Although she and Robert never married, they lived together for some time. Bowen) when they were both quite young, but she left him when she fell into an unplanned relationship with television journalist Robert Gold (Sir Dirk Bogarde), who was at the time married with a family. She married her first husband Tony Bridges (T.R. She worked as a London-based model, her most famous job being as the Honeyglow girl, and had a moderately successful stint as an actress in small roles in movies and in commercials. Twenty-something Italian Princess della Romita, better known to her British fans as Sussex born Diana Scott (Julie Christie), is giving an interview to a reporter in which she describes her life. Julie Christie played far more sympathetic objects of desire in Billy Liar (1963) and Far From the Madding Crowd (1967), both directed by Schlesinger.Taglines: Shame, shame, everybody knows your name! Still, its portrayal of elastic morals, homosexuality and even a Parisian sex party marked a watershed in the acceptance of permissive subject matter within the cinematic mainstream. This unresolved ambiguity makes the film a key document of the moment London’s Swinging Sixties hit their peak, while also rendering its storytelling rather problematic in retrospect. Thanks to Julie Christie’s mesmerising, Oscar-winning presence, however, the film then swoons over its plush international lifestyles as its somewhat vapid heroine seduces her way to a fortune. In this wordless opening, John Schlesinger’s drama sets out its seemingly critical stance towards London’s glitterati. “There is something of Diana Scott in almost every modern woman who is interesting enough and interested enough to speculate about the meaning of her existence.”Ī billboard poster fund-raising for starving African children is pasted over with an advert for a fashion model’s tell-all memoirs.
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