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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.
Feb 20, 2019 · The film’s marketing campaign drew flack at the time for pushing the rather tenuous link between Georgiana and Princess Diana, though they were both lambs to the slaughter in their marriages, and both won and lost in the court of public opinion as they battled for their freedoms. At times it becomes heavy-handed in its attempts at allusion.
- 2008
- Saul Dibb
- Drama | Historical | True Story
The Duchess of Devonshire, Georgiana Spencer (Keira Knightley), was a direct ancestor to Princess Diana. And, like the People's Princess, was glamorous and adored by the common hoard...
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Georgiana and Eliza. Perhaps the most heartbreaking scene in The Duchess shows Knightley as Georgiana, about to give up her illegitimate baby daughter, Eliza, fathered by Charles Grey, after spending her pregnancy in the company of Bess Foster in seclusion in the countryside. She hands Eliza over to Grey’s family at a pre-arranged remote spot.
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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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 ...
