#Caroline Langrishe

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Play for Today: The Flipside of Dominick Hide (BBC, 1980)

"Complacent with your mission, Dominick? Amusing, the history of transport. We've made a modicum of progress: trips are regulated to microseconds, punctuality taken for granted."

"Yes."

"Why then were you two minutes late on your double return? Machine fault?"

"No. I'm sorry."

"I accept apology. Reason?"

"It was raining. Rain slows everything. I saw an old woman knocked down and I was checking how long before help reached her. The medi-car was blocked in progress, I think she died."

"So?"

"I thought it might be interesting."

"People are not your conspectus, Dominick. If you wish to study people, watch old films."

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Caroline Langrishe

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Tremors: Shrieker Island

Benvenuti o bentornati sul nostro blog. Nello scorso articolo abbiamo deciso di cambiare momentaneamente argomento e passare al mondo dei fumetti, continuando con la saga fantasy italiana che ormai conoscete bene, Kalya e per la precisione il volume 10. Dopo essere usciti dalla città gjaldest, Kalya e il suo gruppo continuano il loro viaggio ma Aridan è ferito e le sue condizioni si stanno…

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Caroline Langrishe, a.k.a. Isabella Linton in the 1978 BBC miniseries of Wuthering Heights (the most book-accurate adaptation of that hard-to-film novel to date), and nephew Fred's wife Janet in the 184 George C. Scott version of A Christmas Carol.

costume appreciation post: cosette

les misérables (1978), played by caroline langrishe (adult) and joanna price (child)

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Les Misérables - CBS - December 27, 1978

Drama

Running Time: 150 minutes

Stars:

Richard Jordan as Jean Valjean

Anthony Perkins as Javert

Angela Pleasence as Fantine

Caroline Langrishe as Cosette

Joanna Price as young Cosette

Christopher Guard as Marius

Ian Holm as Thénardier

Caroline Blakiston as Madame Thénardier

Timothy Morand as Enjolras

Dexter Fletcher as Gavroche

Cyril Cusack as Fauchelevent

Claude Dauphin as Bishop Myriel

John Gielgud as Gillenormand

Celia Johnson as Sister Simplice

Joyce Redman as Magliore

Flora Robson as The Prioress

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Actors who have appeared in both "Wuthering Heights" and "A Christmas Carol" adaptations

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*Leo G. Carroll: Marley’s Ghost in the 1938 Reginald Owen Christmas Carol/Joseph in the 1939 Wuthering Heights

*Patrick Macnee: Edgar in the 1948 British TV Wuthering Heights/Young Marley in the 1951 Alastair Sim Scrooge

*Caroline Langrishe: Isabella in the 1978 BBC Wuthering Heights miniseries/Fred’s wife Janet in the 1984 George C. Scott Christmas Carol

*Cathryn Harrison: Catherine Linton in the 1978 BBC Wuthering Heights miniseries/Fred’s sister-in-law Kate ('the plump sister") in the 1984 George C. Scott Christmas Carol

*Charlotte Riley: Catherine Earnshaw in the 2009 Wuthering Heights miniseries/The Ghost of Christmas Present and Scrooge’s sister Lottie in the 2019 Guy Pearce Christmas Carol miniseries

*Andrew Lincoln: Edgar in the 2009 Wuthering Heights miniseries/Scrooge in the 2020 Old Vic Christmas Carol production shown in cinemas

*Dave Willetts: Heathcliff on the concept album of Bernard J. Taylor’s 1992 Wuthering Heights musical/one of the charity gentlemen in the 2004 Christmas Carol TV musical

Since both of these books are classic works of British literature, I'm honestly surprised that between all the adaptations, there haven't been more overlapping actors.

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Source: the San Bernardine Sun, 25 December 1978 Wild to learn about the reach of the March/Laughton film from ‘35. Also this article is so funny to me because they can no longer just say Cosette, Fantine,  or Marius and assume that the reader knows who they mean so they end up saying Valjean’s ward, Valjean’s ward’s mother, and Valjean’s ward’s lover and other round about things.  Also I read in a later article that the program “drew 38 percent of the national audience, according to the Neilsen ratings, and was the week's highest-rated special.” But overall it was ninth in the week for ratings, tied with a rerun of MASH.

