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  1. Sep 4, 2008 · Based on Amanda Foreman’s 1998 best-selling biography, “Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire,” the film concentrates on only about 10 years in Georgiana’s life, starting with her arranged ...

    • Barbara Kantrowitz
  2. Sep 18, 2008 · Based on a true story, as they say in the movies, the tale traces the cosseted, tightly corseted late-18th-century life of Georgiana Spencer, the Duchess of Devonshire, one of those gilded-cage ...

    • Saul Dibb
  3. Sep 25, 2008 · 110 minutes ‧ PG-13 ‧ 2008. Roger Ebert. September 25, 2008. 4 min read. Georgiana (Keira Knightley) is "The Duchess." Much is made in Britain of the fact that Georgiana, the Duchess of Devonshire (1757-1806) was the great-great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales. I wouldn’t know where to start in counting my own great-great ...

  4. Oct 10, 2024 · Directed by Edward Berger. This film, based on Robert Harris’s 2016 thriller of the same title, centers on a British cardinal (a sensational Ralph Fiennes), and a campaign for a new pope. By ...

  5. www.pluggedin.com › movie-reviews › duchessThe Duchess - Plugged In

    On June 6, 1774, one day shy of her 18th birthday, Georgiana Spencer married William Cavendish, the 5th Duke of Devonshire. Based on Amanda Foreman’s biography, The Duchess recounts Georgiana’s story, a dramatic but tragic tale of one woman’s public adulation and searing private pain. A flicker of promise gets things going as Georgiana ...

    • Saul Dibb
  6. The Duchess (film) The Duchess. (film) The Duchess is a 2008 historical drama film directed by Saul Dibb, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jeffrey Hatcher and Anders Thomas Jensen, based on the 1998 book Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman, about the late 18th-century English aristocrat Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire.

  7. The Duchess: Directed by Saul Dibb. With Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Charlotte Rampling, Dominic Cooper. A chronicle of the life of 18th-century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was revered for her extravagant political and personal life.

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