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About
In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser - is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the London Blitz. The pathos of his backstage efforts rival the pathos in the story of Lear and the Fool that is being presented on-stage, as the situation comes to a crisis.
Theatrical
Dec 6, 1983
DVD / Blu-ray
Apr 6, 2004
Theaters
2
Director
Writer
Producers
Music
Studio
Columbia Pictures
Cast
Full credits →A
Albert Finney
Sir
T
Tom Courtenay
Norman
E
Edward Fox
Oxenby
Z
Zena Walker
Her Ladyship
E
Eileen Atkins
Madge
M
Michael Gough
Frank Carrington
C
Cathryn Harrison
Irene
B
Betty Marsden
Violet Manning
S
Sheila Reid
Lydia Gibson
L
Lockwood West
Geoffrey Thornton
D
Donald Eccles
Mr. Godstone
L
Llewellyn Rees
Horace Brown
G
Guy Manning
Benton
A
Anne Blackman
Beryl
K
Kevin Stoney
C. Rivers Lane
A
Ann Way
Miss White
J
John Sharp
Mr. Bottomley
K
Kathy Staff
Bombazine Woman
R
Roger Avon
Charles
S
Stuart Richman
Evelyn's Friend
