![]() I am happy to say, it was a big hit with me! While this is based on a real icon, Louise Brooks, the story is fictionalized but the tale will leave you wanting to know more (in a good way!). My Thoughts: First of all, I need to say that not only am I a Downton fan but I absolutely LOVE the author Lianne Moriarity! That being said, I would have been stunned if I didn’t enjoy this film. The film also stars Campbell Scott, Géza Röhrig, Miranda Otto, Robert Fairchild, and Blythe Danner. Why does this utterly conventional woman do this? What happens to her when she lands in Manhattan with an unusually rebellious teenager as her ward? And, which of the two women is stronger, the uptight wife-and-mother or the irrepressible free spirit? It’s a story full of surprises-about who these women really are, and who they eventually become.īased on Laura Moriarty’s beloved New York Times best-selling novel, MASTERPIECE FILMS’ first theatrical release The Chaperone reunites the writer (Academy Award®-winner Julian Fellowes), director (Michael Engler) and star (Academy Award® nominee Elizabeth McGovern) of Downton Abbey for an immersive and richly emotional period piece. Norma Carlisle (Elizabeth McGovern, Downton Abbey), a local society matron who never broke a rule in her life, impulsively volunteers to accompany Louise (Haley Lu Richardson) to New York for the summer. When the opportunity arises for her to go to New York to study with a leading dance troupe, her mother (Victoria Hill) insists there be a chaperone. But, just a few years earlier, she was a 15 year-old student in Wichita, Kansas for whom fame and fortune were only dreams. Louise Brooks, the 1920s silver screen sensation who never met a rule she didn’t break, epitomized the restless, reckless spirit of the Jazz Age. PBS’s “The Chaperone” is from the creators of Downton and is sure to fill the void that D.A. Ok, Downton Abbey fans, I have a great new movie for you that is right up your alley.
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