Women in Love (1969) | |
| Director(s) | Ken Russell |
| Producer(s) | Roy Baird (associate), Larry Kramer, Martin Rosen |
| Top Genres | Drama, Film Adaptation, Romance |
| Top Topics | Book-Based, LBGT |
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Women in Love (1969) was a Drama - Romance Film directed by Ken Russell and produced by Martin Rosen, Larry Kramer and Roy Baird.
Academy Awards 1970 --- Ceremony Number 43 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Actress | Glenda Jackson | Won |
| Best Cinematography | Billy Williams | Nominated |
| Best Director | Ken Russell | Nominated |
| Best Writing | Larry Kramer | Nominated |
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The Classic Film Collective: Career Women in Love: Ex-Lady (1933), The First Hundred Years (1938) and Woman of the Year (1942)
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Quotes from
Hermione Roddice:
Perhaps it's better to die than to live mechanically... a life that's repetition of repetition.
Rupert Birkin: I want the finality of love.
Rupert Birkin: It almost breaks my heart. My beloved country. It had something to express, even when it made this chair. Now all we can do is to fish amongst rubbish heaps... for remnants of the old expression. There's no production in us anymore... just sordid and foul mechanicalness.
Ursula Brangwen: I hate your past. I'm sick of it.
Rupert Birkin: Not as sick as I am of the accursed present.
Ursula Brangwen: Well, I don't want the past to take its place. I don't want old things.
Rupert Birkin: The truth is, we don't want things at all. The thought of a house and furniture of my own is hateful to me.
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Rupert Birkin: I want the finality of love.
Rupert Birkin: It almost breaks my heart. My beloved country. It had something to express, even when it made this chair. Now all we can do is to fish amongst rubbish heaps... for remnants of the old expression. There's no production in us anymore... just sordid and foul mechanicalness.
Ursula Brangwen: I hate your past. I'm sick of it.
Rupert Birkin: Not as sick as I am of the accursed present.
Ursula Brangwen: Well, I don't want the past to take its place. I don't want old things.
Rupert Birkin: The truth is, we don't want things at all. The thought of a house and furniture of my own is hateful to me.
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Facts about
Some of the characters in this movie, and the novel it's based on, are based on real-life people, mostly members of the "Bloomsbury Group" which whom D. H. Lawrence was acquainted. For example, Loerke was based on painter Mark Gertler, and Hermione is a very unflattering portrait of Lady Ottoline Morrell, who was upset over this novel that she ended her friendship with Lawrence and never spoke to him again.
Glenda Jackson was pregnant throughout the shoot. In referring to her nude scenes, she said she'd never had such a "wonderful bosom."
According to director Ken Russell, the film is set in the year 1920, just two years after the end of World War I.
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Glenda Jackson was pregnant throughout the shoot. In referring to her nude scenes, she said she'd never had such a "wonderful bosom."
According to director Ken Russell, the film is set in the year 1920, just two years after the end of World War I.
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