MILLIONAIRESS, THE (SHAW COLLECTION, THE)

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• Release Year: 1972
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Plot: Bernard Shaw's glittering farce THE MILLIONAIRESS reveals the true relations between class, capital, power and labor. Starring Maggie Smith, Tom Baker and Charles Gray, this original BBC production brings the hilarity and searing commentary of Shaw's work to vivid life.; ; Epifania (Maggie Smith) is glamorous, clever...and also the richest woman in the world. After yet another row with her spendthrift husband, Epifania meets an intriguing Egyptian doctor (Tom Baker). But she faces the challenge her money-mad father imposed on her before his death: She can only consider for marriage a man who can convert 150 pounds into 50,000 pounds within six months. Coincidentally, the good doctor has a similar challenge from his mother and can only consider for a wife a woman who can make her own living for six months with only 35 pence to start. Will Epifania be able to prove her profitability? And is the good doctor even interested in the challenge of a woman used to getting whatever she wants? ; ; Bonus Play: Helen Mirren and Prunella Scales appear in THE APPLE CART (1975), a Shaw play set forty years in the future, where the king must match wits with an unruly mistress and a cabinet seeking to transform the nation into a constitutional monarchy.
• Cast: Maggie Smith, Peter Barkworth, James Villiers, Charles Gray, Priscilla Morgan, Tom Baker, Donald Pickering, John Garrie, Avril Angers, William Slater, George Bernard Shaw
• Director: William Slater
• Runtime: 1:40
• Company: BBC America, Warner Home Video
• Media Format: Movie