Helen Mirren at the BBC

DVDs. Helen Mirren At The Bbc

MOVIE DVD - By the time Dame Helen Mirren won her Oscar for The Queen and her Emmy for Elizabeth I, she had been wowing theater and television audiences for more than 40 years. Now take a front-row seat for nine of her early television performances and rediscover a young actress already on her way to stardom. The productions collected here include: William Rowley and Thomas Middleton's The Changeling, J. M. Barrie's The Little Minister, William Wycherley's The Country Wife, and George Bernard Shaw's The Apple Cart from the BBC's Play of the Month series (1974-77); Caesar and Claretta (1975) from the Beeb's Private Affairs series; Christopher Hampton's The Philanthropist (1975); Dennis Potter's Blue Remembered Hills (1979) and Stephen Poliakoff's Soft Targets (1982) from Play for Today; and Edna O'Brien's Mrs. Reinhardt (1981) from BBC2 Playhouse. - Helen Mirren at the BBC (DVD)

Release Date: 2008-02-19, Rating NR (Not Rated),

Release Date: 2008-02-19, Rating NR (Not Rated),

British actress Helen Mirren has long blessed the BBC's TV productions with her effective and nuanced performances. With a long stage career and a film career whose longevity any actress would envy Mirren has shown that she can do it all. This comprehensive collection includes nine hard-to-find BBC productions that showcase her early work in the 1970s and '80s. Included here are THE CHANGLING THE APPLE CART CAESAR CLARETTA THE PHILANTHROPIST THE LITTLE MINISTER THE COUNTRY WIFE BLUE REMEMBERED HILLS MRS. REINHARDT and SOFT TARGETS.