Georgy Girl | |
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Directed by | Silvio Narizzano |
Written by | Margaret Forster Peter Nichols |
Based on | Georgy Girl by Margaret Forster |
Produced by | Robert A. Goldston Otto Plaschkes |
Starring | James Mason Alan Bates Lynn Redgrave Charlotte Rampling |
Cinematography | Kenneth Higgins |
Edited by | John Bloom |
Music by | Alexander Faris |
Color process | Black and white |
Production company | Everglades Productions |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 99 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Budget | $400,000[1] |
Box office | $16.8 million[2] |
Georgy Girl is a 1966 British black-and-white romantic comedy film directed by Silvio Narizzano and starring Lynn Redgrave, Alan Bates, Charlotte Rampling, James Mason, and Rachel Kempson (Redgrave's mother).[3] It was written by Margaret Forster and Peter Nichols based on the 1965 novel Georgy Girl by Forster. The film tells the story of a virginal young woman in 1960s Swinging London, who is faced with a dilemma when she is pursued by her father's older employer and the young lover of her promiscuous, pregnant flatmate. Grossing $16.8 million, Georgy Girl was a box-office success, and it also spawned a hit theme song.