HOLLYWOOD  — If Victor Hugo was alive today he'd be one of the most sought-after writers by television network presidents. His stories contain all the elements deemed necessary to make a film or series successful. Most notable example is Hugo's "Les Miserables," written in 1862. Inspired by the French people seeking freedom from oppression, he wrote the now-classic tale of an impoverished man, Jean Valjean, who steals a loaf of bread to feed his starving family, and that act of survival sets off a chain reaction that includes drama, adventure, jeopardy, love, hatred and, above all, the action of the chase. CBS has picked the middle of what is usually considered an "off-week," the period between Christmas and New Year's Day when people are too preoccupied with holiday festivities to watch TV, to show the latest version of "Les Miserables," the Norman Rosemont Production in association with ITC Entertainment which occupies all three hours of CBS' prime-time programming Wednesday. It's CBS' gift-wrapped treat amid the rubble of reruns. The family that takes time out to relax from Yuletide activities will thoroughly enjoy a class production filmed in France and England in authentic surroundings that look as though no stone has been dislodged from its place since Hugo described its locale in his drama. Richard Jordan portrays Valjean, whose life is to be dogged by his obsessed pursuer, Inspector Javert, played by Anthony Perkins. As with his other revivals of the classics, "The Count of Monte Cristo," "The Man in the Iron Mask" and "The Four Feathers," all produced for both TV and theatrical release, Norman Rosemont has populated the cast with distinguished veteran actors. In his last performance, Claude Dauphin, who died recently, is seen as the kindly bishop who befriends Valjean. Sir John Gielgud is an elderly aristocrat. Celia Johnson is Valjean's housekeeper. Flora Robson is the head of a convent. Cyril Cusak is the convent's groundskeeper who provides brief refuge for the prison-escaping Valjean. Ian Holm is a greedy innkeeper. Joyce Redman is the bishop's housekeeper. 

Two young British newcomers, Caroline Langrishe and Christopher Guard, were chosen to play Valjean's pretty ward and the grandson of Gielgud. And Angela Pleasance is the beggar woman who further impedes Valjean's escape by entrusting her daughter (Langrishe) to his care. 

Of the many films on Hugo's classic (Jean Gavin as Valjean in the 1952 French movie; Gino Cervi in a 1943 Italian feature; Michael Rennie in a 1952 TV kinescope), the 1952 Warner Bros, movie with Frederic March and Charles Laughton is best remembered. 

Who can forget Laughton's Javert, having finally cornered Valjean (March) in a Paris sewer after his three-decade pursuit, shouting "The law is the law!" although, he, like Valjean, is aged and weary of this senseless pursuit. Did the specter of Laughton's dominating performance lurk in the background of this 1978 version? "No, not really," replied Glenn Jordan, who directed the $3 million production. "I saw the Laughton version twice and found very little I could use. One of the few things I thought interesting and useful was that Laughton played an eccentric. So I had Tony play it eccentrically, but in an entirely different way.

"Laughton was always Laughton in the end, not the characters he portrayed. I felt it was important to be the character Hugo intended because, after all, a lot of people have never seen those other versions or ever read the book." 

[Glenn] Jordan, who won an Emmy for the Ben Franklin specials on TV, among other citations for notable TV and stage productions, says that [Richard] Jordan, who first gained attention in TV's "The Captains and the Kings," and Perkins are much closer to the characters Hugo described in his lengthy novel. "I remember March and Laughton as being too old for their roles. They didn't really age as much as people would in real life, especially people who went through what they did. We assume Hugo's characters were about the same age in the beginning. The imprisonment period is 20 years, then a jump of five years passes, then it's 10 years more. [Really? March is such a young Jean Valjean]  "That's why it was important to cast young men who could age (via make-up and character change), rather than start out with older actors in those roles." Redoing the classics has bothered some purists who prefer to let the original versions stand on their merits. But Glenn Jordan has valid reasons for remaking a classic such as this. "The social problems of poverty and justice vs. justice, these are things, I think that are self-explanatory," he said. "But the human problems, the relations between the people are the most interesting because, it seems to me, that when you redo a classic you have to make it vivid for today's audience. "When you see older versions of such stories they are very much versions of their time and reflect the thinking of their time, including the style in which they were done." By PAUL HENMGER Gannett News Service

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Actors who appear in adaptations of both "Les Misérables" and "A Christmas Carol"

Because of course there's some overlap. Just for fun I thought I’d list them.

