STUDIOCANAL and the ICO are very pleased to announce that they will be bringing back to the big screen the underrated and long unseen WOMAN IN A DRESSING GOWN, a powerful and progressive drama that follows the turmoil caused when a husband of 20 years tells his wife he is leaving her for a younger woman.
Amy (Yvonne Mitchell, Queen of Spades, Tiger Bay, The Divided Heart) is a hopeless housewife - she burns meals, doesn't finish the housework, listens to the radio too loud, and some days doesn't event get around to getting dressed. By contrast her husband Jim (Anthony Quayle, Lawrence of Arabia, Ice Cold in Alex, The Eagle has Landed) is far more together, and still attractive. Jim has fallen in love with his young, beautiful secretary Georgie (Sylvia Syms, The Queen Victim, Ice Cold in Alex), and when he tells Amy he is leaving her, her already fragile world threatens to fall apart.
A heart-wrenching and accomplished drama, the power of WOMAN IN A DRESSING GOWN is in its refusal to demonize any of its principal characters - not Amy for her failure to maintain the family home, Jim for his infidelity, or Georgie for her role as the other woman. Writer Ted Willis described it simply as a film about "good honest fumbling people caught up in tiny tragedies".
WOMAN IN A DRESSING GOWN will released in cinemas on 27th July, and on DVD for the first time on 13th August 2012.
