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In Love with Barbara (2008)
TV Movie | Drama

In Love with Barbara (2008)

TV Movie | Drama

In the 1970s the redoubtable and eccentric Barbara Cartland, prolific author of hundreds of romantic novels, is interviewed on television, where she expresses anti-feminist views. Despite being reminded that she was a working journalist in...See moreIn the 1970s the redoubtable and eccentric Barbara Cartland, prolific author of hundreds of romantic novels, is interviewed on television, where she expresses anti-feminist views. Despite being reminded that she was a working journalist in the 1920s, she clings to her view that what women really want is a romantic husband. Back home she bars women wearing trousers from her house, frustrates Ian, her son and literary agent, by announcing that she is to make an album of love songs and advises her friend, Louis Mountbatten, uncle of the Queen, as to a healthy diet, with plenty of ginseng. As she dictates her latest book to a secretary, the action moves back and forth between the 1970s and Barbara's young life. Her family was once very wealthy but fell upon hard times and Polly, Barbara's mother, always told her that she would marry a duke. However, she marries a drunk who is rough in bed and has a mistress, and she retreats into writing as an escape from him. Ultimately they divorce and she marries his cousin, who encourages her writing and stays with her until his death in the 1960s. There is some irony in the juxtaposition of Barbara's flowery prose and the unhappy experience of her own first marriage. Written by don @ minifie-1 See less

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20 cast members

Name	Known for
Julie Barclay Chat Show Guest Chat Show Guest See fewer	Belgravia: The Next Chapter (2024)
India Skye Beale Raine - aged 3 Raine - aged 3 See fewer	In Love with Barbara (2008)
Sarah Buckland Judy - the secretary Judy - the secretary See fewer	In Love with Barbara (2008)
Tom Burke Ronald Cartland Ronald Cartland See fewer	Only God Forgives (2013)
Philip Childs TV interviewer TV interviewer See fewer	Vera Drake (2004)
Elliot Cowan Sacchie McCorquodale Sacchie McCorquodale See fewer	Alexander (2004)
Hugh Holman Camerman Camerman See fewer	Walking on Sunshine (2014)
Sinead Matthews Young Barbara Young Barbara See fewer	Pride & Prejudice (2005)
Jacquetta May Polly Cartland Polly Cartland See fewer	Get Real (1998)
Christopher Naylor Hugh McCorquodale Hugh McCorquodale See fewer	S.W.A.T. (2017)
Sam Pamphilon Journalist Journalist See fewer	SO Beano! (2018)
Robert Portal Ian McCorquodale Ian McCorquodale See fewer	My Week with Marilyn (2011)
Anne Reid Barbara Cartland Barbara Cartland See fewer	Hot Fuzz (2007)
Stella Ross Chat show host Chat show host See fewer	In Love with Barbara (2008)
Rebekah Staton Helen Helen See fewer	Raised by Wolves (2013)
Rebecca Tromans Stacey - the lady's maid Stacey - the lady's maid See fewer	The Actual Truth: Cancel Culture (2022)
David Warner Lord Mountbatten Lord Mountbatten See fewer	Titanic (1997)
Ewan Watson Kevin - the chauffeur Kevin - the chauffeur See fewer	The Machinist (2004)
Isadora Whitby Raine - aged 10 Raine - aged 10 See fewer	In Love with Barbara (2008)
Andrew Woodall Patrick Hastings Patrick Hastings See fewer	The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)