Fredric March: Jean Valjean in the 1935 Hollywood film/Scrooge in the 1954 TV Christmas Carol

Frank Finlay: Jean Valjean in the 1967 BBC miniseries/Marley’s Ghost in the 1984 TV Christmas Carol with George C. Scott

Angela Pleasance: Fantine in the 1978 British film/The Ghost of Christmas Past in the 1984 TV Christmas Carol with George C. Scott

Caroline Langrishe: Cosette in the 1978 British film/nephew Fred’s wife Janet in the 1984 TV Christmas Carol with George C. Scott

Meredith Braun: Éponine in the London and UK Tour productions of the musical, 1992-93/Belle in The Muppet Christmas Carol, 1992

Dominic West: Jean Valjean in the 2018 BBC miniseries/nephew Fred in the 1999 TV Christmas Carol with Patrick Stewart

Fra Fee: Courfeyrac in the 2012 musical film/voice of nephew Fred (or rather Harry, as he’s renamed) in the 2022 animated Scrooge: A Christmas Carol

Olivia Colman: Mme. Thénardier in the 2018 BBC miniseries/voice of the Ghost of Christmas Past in the 2022 animated Scrooge: A Christmas Carol

Johnny Flynn: Félix Tholomyés in the 2018 BBC miniseries/voice of Bob Cratchit in the 2022 animated Scrooge: A Christmas Carol

And 2004's A Christmas Carol: The Musical features many veterans from productions of Les Mis on the West End stage.

Claire Moore (Mrs. Fezziwig): Fantine in 1993, Mme. Thénardier in 2006

Ruthie Henshall (Scrooge's mother): Fantine in 1992 and in the 1995 10th Anniversary Concert

Linzi Hately (Mrs. Cratchit): Éponine in 1988 (and the prerecorded voice of Éponine’s scream from then on), Mme. Thénardier in 2012, and a “Turning” woman in the 2012 film

Gay Soper (Charwoman #1 at the Royal Exchange): Mme. Thénardier in 1988 and on the Complete Symphonic Recording

Jenny Galloway (Charwoman #2 at the Royal Exchange): Mme. Thénardier many times

Dave Willetts (one of the charity solicitors): Jean Valjean in London 1988-1993, and in Australia, 1997-1998

There are more too (if I'm not mistaken, the actor who plays Young Marley was understudying Marius in London at the time), but these are all the names I can think of.

And two more indirect Christmas Carol connections from the 1967 BBC Les Misérables:

Michele Dotrice (Fantine): wife of Edward Woodward, the Ghost of Christmas Present in the 1984 TV Christmas Carol with George C. Scott.

Eileen Moore (Mme. Victurnien): wife of George Cole, Young Scrooge in the 1951 Scrooge with Alastair Sim

If anyone can think of any more, please let me know!

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Am I the only one who thinks this photo of Jemma Redgrave and Caroline Langrishe for the 1995 BBC Radio 2 adaptation of Joanna Trollope’s A Spanish Lover looks really, really gay? It’s as if they’re posing for an engagement photo or something!

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W A T C H I N G

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Horror Movie Review: Tremors: Shrieker Island (2020)

Got Graboid problems? Who are you going to call? Why Burt Gummer of course!

This franchise is beginning to look a bit tired now and come the end of this 7th instalment, you get the impression that everyone is ready to move on. Tremors: Shrieker Island is the latest in the Tremors series of movies, the first considered a cult classic and released way back in 1990. Since then we’ve had a ton of sequels with varying results in regard to quality. There are some enjoyable…

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I only just learned that she was Rex Harrison’s granddaughter.

And she appears in a small role in the George C. Scott Christmas Carol as Fred’s sister-in-law (the character Dickens calls "the plump sister"), with Caroline Langrishe, who played her aunt Isabella in this Wuthering Heights, as her sister, Fred’s wife.

Cathryn Harrison as Catherine Linton in Wuthering Heights (1978)

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Bad movie I have Tremors: Shrieker Island 2020

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Tremors: Shrieker Island (2020) preview with first trailer

Tremors: Shrieker Island (2020) preview with first trailer

Tremors: Shrieker Island is a 2020 American science-fiction horror feature film about genetically modified monsters on the attack: Graboids, Ass Blasters, and Shriekers!

Directed by Don Michael Paul (Death Race 4: Beyond Anarchy; Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell; Tremors 5: Bloodlines; Lake Placid: The Final Chapter) from a screenplay written by Brian Brightly.

The Universal Home Entertainment…

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Judith Krantz’s Mistral’s Daughter -  CBS  -  September 24, 1984 - October 1, 1984

Drama Miniseries (8 episodes)

Running Time:  390 minutes total

Stars:

Stefanie Powers as Magali 'Maggy' Lunel

Lee Remick as Katherine 'Kate' Browning

Stacy Keach as Julien Mistral

Robert Urich as Jason Darcy

Timothy Dalton as Perry Kilkullen

Stéphane Audran as Paula Deslandes

Ian Richardson as Adrien Avigdor

Stephanie Dunnam as Theodora 'Teddy' Lunel

Cotter Smith as Melvin 'Falk' Allenberg

Pierre Malet as Eric Avigdor

Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu as Fauve Mistral

Co-starring

Alexandra Stewart as Mary Jane Kilkullen

Joanna Lumley as Lally Longbridge

Caroline Langrishe as Nadine

Jonathan Hyde as Philippe, Nadine's husband

Angela Thorne as Nanny Butterfield

Wolf Kahler as Major Schmidt

Michael Gough as Cardinal

Françoise Brion as Patricia Falkland

Shane Rimmer as Harry Klein

Victor Spinetti as Alberto Bianchi

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Character ask: Fred, Scrooge's nephew ("A Christmas Carol")

Tagged by anonymous.

Favorite thing about them: How friendly, joyful, and kind he is, and how he always reaches out to Scrooge and sympathizes with him despite being rejected, and wholeheartedly forgives and embraces him in the end.

Least favorite thing about them: Nothing in particular... Maybe the implication in Christmas Yet to Come that if Scrooge had never repented, even Fred would have left him to die alone and be buried in a grim neglected churchyard. But I suppose that (a) in that timeline, Fred might not even have been informed of his uncle's illness or death until it was too late to do anything, or (b) after so many years of being rejected, it's only human to finally give up. And at least it never happens, because Scrooge does repent.

Three things I have in common with them:

*I love Christmas.

*I enjoy parties.

*I try to be generous and kind to everyone.

Three things I don't have in common with them:

*I'm not married.

*I'm female.

*All my uncles are loving and friendly.

Favorite line: There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say, Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round—apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that—as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!

brOTP: Topper and his other friends at the Christmas party, and Scrooge after his redemption.

OTP: His wife.

nOTP: Scrooge.

Random headcanon: His wife is pregnant during the main storyline – I've heard it suggested that Dickens meant to discreetly imply this when he wrote that she rested in a chair and footstool instead of joining in the blindman's-buff game at the party. Their baby will be a girl, named Frances after Fred's mother Fan, and Scrooge will be the most adoring great-uncle.

Unpopular opinion: I don't think I have one.

Song I associate with them: These two songs from the 1956 musical The Stingiest Man in Town, both sung by Johnny Desmond.

"An Old-Fashioned Christmas"

"The Birthday Party of the King"

And "I Love Christmas" from Scrooge: A Christmas Carol.

Favorite pictures of them:

Robert Cochran in the 1935 film Scrooge (I wish I could find a better picture, though, because he's one of the handsomest Freds of all):

Barry MacKay in the 1938 MGM film:

Brian Worth in the 1951 film Scrooge:

Michael Medwin in the 1970 musical Scrooge:

Donald Duck in Mickey's Christmas Carol, 1983:

Roger Rees in the 1984 TV film, with George C. Scott and Caroline Langrishe:

Steven Mackintosh in The Muppet Christmas Carol, 1992:

Dominic West in the 1999 TV film:

Julian Ovenden in A Christmas Carol: The Musical, 2004:

Motion-captured Colin Firth in Disney's 2009 CGI film: