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As the closing feature of the 2005 St. Louis International Film Festival, "Mrs. Henderson Presents" was shown to a nearly full theatre. Coming from the United Kingdom, the film is not a drama nor is it a comedy. "Mrs. Henderson Presents" is best described as a "dramedy" mixed with a musical.
London, 1937. Mrs. Laura Henderson, a woman of wealth and connections, has just buried her beloved husband. And now she's bored. At 69, she is far too energetic and vital to fade into gentle widowhood. What she needs, says her friend Lady Conway, is a hobby. Collecting diamonds, perhaps? Or...
Mrs Henderson Presents is a 2005 biopic films directed by Stephen Frears and starring Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins, Kelly Reilly and Will Young. The film tells the true story of the Windmill Theatre in London. Eccentric 70-year-old widow and socialite …
Judi Dench is back again in Mrs. Henderson Presents (2005) playing a wealthy widow whose claim to fame late in her life was in owning a theatre that displayed vaudeville acts that were very scandalous in their day for having nude women stand as still as statues in the background of the sketches and songs.
Laura Henderson buys an old London theater and opens it up as the Windmill, a performance hall which goes down in history for, among other things, its all-nude revues.
Laura Henderson buys an old London theater and opens it up as the Windmill, a performance hall which goes down in history for, among other things, its all-nu...
Set in pre-World War II London, MRS. HENDERSON PRESENTS tells the remarkable true life story of one of England's most prominent and eccentric society figures, LAURA HENDERSON (Dench), who founded the historic Windmill Theatre. Driven by a desire to win back the dwindling music hall audiences who had been lured away by the advent of 'talking pictures', this charming lady and veritable force of ...
