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Genres:
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Drama /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Richard Eyre
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Actors:
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Ben Chaplin,
Derek Hutchinson,
Mark Letheren,
Jack Kempton,
Claire Danes,
Billy Crudup,
Tom Wilkinson,
Hugh Bonneville,
Alice Eve,
Fenella Woolgar
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Duration:
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106 min.
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Rating:
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(7.1/10)88.5
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Plot Summary:
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Based in the 1660's of London's theatres, this haziness is back the rules of gender roles in coliseum production, and means to change them destined for everyone's benefit. Ned Kynaston is the pansy -dressing actor who has been playing female parts in plays for years, particularly Desdemona in Othello, he also has a alongside relationship with a man's co-actor. era anyway, the rules of solitary men playing women could change when aspiring actress Maria auditions as Kynaston's praised r“le, Desdemona, and soon ample, King Charles II decides to make the law that all female roles should be play... ed only nearby women. Maria becomes a star, while Ned finds himself out of run. But after a while, Ned finds it in his make-up to forgive Maria's aspiration, they may coequal fall in preference, and Charles may enunciate women will be played by either gender.Read more Less
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Stage Beauty
London's theatreland of the 1660s provides the backdrop fit this offbeat libidinous comedy drama from Iris guide Richard Eyre. The name of Ned Kynaston may have long since faded into insignificance, but, at a obsolescent when female roles were played by means of men, he was the theatre's most celebrated "matchless lady" — charming diarist Samuel Pepys, among others. Here, Kynaston (played near Billy Crudup) is at the pinnacle of his fame, oblivious to the romantic feelings of his dresser, Maria (Claire Danes), who reprises Kynaston's bringing off as Desdemona in an illicit production. When King Charles II (Rupert Everett), eager for novelty, proclaims that all female roles should be played only nigh women, Maria becomes a while Ned quickly finds himself out of u...
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