Georgy Girl

Georgy Girl is a 1966 British film based on a novel by Margaret Forster. The film was directed by Silvio Narizzano and starred Lynn Redgrave as Georgy, Charlotte Rampling, Alan Bates, and James Mason. The movie also features the well known title song performed by the Seekers.

Georgina Parkin Lynn Redgrave is a 22yearold Londoner who has considerable musical talent, is well educated, and has an engaging if shameless manner. On the other hand, she believes herself to be plain, slightly overweight, dresses haphazardly, and is incredibly nave on the subjects of love and flirtation she has never had a boyfriend. She has an inventive imagination and loves children.Her parents are the livein employees of successful businessman James Leamington James Mason. Leamington is 49 and has a loveless, childless marriage with Ellen Rachel Kempson, Lynn Redgraves real life mother. He has watched with affection as Georgy grew up, and has treated her as if he were her second father he provided for her education, and for a studio in his own home in which she teaches dance to children. As Georgy has become a young woman, however, his feelings for her have become more than fatherly James offers Georgy a legal contract, proposing to supply her with the luxuries of life in return for her becoming his mistress. Georgy sidesteps his proposal by never giving him a direct response Leamingtons businesslike language and manner and awkward inability to express any affection for her leave her cold. ........

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