Leave All Fair (1985)
John Middleton Murry visits France to finalize the publication of a collection of his late wife, Katherine Mansfield's, letters and journals. The publisher's girlfriend Marie (who physically resembles Mansfield) and Murry become friends. Marie gradually learns that Murry not only profited greatly from his publication of Mansfield's writings, but that as her editor he sacrificed the real Mansfield to his own romantic dream, and even that he published her letters and journals against her expressed wishes.
Director:
John Reid
Writers:
Maurice Pons, Stanley Harper, Jean Betts.
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John Gielgud as John Middleton Murry |
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Jane Birkin as Marie Taylor, Katherine Mansfield |
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Féodor Atkine as Andre de Sarry |
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Simon Ward as young John |
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Louba Guertchikoff as Lisa |
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Maurice Chevit as Alain |
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Mireille Alcantara as Violetta |
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Leonard Pezzino as Alfredo |
| Editing | Ian John | Editor |
| Sound | Stephen McCurdy | Original Music Composer |
| Production | John O'Shea | Producer |
| Directing | John Reid | Director |
| Camera | Bernard Lutic | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Maurice Pons | Screenplay |
| Costume & Make-Up | Rose-Marie Melka | Costume Design |
| Writing | Stanley Harper | Screenplay |
| Writing | Jean Betts | Screenplay |
| Art | Joe Bleakley | Art Direction |
| Sound | Bob Allen | Sound |
| Costume & Make-Up | Patrick Villain | Hairdresser |
| Costume & Make-Up | Mayté Alonso | Makeup Artist |
| Production | Dominique Antoine | Executive Producer |
| Sound | John Lipke | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |