Caddie (film)

Caddie is an Australian film directed by Donald Crombie and produced by Anthony Buckley. Released in 1976, it is representative of the Australian film renaissance which occurred during that decade. Set mainly in Sydney during the 1920s and 1930s, including the Great Depression, it portrays the life of a young middle class woman struggling to raise two children after her marriage breaks up. Based on Caddie, the Story of a Barmaid, a partly fictitious autobiography of Catherine Caddie Edmonds, it made Helen Morse a local star and earned Jacki Weaver and Melissa Jaffer each an Australian Film Institute Award.

The original autobiography was published in 1953. The reallife barmaid, Catherine Edmonds, got to know Dymphna Cusack while she was writing Come in Spinner and Cusack helped the book get published.The budget was raised from the Australian Film Development Corporation, the Australian Womens Weekly, the Nine television network, the Secretariat for International Womans Year, and Roadshow. Shooting began in late 1975. ........

Source: Wikipedia