The L-Shaped Room (1962)
November 20, 1962Release Date
The L-Shaped Room (1962)
November 20, 1962Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Leslie Caron
Jane
Brock Peters
Johnny
Anthony Booth
Youth in Street
Bernard Lee
Charlie
Avis Bunnage
Doris
Patricia Phoenix
Sonia
Verity Edmett
Jane II
Tom Bell
Toby
Cicely Courtneidge
Mavis
Harry Locke
Newsagent
Ellen Dryden
Girl in Newsagent's
Emlyn Williams
Dr. Weaver
Bryan Forbes
Director
Jennifer White
Monica
Lynne Reid Banks
Writer
Gerry Duggan
Bert
Richard Attenborough
Producer
Joan Ingram
Woman in Park
James Woolf
Producer
Mark Eden
Terry
Douglas Slocombe
Cinematographer
Stanley Morgan
Waiter in Club
Gerald Sim
Doctor in Hospital
Anthony Harvey
Editor
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The L-Shaped Room is a 1962 British drama romance film directed by Bryan Forbes, based on the 1960 novel of the same name by Lynne Reid Banks. It tells the story of Jane Fosset (Leslie Caron), a young French woman, unmarried and pregnant, who moves into a cheap London boarding house, befriending a young man, Toby (Tom Bell), in the building. The work is considered part of the kitchen sink realism school of British drama. The film reflected a trend in British films of greater frankness about sex and displays a sympathetic treatment of outsiders "unmarried mothers, lesbian or black" as well as a "largely natural and non-judgmental handling of their problems". As director, Forbes represents "a more romantic, wistful type of realism" than that of Tony Richardson or Lindsay Anderson.Caron's performance earned her the Golden Globe Award and BAFTA Award for best actress, as well as a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.Courtneidge gave what she considered her finest film performance, in a role wholly unlike her usual parts; she played an elderly lesbian, living in a drab London flat with her cat, recalling her career as an actress and forlornly trying to keep in touch with former friends. The Times described her performance as a triumph. For Bell, the film marked his breakthrough as a leading actor in film and television.