Leslie Caron
Jane Fosset
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A 27-year-old French woman, Jane Fosset, arrives alone at a run down boarding house in Notting Hill, London, moving into an L-shaped room in the attic. Beautiful but withdrawn, she encounters the residents of her house, each a social outsider in his or her own way, including a gay, black trumpeter.
The L-Shaped Room is a 1960 British novel by Lynne Reid Banks which tells the story of a young woman, unmarried and pregnant, who moves into a London boarding house, befriending a young man in the building. It was adapted into a film, with significant differences from the novel, by Bryan Forbes.
- Lynne Reid Banks
- 1960
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Jane (Leslie Caron) is young, French, pregnant and unmarried. Bucking convention, she is uninterested in settling with her baby's father or getting an abortion. After renting a room in a dingy ...
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- Leslie Caron
- Bryan Forbes
- Drama
The L-Shaped Room: Directed by Bryan Forbes. With Leslie Caron, Anthony Booth, Avis Bunnage, Patricia Phoenix. A single, pregnant woman moves into a London boarding house where she meets a group of fellow misfits.
- Xstal
- 3 min
- Bryan Forbes
Outraged, Toby leaves, and Jane, in a moment of despair, tries to kill her baby by taking some pills given to her by Mavis, the elderly actress who lives downstairs. But the abortion attempt fails, and Jane accepts with relief the fact that her baby will live.
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Apr 30, 2020 · One of the great British films of the early 1960's, this film belongs with a collection or movement known as Kitchen sink dramas. Gritty, honest, engaging and deeply satisfying. Starring Leslie ...
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