A Taste of Honey (film)

A Taste of Honey (film)

Infobox Film | name = A Taste of Honey


caption =
director = Tony Richardson
producer = Tony Richardson
writer = Shelagh Delaney (play and screenplay)
Tony Richardson (screenplay)
starring =Rita Tushingham
Murray Melvin
Dora Bryan
Robert Stephens
music =John Addison
cinematography =
editing =
distributor = British Lion Films
released = flagicon|UK September, 1961
flagicon|USA 30 April, 1962
runtime = UK: 100 min
language = English
budget =
imdb_id = 0055506

"A Taste of Honey" is a 1961 British film adaptation of the play of the same name by Shelagh Delaney. Delaney adapted the screenplay herself, aided by director Tony Richardson, who had previously directed the first production of the play. The film features Rita Tushingham as Jo, Dora Bryan as her mother, Murray Melvin as Geoffrey, and Paul Danquah as Jimmy.

Awards

The film won four BAFTA awards: Richardson won Best British Screenplay (with Delaney) and Best British Film, Bryan won Best Actress and Tushingham was named Most Promising Newcomer. Tushingham and Melvin were Best Actress and Actor at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival. In America the film won Tushingham a 1963 Golden Globe for Most Promising Female Newcomer and got Richardson a 1963 Directors Guild of America award nomination. Delaney and Richardson also won a Writers' Guild of Great Britain award.

External links

*imdb title|id=0055506|title=A Taste of Honey
* [http://members.cox.net/rjd0309/tush/1961.htm#atoh Photo gallery at Rita Tushingham fansite]
* [http://www.brokenprojector.com/wordpress/?p=36 British New Wave article on A Taste of Honey at BrokenProjector.com]


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