Program Title
Lillie

Episode Title
The Jersey Lily

Episode number:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

Description
Lillie is a sensational social success, a Professional Beauty. Artists clamor to paint her portrait; her likeness appears in shop windows alongside well-known society beauties. Millais puts a red Jersey Lily in her hand for contrast with her now-famous black dress (the only one she owns), and the portrait, on public exhibit, adds to Lillies celebrity. But invited to a ball in honor of Leopold, King of Belgium, and asked not to wear black, Lillie cannot afford another gown. Oscar Wilde, her friend and admirer, explains that a London dressmaker will gladly make one; the famous Mrs. Langtry need not pay for it for years. Lillie causes another sensation--in white velvet

Original broadcast date
1979-03-25

Cast	Characters
Francesca Annis	Lillie Langtry
Anton Rodgers	Edward Langtry
Peter Egan	Oscar Wilde
Brian Deacon	Frank Miles
Don Fellows	J. M. Whistler
Jennie Linden	Patsy Cornwallis-West
Catherine Feller	Dominique
Gary Hope	Edward Poynter
Paul Williamson	Lord Wharncliffe
Yvonne Manners	Lady Wharncliffe
Timothy Kightley	Alfred Ellis
Desmond Llewelyn	Lord Dudley
Derek Smith	King Leopold

Credits

Producer: Jack Williams
Director: John Gorrie



Episode number: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13




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