Nancy Astor - Entire Series - 3-DVD Set ( Masterpiece Theatre: Nancy Astor )

Nancy Astor - Complete Series - 3-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Masterpiece Theatre: Nancy Astor
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Emmy Awards
Golden Globes

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2&4 )

Running Time:
435 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
3-DVD Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1982 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Richard Stroud

Written By:
Derek Marlowe

Actors:
Victoria Burgoyne ..... Lucy (1 episode, 1982)
Joe Praml ..... Col. Newbourne (1 episode, 1982)
David Riley ..... Hotel Manager (1 episode, 1982)
Lisa Harrow ..... Nancy Astor (unknown episodes)
Dan O'Herlihy ..... Chiswell 'Chillie' Langhorne (unknown episodes)
Sylvia Syms ..... Nanaire Langthorne (unknown episodes)
Lise Hilboldt ..... Brand / ... (unknown episodes)
Pierce Brosnan ..... Robert 'Bob' Gould Shaw (unknown episodes)
James Fox ..... Waldorf Astor (unknown episodes)
Julian Glover ..... Lord Revelstoke (unknown episodes)
Nigel Havers ..... Bobby Shaw (unknown episodes)
Annabelle Lanyon ..... Nancy as a girl (unknown episodes)
Neil McCarthy ..... Reverend Neve (unknown episodes)
Lillian Silverstone ..... Irene (unknown episodes)
Dallas Adams ..... Dana Gibson (unknown episodes)
William Hope ..... Harry (unknown episodes)
Kathleen Byron ..... Edith Cunard (unknown episodes)
Daniel Chatto ..... Billy Grenfell (unknown episodes)
T.P. McKenna ..... Lord Curzon (unknown episodes)
Charles Dance ..... Edward Hartford-Jones (unknown episodes)
David Warner ..... Philip Kerr (unknown episodes)
Robert Arden ..... Quincy Shaw (unknown episodes)
Sue Bishop ..... Mrs. Keppel (unknown episodes)
Bernard Brown ..... Robert Brand (unknown episodes)
Alex Bullion ..... Young Bobby (unknown episodes)
James Campbell ..... Bill Astor (I) (unknown episodes)
Val Clover ..... Adele Essex (unknown episodes)
Lynn Farleigh ..... Mary Convers (unknown episodes)
Marsha Fitzalan ..... Wissie Astor (unknown episodes)
Alan Gifford ..... William Waldorf Astor (unknown episodes)
Brian Hawksley ..... Lloyd George (unknown episodes)
Julian Holloway ..... Cust (unknown episodes)
Richard Huggett ..... Edward VII (unknown episodes)
Jasper Jacob ..... Michael (unknown episodes)
Rosalind Knight ..... Margot Asquith (unknown episodes)
Isabelle Lucas ..... Aunt Liza (unknown episodes)
Paul McDowell ..... Lee (unknown episodes)
Steve Meek ..... Esmond (unknown episodes)
John Paul ..... Balfour (unknown episodes)
Robert Perceval ..... Horatio Bottomley (unknown episodes)
Graham Pountney ..... Naish (unknown episodes)
Robert Raglan ..... (unknown episodes)
Duncan Royce ..... Bill Astor (II) (unknown episodes)
Carol Shaw ..... Curzon's mistress (unknown episodes)
Jana Shelden ..... Lizzie (unknown episodes)
Michael Wells ..... Gordon Cunard (unknown episodes)
Fraser Wilson ..... Henry Douglas-Pennant (unknown episodes)
David Yelland ..... David Astor (unknown episodes)

Synopsis:

A lavish nine-part series about the life and times of the child born Nancy Langhorne in Danville, Virginia, on 19th May 1879 who would become the first woman to take her seat in the House of Commons, introduce a Private Member's Bill that raised to 18 the age qualification for buying alcohol and vote against the Government in May 1940 - helping Winston Churchill to become Prime Minister. More than just a biography of the first ever woman to sit in the House of Commons, this epic series on the life of Nancy Astor is a compelling story of rags to riches, romance and heartache. A story that begins in post-civil war Virginia follows Nancy through a disastrous teenage marriage to an arrogant and conceited playboy and finds her divorced and a single mother by the time she is 24. Only a move to England offers a way out of her misery. Witty and charming, Nancy became the focus for the country's most eligible bachelors, including the man she takes as her second husband, Waldorf Astor, one of the richest men in the world. Moving into the lavish stately home, Cliveden, Nancy enjoys life as a prominent hostess for the social elite, but when Astor surrenders his seat in the Commons for a place in the Lords, a door opens that will seal Nancy's place in history forever.

The life and times of Britain's first female Member of Parliament are dramatically chronicled in this British miniseries. Lisa Harrow stars as Virginia-born Nancy Langhorne, who married into American aristocracy when she became the wife of the wealthy, influential, and chronically unfaithful Robert Gould Shaw (Pierce Brosnan). Although this union, and her later marriage to William Waldorf Astor (James Fox), could have easily permitted her to live the life of a pampered dowager, Nancy chose instead to follow her second husband's lead by entering politics, championing causes that were "unpopular" with her own social set, but which endeared her to the poor, downtrodden, and disenfranchised. Highlights of this nine-part miniseries included Lady Astor's ongoing prickly relationships with such political foes as Winston Churchill, her personal travails with her bibulous son, Bobby (Nigel Havers), and her famous query to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin: "When are you going to stop killing people?" First broadcast by BBC2 from February 10 to April 7, 1982, Nancy Astor subsequently aired in America (this time as an eight-parter) as a component of the PBS anthology Masterpiece Theatre beginning April 15, 1984.

Virginia-born Lady Astor is the first woman to sit in Parliament. Her outspokenness in unpopular causes leaves her open to heartbreak, public and private.

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