambourne House also makes at least one other appearance in a Merchant Ivory film, in the less-well-known Maurice, as the residence of the Hugh Grant character.