Leaving her grown, supportive sons and hesitant husband behind for what we discover is the city of her birth, it's only after the flirtatious Louise and cautious housewife settle into New York that we deduce that Norma has another reason she wanted to head back east as she tries to solve a mystery that's haunted her for years. MASTERPIECE: The Chaperone KPBS Public Media Journey from Kansas to New York City with the diffident chaperone to uninhibited dancer Louise Brooks in this Jazz Age drama that reunites DOWNTON. Geza Rohrig fares better as the sweet German handyman who fixes her right up, even helping her solve a childhood mystery.
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Reeling from a betrayal in her twenty-five year marriage to her husband played by Campbell Scott - which Fellowes brilliantly teases out in a series of flashbacks cut into the film by editor Sofía Subercaseaux throughout the first three acts of its running time - Norma impulsively volunteers to chaperone Louise for the summer after seeing her dance. Where American television hustles to turn recently published beach reads into prestige series, literary classics Austen, Dickens, Trollope, Waugh, et al.
When last we left Darrowby, there was cause. To help bring the lovable Norma to life, veteran star and first time producer Elizabeth McGovern - who purchased the rights to Moriarty’s novel after initially being hired to perform it as an audiobook - teamed up with her Downton Abbey colleagues, screenwriter Julian Fellowes and director Michael Engler for a 1920s period picture set on this side of the pond. Rachel Shenton and Nicholas Ralph in 'All Creatures Great and Small'.
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