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Oscar Wilde: Directed by Gregory Ratoff. With Robert Morley, Ralph Richardson, Phyllis Calvert, John Neville. Playwright Oscar Wilde's homosexuality is exposed when he brings a libel action against his lover's father, leading to his own prosecution.
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- Biography, Drama, History
- Gregory Ratoff
- 1960-05
Oscar Wilde is a 1960 biographical film about Oscar Wilde, made by Vantage Films and released by 20th Century Fox. The film was directed by Gregory Ratoff and produced by William Kirby, from a screenplay by Jo Eisinger , based on the play Oscar Wilde by Leslie Stokes and Sewell Stokes .
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde[ a] (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his ...
Nov 26, 2022 · Oscar Wilde (1960) and The Trials of Oscar Wilde ... Director Oliver Parker’s apparent Wilde fixation continues, but in a different direction.
- Stephen Arnell
May 1, 1998 · Wilde: Directed by Brian Gilbert. With Stephen Fry, Jude Law, Vanessa Redgrave, Jennifer Ehle. The turmoil in poet/playwright Oscar Wilde's life after he discovers his homosexuality.
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- Biography, Drama, Romance
- Brian Gilbert
- 1998-05-01
Wilde. (film) Wilde is a 1997 British biographical romantic drama film directed by Brian Gilbert. The screenplay, written by Julian Mitchell, is based on Richard Ellmann 's 1987 biography of Oscar Wilde. It stars Stephen Fry in the title role, with Jude Law, Vanessa Redgrave, Jennifer Ehle, Gemma Jones, Judy Parfitt, Michael Sheen, Zoë ...
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One of the best is the simply titled Oscar Wilde, directed by Gregory Ratoff and starring two excellent actors: Robert Morley as the protagonist and the great Ralph Richardson as Sir Edward Carson, the British barrister who defended the Marquis of Queensberry against a charge of criminal libel that Wilde aimed at him in an 1872 lawsuit.
