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Netflix adds fab feel-good period movie with 94 percent Rotten Tomatoes critic score

Check out Mrs Harris Goes to Paris on Netflix... it's sure to put a smile on your face

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Flowers for Mrs Harris review – sweetly unassuming musical with dreams of chic

Jenna Russell gives a shining performance of quiet resolve in this musical adaptation of Paul Gallico’s novel about a widowed cleaner in gloomy postwar London who sets her sights on purchasing a Dior dress in Paris

The Guardian - UK

Flowers For Mrs Harris musical celebrates British working-class, says director

Olivier-award winning actress Jenna Russell will play Mrs Harris in the new musical coming to Riverside Studios.

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Mrs Harris Goes to Paris makes a mockery of real working-class life

The new film Mrs Harris Goes to Paris is based on a 1958 novel by the American writer Paul Gallico: no British novelist could romanticise the class system quite so wackily. It is about the adventures of a Battersea char who, heartbroken by the death of her husband, saves up…

Evening Standard

Jason Isaacs' terror-filled teenage years being terrorised and beaten by fascists

Mrs Harris Goes To Paris star Jason Isaacs overcame growing up in a difficult environment, with far-right activists targeting his Jewish family, to become one of the most recognisable faces in British acting

Daily Mirror

Top 10 books about cleaners

Authors from Barbara Ehrenreich to Damon Galgut highlight these undervalued workers and their sharp perspectives on those they tidy up after

The Guardian - UK

‘Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris’ review: A 1950s Cinderella story returns for a little wish-fulfillment

Neither hambone nor underplayer, Lesley Manville gives tremendous value for the money. Her classical chops, coupled with a shrewd improviser’s wiles honed in the films of Mike Leigh, have elevated so many projects, among them Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Phantom Thread,” in which Manville played the impeccably coifed gatekeeper to Daniel…

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Vive la Paris: Why the city has such a magical effect in films

With the release of ‘Mrs Harris Goes to Paris’ later this year, starring Lesley Manville as a British cleaning lady going to Paris to buy a Dior dress, Geoffrey Macnab looks back at films set in Paris and says when it comes to wish-fulfilment fantasies on screen, there has only…

The Independent UK

James Bond books dedicated to Paul Gallico among star lots at library auction

Books owned by The Snow Goose author up for sale this week include Ian Fleming first editions inscribed for his former colleague

The Guardian - UK

Rare first edition of first Harry Potter book to go under auction for £30,000

Other books in the sale include signed copies of other JK Rowling books and late US author Paul Gallico’s library

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