- A Taste of Honey (film)
Infobox Film | name = A Taste of Honey
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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
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distributor =British Lion Films
released = flagicon|UK September, 1961
flagicon|USA30 April ,1962
runtime = UK: 100 min
language = English
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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 directorTony Richardson , who had previously directed the first production of the play. The film featuresRita Tushingham as Jo,Dora Bryan as her mother,Murray Melvin as Geoffrey, andPaul 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 1962Cannes Film Festival . In America the film won Tushingham a 1963Golden Globe for Most Promising Female Newcomer and got Richardson a 1963Directors Guild of America award nomination. Delaney and Richardson also won aWriters' 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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