Stage Beauty (Original title)Compleat Female Stage Beauty (Working title)
Dates: 2004 (Copyright), 03 September 2004 (Release)Countries: Germany, United Kingdom, USADirector: Richard Eyre
Synopsis: In 1661, a stage actor who plays leading ladies hears of a new law that forbids men to play women on stage. Depressed and seeing his career in tatters he begins drinking, but is brought back from despair by his dresser, Maria who goes about teaching him how to play a man again.
Genre: Drama
Subjects: Theatre, Acting, Cross-dressers
Releases
Date: 2004not specifiedRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Sound - Dolby / DTS (sound)Runtime: 110 mins Length: 9912 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: February 2019Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Colour - SoundRuntime: 110 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer
Film, Video or Digital materials held in BFI National Archive(1)
Video materials(1)
Description: Digital BetacamBFI identifier: N-231431
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved videotape
Dates: 2004 (Copyright), 03 September 2004 (Release)Countries: Germany, United Kingdom, USADirector: Richard Eyre
Synopsis: In 1661, a stage actor who plays leading ladies hears of a new law that forbids men to play women on stage. Depressed and seeing his career in tatters he begins drinking, but is brought back from despair by his dresser, Maria who goes about teaching him how to play a man again.
Genre: Drama
Subjects: Theatre, Acting, Cross-dressers
Releases
Date: 2004not specifiedRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Sound - Dolby / DTS (sound)Runtime: 110 mins Length: 9912 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: February 2019Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Colour - SoundRuntime: 110 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer
Film, Video or Digital materials held in BFI National Archive(1)
Video materials(1)
Description: Digital BetacamBFI identifier: N-231431
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved videotape