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Dianne Robbins (1738 KP) rated Below Stairs: The Bestselling Memoirs of a 1920s Kitchen Maid in Books

Sep 3, 2018  
Below Stairs: The Bestselling Memoirs of a 1920s Kitchen Maid
Below Stairs: The Bestselling Memoirs of a 1920s Kitchen Maid
Margaret Powell | 2011 | Biography
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6.3 (3 Ratings)
Book Rating
Margaret Powell's memoir Below Stairs is growing up in a poor in money but rich in love with her family in a small village near London, England and her life in domestic service in the 1920s. It is simply wonderful. Her other memoirs Climbing the Stairs and Servants Hall and her Cookery Book are next on my list. It's more like listening to your favorite aunt sitting at the kitchen with you over fresh-baked cookies and glasses of homemade lemonade while retelling stories of her childhood and life in the early part of the 20th century. You HAVE to read it!. Julian Fellowes read her books and they were the inspiration behind the extremely popular BBC series Downton Abbey, that is watched by us in the states on PBS Masterpiece.
  
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gayga (2128 KP) rated Judy (2019) in Movies

Oct 24, 2019  
Judy (2019)
Judy (2019)
2019 | Biography, Drama, Musical
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6.7 (16 Ratings)
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I was SO looking forward to going to see Judy. And it’s lovely to see Renee Zellweger looking herself after “that” plastic surgery (possibly).

RZ singing was awesome, it was all very glossy and I even shed a tear. So I’m not sure why I left the cinema slightly disappointed in the whole thing.

Basically the story is the end of Judy Garlands life when she was a pill popping soak who couldn’t get a job and the 5 days she performed at The Talk of the Town, London..

I don’t know if it was because it seemed to end quite suddenly or what. However, I did enjoy it enough to want to watch it again, if only for RZ performance which was outstanding.
  
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Allison Knapp (118 KP) rated Mrs. Henderson Presents (2006) in Movies

Jan 20, 2019  
Mrs. Henderson Presents (2006)
Mrs. Henderson Presents (2006)
2006 | Comedy, Drama
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8.0 (3 Ratings)
Movie Rating
Brilliant and witty performances by Judy Dench and Bob Hoskins (4 more)
Full of charm and great character dynamics
Entertaining musical numbers
Plenty of humor balanced perfectly with the seriousness of the time period
Beautiful costumes and cinematography
Historical film about a vaudeville show with live nude girls during the WWII era in London
New widow Laura Henderson decides to use her wealth to purchase an abandoned theater out of boredom. Her sense of entitlement and class related arrogance can prove at times to be annoying and at times rudely persistent, especially when it comes to her relationship with the man who she chose to manage her theater, Vivian Van Dame, but with all her schemes and meddling, it shows that deep down, she always has the best of intentions.
  
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Dianne Robbins (1738 KP) Jan 21, 2019

Oh, thank goodness! I have been wanting to watch this movie but could not remember the title. I'm so glad to see it as is good as I'd imagined it was. Thanks for your review!
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Allison Knapp (118 KP) Jan 21, 2019

One of my favorites