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The Lady in the Van is a 2015 British comedy-drama film directed by Nicholas Hytner, and starring Maggie Smith and Alex Jennings, based on the memoir of the same name created by Alan Bennett. It was written by Bennett, and it tells the (mostly [6] ) true story of his interactions with Mary Shepherd , an elderly woman who lived in a dilapidated ...
Feb 8, 2019 · This extraordinary true story would be chronicled several times by Bennett, after Miss Mary Shepherd, otherwise known as “the lady in the van,” passed away in 1989.
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Nov 13, 2015 · The film tells the true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’ parked her van in Bennett’s London...
Dec 12, 2015 · In the 1970s, Mary Shepherd parked her home (a van) on a street in an artsy London neighborhood. She was cranky, religious, profane and indomitable, and the neighbors muttered about her — but...
Nov 13, 2015 · The film tells the true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’ parked her van in Bennett’s London ...
Jan 8, 2016 · In fact, The Lady In The Van is an autobiography. Mary Shepherd was a very real person and she actually parked her van in playwright Alan Bennett's driveway for 15 years, from 1974-'89.
Jan 1, 2001 · The Lady in the Van is a true story by British author, Alan Bennett. Essentially, it is an account of his interactions, over some twenty years, with the elderly Miss Shepherd, a homeless woman whose van was parked, at first in his street opposite his house, then later, in his front garden.
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