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The Dresser

What happens backstage is always true drama. And often pure comedy.

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The Dresser — Plot

In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser - is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the London Blitz. The pathos of his backstage efforts rival the pathos in the story of Lear and the Fool that is being presented on-stage, as the situation comes to a crisis.

  • Release date
  • December 6, 1983
  • Runtime
  • 118 min
  • Genres
  • Drama
  • Director
  • Peter Yates

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The Dresser — Cast

Albert Finney photo Albert Finney Sir Tom Courtenay photo Tom Courtenay Norman Edward Fox photo Edward Fox Oxenby Zena Walker photo Zena Walker Her Ladyship Eileen Atkins photo Eileen Atkins Madge Michael Gough photo Michael Gough Frank Carrington Cathryn Harrison photo Cathryn Harrison Irene Betty Marsden photo Betty Marsden Violet Manning

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