A Nice Girl Like Me
| A Nice Girl Like Me | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Directed by | Desmond Davis |
| Produced by | Roy Millichip |
| Written by | Millard Lampell |
| Based on |
Marry at Leisure by Anne Piper |
| Starring |
Barbara Ferris Harry Andrews |
| Music by | Patrick Williams |
| Cinematography |
Gilbert Taylor Manny Wynn |
| Edited by | Ralph Sheldon |
Production company |
Partisan Productions |
| Distributed by | AVCO Embassy Pictures (UK) |
Release date | 1969 |
Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
A Nice Girl Like Me is a 1969 British comedy film directed by Desmond Davis.[1] The plot revolves around a girl who lives with her shrewd aunts, goes on a trip, gets pregnant, and must lie to her aunts that the baby is not hers.[2]
Cast
- Barbara Ferris as Candida
- Harry Andrews as Savage, Caretaker
- Gladys Cooper as Aunt Mary
- William Hinnant as Ed
- James Villiers as Freddie
- Joyce Carey as Aunt Celia
- Christopher Guinee as Pierre
- Fabia Drake as Miss Grimsby
- Irene Prador as Mme. Dupont
- Erik Chitty as Vicar
- Totti Truman Taylor as Miss Charter
- John Serret as Museum Attendant
- John Clive as Supermarket Shopper
- Ann Lancaster as Miss Garland
- Shelagh Wilcocks as Labor Ward Sister
- Susan Whitman as Labor Ward Nurse
- Douglas Wilmer as Postnatal Clinic Doctor
Production
It was shot on location in Paris, Venice and London around Chiswick and Hammersmith riverside. The film was originally meant to star Stanley Baker.[3]
Critical reception
The Spinning Image wrote, "it was regarded at the time as a glossy exercise in marrying cinema advert visuals to a would-be daring plot about unmarried motherhood, some way away from the nineteen-sixties "issue" films and TV plays that offered audiences and commentators alike something to get their teeth into. Cathy Come Home or Up the Junction this was not. All that said, and those naysayers did have a point, funnily enough this has aged rather better than might have been expected since it conforms to the Swinging Sixties stereotype fairly comfortably; though it remained a shade artificial as an experience as a nostalgia piece it came across very well, and much of that was down to the central relationship."[4]
References
- ↑ "A Nice Girl Like Me (1969)".
- ↑ "A Nice Girl Like Me (1969) - Overview - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies.
- ↑ They Seek Out Saul Bellow: 'MAF BOYS' STRANGER" DUE ON THE RUN By A.H. WEILER. New York Times (1923-Current file) [New York, N.Y] 28 May 1967: D9.
- ↑ "Nice Girl Like Me, A Review (1969)". www.thespinningimage.co.uk.