Lillie: 4 Volume Gift Boxed Set

Starring:Francesca Annis, Anton Rodgers, Denis Lill, Peter Egan, Jennie Linden, Patrick Holt, Peggy Ann Wood, Julian Sherrier, Philip Anthony (II), Simon Shepherd, Jeffrey Wickham, Michael Haught, Wanda Moore, James Warwick (II), Anne Firbank, Deborah Watling, Barry Justice, Norwich Duff, David Healy, Jenny Laird
Director: Christopher Hodson, Tony Wharmby, John Gorrie
Studio: Goldhil Home Media
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
Amazon.com
The real Lillie Langtry (1853-1929) was the original Victorian supermodel and America's first "superstar." Inauspiciously born on the Isle of Jersey, Lillie began life as a small-town tomboy and went on to challenge Victorian society's attitudes toward women. Eventually sought after by painters, photographers, writers, and hostesses, the beautiful Lillie befriended Oscar Wilde, bedded the Prince of Wales, bore a daughter to Prince Louis of Battenburg, owned a California winery and winning racehorses, gained a British title, left a trail of broken hearts behind her wherever she went, and even had a town in Texas named after her. What the controversial Lillie did not gain through marriage, she earned as an actress and notable advertising figure who endorsed everything from soap and cigarettes to bustles.

Amazon.com

The real Lillie Langtry (1853-1929) was the original Victorian supermodel and America's first "superstar." Inauspiciously born on the Isle of Jersey, Lillie began life as a small-town tomboy and went on to challenge Victorian society's attitudes toward women. Eventually sought after by painters, photographers, writers, and hostesses, the beautiful Lillie befriended Oscar Wilde, bedded the Prince of Wales, bore a daughter to Prince Louis of Battenburg, owned a California winery and winning racehorses, gained a British title, left a trail of broken hearts behind her wherever she went, and even had a town in Texas named after her. What the controversial Lillie did not gain through marriage, she earned as an actress and notable advertising figure who endorsed everything from soap and cigarettes to bustles.

Customer Reviews:

Francesca Annis shines as Lillie!.......2007-04-19

I was very lucky to find this DVD set in my local library, and promptly checked all four discs out! The story follows the fortunes and travails of Lillie Langtry. Most well-known for having been the mistress of the Prince of Wales, Lillie as portrayed by Francesca Annis appears to be a strong, courageous woman who is not afraid to follow her own path in order to find some measure of happiness & success in her life. Definitely not conventional, she challenges the traditional role society imposes upon the women of her time, and breaks free of those conventions to make a lasting mark. As the blurb on the DVD goes "Lillie Langtry played by a new set of rules. Her own." Francesca Annis brings tremendous depth to her role as Lillie, lending an air of vulnerability tempered with a strong will. Her other performance that I was impressed by was in another period drama "Madame Bovary".

Lillie.......2006-11-28

Loved this story. Saw it on PBS when it was first shown. Wonderful acting. As it's based on actual events made it even better. Anyone who appreciates Oscar Wilde will love this. Whistler also appears.

Still waiting........2006-11-03

I HAVE NOT YET RECEIVED THIS ITEM BUT SAW THE ORIGINAL PRESENTATION ON MASTERPIECE THEATRE IN 1980 OR '81. I LOVED IT! I'M GIVING IT A 5-STAR RATING FOR THIS REASON. I CAN ONLY HOPE THE QUALITY OF THIS RECORDING IS EQUALLY IMPRESSIVE.

a delightfull period minseries.......2006-07-16

lillie langtry starts of as a tomboy living on the jersey isle but soons uses her beauty and intellegents to be the most sucessfull cover girl in engeland at the time.

Not the best of period pieces.......2005-08-28

I love the story and remember watching this series as a girl with my mother every week. But now, as I watch, it does seem stylistically 1970'ish in the way it is filmed- almost has a soap opera set feel to the whole series which is just something I find unfortunate. BUT if you find that doesn't bother you so much, then the story is really fabulous and the actors are all good (esp Oscar Wilde's portrayal). The costumes are quite good too.

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