{"id":752,"date":"2014-08-14T22:22:37","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T21:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/?p=752"},"modified":"2014-08-14T22:22:37","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T21:22:37","slug":"lucy-fleming-special-screenings-of-brief-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/2014\/08\/14\/lucy-fleming-special-screenings-of-brief-encounter\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucy Fleming – special screenings of Brief Encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lifelong surprise at a Brief Encounter<\/h3>\n

The star of Brief Encounter<\/em> was always surprised that the tiny wartime movie had become a classic, her daughter says.<\/p>\n

Actress Lucy Fleming, whose mother Celia Johnson starred as the housewife Laura in the film regularly voted one of the most romantic of all time, said: “I remember her saying about 10 years before she died [aged 73 in 1982] that it was odd that this little film she made during the war had become a classic. But she was terribly proud of it.”<\/p>\n

Ms Fleming, 67, will introduce the film, which co-starred Trevor Howard, at three special screenings<\/a> tomorrow and on August 22 and 29 with accompaniment by the London Philharmonic Orchestra as part of the Southbank Centre’s Festival of Love<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The film, which follows the stiff-upper-lip near-romance between two married people who resist having an affair, was directed by David Lean in wartime Britain.<\/p>\n

Ms Fleming said: “Obviously it’s very old-fashioned but it appeals to people still. I think it’s just a little gem \u2014 but I\u2019m a bit biased.”<\/p>\n

\"Brief<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Louise Jury. 2014. ‘Lifelong surprise at a Brief Encounter’. Evening Standard<\/em><\/a>. 14 August<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lifelong surprise at a Brief Encounter The star of Brief Encounter was always surprised that the tiny wartime movie had become a classic, her daughter says. Actress Lucy Fleming, whose mother Celia Johnson starred as the housewife Laura in the film regularly voted one of the most romantic of all time, said: “I remember her … Continue reading “Lucy Fleming – special screenings of Brief Encounter”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-news","category-events","category-interviews-cast"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9n8B4-c8","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}