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Sun, Oct 19, 1980. With Marjory away on a theatrical residential course, Audrey is pleased when Richard asks her to help him catalogue his collection of valuable china. A recently-acquired vase worth 40,000 pounds goes missing and Audrey is the prime suspect until Richard's mother eventually admits the vase's fate. 7.9/10 (66) Rate.
It is a play on the phrase 'to the manner born'. Da sieht man mal wieder, wie verkappt "aristokratisch" oder sogar monarchistisch dieses amerikanische Politikergesindel ist! Auf deutsch könnte man vielleicht formulieren: Eine Frau von gutem Stand, obwohl da natürlich das von christopher erkannte Wortspiel nicht drin ist.
To the Manor Born. Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, an upper-class widow, is forced into an alliance with a self-made man in a bid to keep her stately home. Year: 1979 · Sign up to Watch. Season: Season 1 Episode: 1 Year: 1979 Duration: 24 min Credits: Penelope ...
W. resorts to the bottle and to rebellion against family propriety. He woos his wife, Laura (Elizabeth Banks), by crashing a car into the garage door when she criticises a speech. He loses an election, discovers God and gives up booze, but his thin skin and to-the-manor-born arrogance never desert him.
When her husband dies. Audrey fforbes-Hamilton is shocked when she realizes that she must leave Grantleigh Manor, where her family has lived forever. The new owner is Richard DeVere, owner of a major supermarket chain. Audrey makes sure she's on hand to keep an eye on him by buying The Old Lodge on the edge of the Manor grounds.
'To the Manor Born' is one of the better Brit-coms, witty and intelligent without being over-the-top or inaccessible. It has an oh-so-British tone to it, deliberately so, as it looks with grace and humour at the clash of cultures in modern Britain, the clash between tradition and modernity (finding out that neither is always what it seems), as well as the clash between social classes.
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