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The Dresser (1983)
An effeminate personal assistant of a deteriorating veteran actor struggles to get him through a difficult performance of King Lear.
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Director:
Peter YatesWriters:
Ronald Harwood (screenplay), Ronald Harwood (based on a play by)All Cast & Crew
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Ronald Harwood based his play "The Dresser", and this film's subsequent screenplay, on the the biography "Sir Donald Wolfit CBE: His life and work in the Unfashionable Theatre", and on his own experiences as an actor and dresser for renowned Shakespearian actor Donald Wolfit. Harwood's ... ...
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There are thousands of children all over this beloved land of ours, scavenging the larders for something sweet. If only they came to me, I could tell them of the one person in England who has an inexhaustible supply of chocolate. It is I who have to...
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After Sir and Norman leave the marketplace, they're passed by a Routemaster bus. These buses were first used in London in 1954, and weren't used outside London until the 1970's.
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Release Date:
6 December 1983Language
English
Country of Origin
UKBox Office
Opening Weekend:
$43,132 (USA) (11 December 1983)
Gross:
$5,310,748 (USA)
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