Georgy Girl (1966)

Georgy Girl
Directed by Silvio Nazzarizano
Written by Margaret Foster and Peter Nichols from a novel by Foster
1966/UK
Columbia Pictures Corporation/Everglades Productions
Repeat viewing/Amazon Instant

[box] Hey there, Georgy girl/ There’s another Georgy deep inside/ Bring out all the love you hide and, oh, what a change there’d be/The world would see/a new Georgy girl. Lyrics by Jim Dale; performed by The Seekers[/box]

Cinderella story is an OK product of the Swinging Sixties.

Georgy (Lynn Redgrave) is the gauche and over-large in every way daughter of the butler to an English aristocrat (James Mason).  Master wants Georgy to be his mistress. Georgy is living with spoiled sex-pot Meredith (Charlotte Rampling) who is a concert flautist.  Most nights are also shared with Meredith’s boyfriend Jos (Alan Bates), with whom Georgy is secretly in love.  Complications arise when Meredith falls pregnant.

Lynn Redgrave is so charming in this movie it seems the part was created for her.  So I was surprised to see the trivia that it was originally casted with her sister Vanessa.  The entire cast is strong and carries the picture, which is otherwise a fairly predictable example of its genre.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDedx_LMoFw