Oscar Wilde (film)

Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
	20th Century Fox
Release date	22 May 1960;
Running time	98 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	$250,000

Oscar Wilde is a 1960

20th Century Fox. The film was directed by Gregory Ratoff and produced by William Kirby, from a screenplay by Jo Eisinger, based on the play Oscar Wilde by Leslie Stokes and Sewell Stokes. The film starred Robert Morley (as Oscar Wilde), Ralph Richardson, Phyllis Calvert and Alexander Knox

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Plot

The plot primarily focuses on the litigation surrounding Wilde's libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry, and the subsequent accusation of Wilde's homosexuality.

Cast

Robert Morley as Oscar Wilde
Sir Edward Carson
Phyllis Calvert as Constance Wilde
John Neville as Lord Alfred Douglas
Alexander Knox as Sir Edward Clarke
Dennis Price as Robbie Ross
Edward Chapman as the Marquess of Queensberry
Martin Benson as George Alexander

Production

This was one of two films about Wilde released in 1960, the other being The Trials of Oscar Wilde. They were both released in the last week of May 1960.^[1]

Author and former film extra Brian Edward Hurst gives a detailed description of a scene he witnessed during filming where Morley (as Wilde) attempted to pick up a newspaper boy on a foggy London street. Hurst's book: Heaven Can Help – the Autobiography of a Medium^[2] describes the day's filming at Walton Studios.

The attempted seduction scene was cut from the final version. This movie was a lower budget production which was compared unfavorably with the wide-screen, technicolor version The Trials of Oscar Wilde.

Release

The film had a charity gala at the Carlton on 22 May 1960.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Myers, Harold (1 June 1960). "A Queer Rivalry: 2 'Oscar Wildes'". Variety. p. 7. Retrieved 2 February 2021 – via Internet Archive.
^ Chapter 13, Page 63-64 Pub:iUniverse, 2007

External links

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[rival-1] Myers, Harold (1 June 1960). "A Queer Rivalry: 2 'Oscar Wildes'". Variety. p. 7. Retrieved 2 February 2021 – via Internet Archive.

[2] Chapter 13, Page 63-64 Pub:iUniverse, 2007

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v t e Oscar Wilde
Novel	The Picture of Dorian Gray
Essays	"The Decay of Lying" "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" "The Critic as Artist" "De Profundis"
Short stories	"The Canterville Ghost" "The Portrait of Mr. W. H." "The Remarkable Rocket"
Collections	Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories The Happy Prince and Other Stories A House of Pomegranates
Poems	The Ballad of Reading Gaol Charmides "The Harlot's House" Poems in Prose The Sphinx
Plays	Vera; or, The Nihilists The Duchess of Padua Lady Windermere's Fan A Florentine Tragedy A Woman of No Importance Salome La Sainte Courtisane An Ideal Husband The Importance of Being Earnest
Family	Constance Wilde (wife) Cyril Wilde Holland (son) Vyvyan Wilde Holland (son) Merlin Holland (grandson) William Wilde (father) Jane Elgee Wilde (mother) Willie Wilde (brother)
Places	Oscar Wilde Centre (academic centre) Merrion Square home Tomb and gravesite A Conversation with Oscar Wilde (London sculpture) Memorial triptych sculpture, Dublin
Based on Wilde's life and works	Music based on the works of Oscar Wilde Biographies of Oscar Wilde Themes and derivatives of Salome Oscar Wilde (1936 play) Oscar Wilde (1960 film) The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960 film) The Importance of Being Oscar (1960 play) Oscar (1985 miniseries) Wilde (1997 film) Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (1997 play) The Judas Kiss (1998 play) Oscar (2013 opera) The Happy Prince (2018 film)
Related	Oscar Wilde bibliography The Letters of Oscar Wilde Teleny, or The Reverse of the Medal Lord Alfred Douglas Ada Leverson Robbie Ross Robert Sherard
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