Housewife, 49

Resource Information

The work Housewife, 49 represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Anaheim Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Housewife, 49

Statement of responsibility

ITV Productions Ltd. ; Granada International Media Limited ; produced by Piers Wenger ; written by Victoria Wood ; directed by Gavin Millar

Title variation

Housewife, forty-nine

Subject

• English diaries -- Women authors -- Drama
• Feature films
• Feature films
• Great Britain -- Drama
• Great Britain -- History -- George VI, 1936-1952 -- Drama
• Last, Nella
• Life skills -- Great Britain -- Drama
• Married people -- Great Britain -- Drama
• Mass-Observation (Firm) -- Drama
• Mass-Observation -- Drama
• Melodrama
• Melodrama
• Melodrama -- Feature
• Volunteer work -- Great Britain -- Drama
• Volunteers -- Great Britain -- Drama
• War -- Feature
• War films
• War films

Genre

• Drama
• Feature films
• Melodrama
• War
• War films

Language

eng

Summary

Soon after England declared war on Germany in 1939, Lancashire housewife Nella Last began writing a diary as part of a public project. She was 49 and fearful that she wouldn't be able to cope with her son's enlistment and life alone with her domineering husband. Recounts her experience of wartime privations, but also her dawning sense of independence. Amid the hardships of food rations and air raids, Nella's volunteer work for the war effort fills her with an exhilarating sense of purpose

Cataloging source

CANA

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Music, John Lunn

Dewey number

791.43/72

LC call number

D743.23

LC item number

.H68749544 2008

PerformerNote

Victoria Wood, David Threlfall, Christopher Harper

Runtime

93

Target audience

general

Technique

live action