Program Title
Pictures

Based On
Original drama by Roy Clarke

Adapted By
Roy Clarke

Number of Episodes:
7

Description
With turned up nose and turned down hose, Ruby L. Sears is a saucy flapper with an unswerving determination to become a silent film star. Ruby enters scriptwriter Bill Trench's life when she gate crashes a film studio party and Bill is unwittingly dragged into her ambition and unconsciously smitten with her forthright charms. Bill next encounters Ruby when she is working as a waitress on the studio lot, where he observes her making herself known to the top moguls. Ruby's gutsy, zany personality gives Trench an idea for a new kind of "modern" film based on Ruby's life: "The Movie Nut". It's not easy getting a film written and made but Ruby and Bill are determined to see it through and contributing to the fun and games are Ruby's tangles with studio politicians and competing actors before she finally becomes a star and finds true love with the cynical but attractive screenwriter, Bill Trench.


Original broadcast date
1983-10-02

Cast	Characters
Wendy Morgan
Peter M Enery
Anton Rodgers
Harry M Towb
Malcolm M Jameson
Annette M Badland
Malcolm M Jamieson
Marc M Smith
Marianne M Borgo
Manning Redwood
Donald M Gee
Wendy M Raebeck
Arthur M Cox
Judi Maynard
Frank M Wylie
Robert M O'Mahoney
John Carlin
Neville Phillips
Phoebe Nicholls
Philip York
Amanda Walker
Michael M Cashman
Barry M Dennen
Cookie M Weymouth

Credits

Producer: Joan Brown
Director: Carol Wiseman





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