Wilde Times: by or about Oscar Wilde
Works by and about Oscar Wilde
Behind the scenes / Making of books:
Behind the scenes / Making of books:
- Masterpiece Theatre: A Celebration of 25 Years of Outstanding Television - by Terrence O'Flaherty (behind the scenes of many UK series, including Lillie)
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- DirectorBrian GilbertStarsStephen FryJude LawVanessa RedgraveThe turmoil in poet/playwright Oscar Wilde's life after he discovers his homosexuality.
- DirectorRichard Curson SmithStarsAnna ChancellorAnna DevlinJames FleetA star-studded account of Oscar Wilde's glittering and controversial career before his trial for homosexual crimes and tragic fall from grace. With scenes from his greatest work.
- StarsFrancesca AnnisCatherine FellerPeggy Ann WoodSeen on Masterpiece Theatre, starring Francesca Annis in an award-winning performance, Lillie vividly captures the complex woman who became one of the most notorious and respected figures of the Victorian era.
- DirectorOliver ParkerStarsRupert EverettJulianne MoorePeter VaughanLondon 1895: Cabinet minister, Sir Chiltern, and bachelor, Lord Goring, are victims of scheming women.
- DirectorOliver ParkerStarsRupert EverettColin FirthFrances O'ConnorIn 1890s London, two friends use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") for their on-the-sly activities. Hilarity ensues.
- DirectorMike BarkerStarsHelen HuntScarlett JohanssonTom WilkinsonA 1930s American socialite creates a scandal in the expatriate high society of the Amalfi Coast of Italy when she forms a secretive relationship with a wealthy American unbeknownst to his young wife.Based on Lady Windermere’s Fan
- DirectorKathy BurkeRoss MacGibbonStarsSamantha SpiroKevin BishopJennifer SaundersThe day of Lady Windermere's birthday party, and all is perfectly in order. Until her friend Lord Darlington plants a seed of suspicion. Is her husband having an affair? And will the other woman really attend the party? First performed in 1892, one of Wilde's most popular and witty plays, it explores the ambiguity of upper class morality and the fragile position of women in the late Victorian era.
- DirectorAllen EvensonJoseph HensonJuan IllzaturriStarsSarah NavratilJonathan Le BillonJulia Farino"Lady Windermere's Fan" is based on Oscar Wilde's classic play set in 1890s London. Lady Windermere discovers that her husband could be having an affair with another woman. She confronts her husband but he instead invites the other woman, Mrs Erlynne, to his wife's birthday party. Angered by her husband's infidelity, Lady Windermere leaves her husband for a lover. After discovering what has transpired, Mrs Erlynne follows Lady Windermere and attempts to persuade her to return to her husband, and in the course of this, Mrs Erlynne is discovered in a compromising position. It is then revealed that Mrs Erlynne is Lady Windermere's mother, who abandoned her family 20 years before. Mrs Erlynne sacrifices herself and her reputation to save her daughter's marriage.
- DirectorTony SmithStarsHelena LittleTim WoodwardStephanie TurnerLord Windermere appears to all - including to his young wife Margaret - as the perfect husband. But their happy marriage is placed at risk when Lord Windermere starts spending his afternoons with an adventuress who is working her way through London's high society, Mrs. Erlynne. Worse, Windermere gives her big sums of money. To crown it all he asks his wife to invite the detestable woman to her own birthday party. Upset and outraged, the puritan Lady Windermere decides to leave her husband and goes to Lord Robert Darlington, who has been courting her for some time. Unfortunately she leaves her fan - the one Robert offered her for her birthday - in Robert's house...
- DirectorKen HughesStarsPeter FinchYvonne MitchellJames MasonA chronicle of Oscar Wilde's libel suit against the Marquis of Queensberry and the tragic turn his life takes because of it.
- StarsMichael GambonRobin McCallumTim HardyBiography of Irish writer Oscar Wilde.
- DirectorOliver ParkerStarsBen BarnesColin FirthRebecca HallA corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty eternally, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.
- DirectorTamara HarveyStarsFionn WhiteheadAlfred EnochJoanna LumleyIn a profile pic-obsessed, filter-fixated world where online personas and reality blur, social media influencer Dorian Gray makes a deal for his star to never fade.
- DirectorDave RosenbaumStarsJosh DuhamelBranden WaughRainer JuddA corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.
- DirectorDuncan RoyStarsDavid GallagherNoah SeganChristian CamargoA contemporary adaptation of Oscar Wilde classic tale of vanity.
- DirectorCrispin ReeceStarsIan RichardsonCelia ImrieSarah-Jane PottsAn American millionaire moves into an historic and imposing mansion, which comes complete with its very own eccentric ghost.
- DirectorYann SamuellStarsAudrey FleurotMichaël YounMichèle LaroqueIn the depths of a British legend, the ghost of Eleanor Canterville is condemned to haunt the castle of his family and to scare away any inhabitant. It fulfills this task perfectly, helped by Gwilherm, his faithful servant. But when Otis, a family fleeing Parisian life, buy the castle, Eleanor is upset because she cannot scare this tribe of the twenty-first century. Worse yet, children ridicule and parents are unaware. Only Virginia Otis, aged fifteen, moved by the fate of Canterville Ghost, will seek to deliver from curse on it.
- DirectorPaul BogartStarsJohn GielgudTed WassAndrea MarcovicciA girl befriends a mischievous English ghost trying to scare her family (his descendants) back to America.
- DirectorWilliam F. ClaxtonStarsRichard KileyJenny BeckShelley FabaresThe poor ghost of Sir Simon Canterville has been roaming his castle searching in vain for a brave descendant who will release him from the Canterville curse by performing a brave deed. An American family moves in and finds the ghost amusing, but a young girl in the family can release him - if she dares!
- DirectorRobin MillerStarsIsla BlairMaurice EvansJames WhitmoreThe poor ghost of Sir Simon de Canterville (David Niven) has been roaming his castle searching in vain for a brave descendant who will release him from the Canterville curse by performing a brave deed. An American family moves in and finds the ghost amusing, but a young girl in the family can release him - if she dares.