Lady Windermere's Fan

Lady Windermere's Fan

1985 · 118 min · ★ 9.0 · Drama, Romance

Lord Windermere appears to all - including to his young wife Margaret - as the perfect husband. But their happy marriage is placed at risk when Lord Windermere starts spending his afternoons with an adventuress who is working her way through London's high society, Mrs. Erlynne. Worse, Windermere gives her big sums of money. To crown it all he asks his wife to invite the detestable woman to her own birthday party. Upset and outraged, the puritan Lady Windermere decides to leave her husband and goes to Lord Robert Darlington, who has been courting her for some time. Unfortunately she leaves her fan - the one Robert offered her for her birthday - in Robert's house...

Directed by Tony Smith · Written by Oscar Wilde

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Helena Little Lady Windermere
Tim Woodward Lord Windermere
Kenneth Cranham Lord Darlington
Robert Lang Lord Augustus Lorton
Diana Fairfax Lady Jedburgh
Geoff Morrell Mr. Hopper

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