Lady Caroline Lamb (film)

Lady Caroline Lamb
Theatrical release poster, artwork by Ted CoConis
Directed byRobert Bolt
Written byRobert Bolt
Produced byFranco Cristaldi
Fernando Ghia
Bernard Williams
StarringSarah Miles
Jon Finch
Richard Chamberlain
Laurence Olivier
CinematographyOswald Morris
Edited byNorman Savage
Music byRichard Rodney Bennett
Production
company
Pulsar Productions
Distributed byMGM-EMI (UK)
United Artists (US)
Release date
  • 22 November 1972 (1972-11-22)
Running time
123 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget$3,500,000[1] or £2 million[2]

Lady Caroline Lamb is a 1972 British epic romantic drama film based on the life of Lady Caroline Lamb, novelist, sometime lover of Lord Byron and wife of politician William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (later Prime Minister). The only film written and directed by Robert Bolt, it starred his wife, Sarah Miles,[3] as Lady Caroline, Jon Finch, Richard Chamberlain, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, John Mills, Margaret Leighton and Michael Wilding.

  1. ^ "The wayward lady". The Australian Women's Weekly. Vol. 40, no. 34. Australia. 24 January 1973. p. 16. Retrieved 26 November 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ Owen, Michael (17 September 1971). "That's no lady that's my mad wife!". Evening Standard. p. 22.
  3. ^ John A. Wagner (25 February 2014). Voices of Victorian England: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life. ABC-CLIO. p. 199. ISBN 978-0-313-38689-3.