Penelope Mortimer - Turner Classic Movies

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A Summer Story (1988)

Death of a Princess (1980)

Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)

Portrait of a Marriage (1992)

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Pumpkin Eater, The (1964) -- (Movie Clip) I Find It Very Depressing

Pumpkin Eater, The (1964) -- (Movie Clip) Wives Don't Usually Like Me

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Filmography

Writer (Feature Film)

A Summer Story (1988)

Death of a Princess (1980)

Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)

Writer (Special)

Portrait of a Marriage (1992)

Special Thanks (Special)

Portrait of a Marriage (1992)

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Pumpkin Eater, The (1964) -- (Movie Clip) I Find It Very Depressing Following the credits, more of Anne Bancroft as disillusioned wife Jo, in her London home, joined by husband Jake (Peter Finch), opening director Jack Clayton's The Pumpkin Eater, 1964, also starring James Mason, from the Penelope Mortimer novel and Harold Pinter's screenplay.

Pumpkin Eater, The (1964) -- (Movie Clip) Wives Don't Usually Like Me Another flashback from Jo (Anne Bancroft), alone in her London house, introducing Maggie Smith as "Philpot," officially a distant friend of her husband, then taking her brood for a walk in the park, in The Pumpkin Eater, 1964, directed by Jack Clayton, with Peter Finch and James Mason.

Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965) -- (Movie Clip) The Fours Are Packing Up Mystified American Ann (Carol Lynley) can't find her daughter after the first day at the new London school, though a teacher (Jill Melford) is unworried, in Otto Preminger's Bunny Lake Is Missing, 1965, co-starring Laurence Olivier.

Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965) -- (Movie Clip) Have You Got A Snap? London Inspector Newhouse (Laurence Olivier) in his first scene, debriefing distraught American mom Ann (Carol Lynley) whose daughter has gone missing in her first day at school, husband Keir Dullea joining, in Otto Preminger's Bunny Lake Is Missing, 1965.

Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965) -- (Movie Clip) Only Ten Minutes The Germanic cook (Lucie Mannheim) has bigger problems and happily assures American Ann (Carol Lynley) that she'll watch over her daughter in her first day at her new London school in Otto Preminger's Bunny Lake Is Missing, 1965.

Pumpkin Eater, The (1964) -- (Movie Clip) Far Too Many Children Director Jack Clayton's hard edit, to Cedric Hardwicke whom we learn is the father of Jo (Anne Bancroft) and who thinks Jake (Peter Finch) is nuts to marry her, after she left her previous husband and brought along five children, in The Pumpkin Eater, 1964, from the Penelope Mortimer novel.

Pumpkin Eater, The (1964) -- (Movie Clip) An Honest Tradesman At the urging of Jo (Anne Bancroft), Bob (James Mason) and actress wife Beth (Janine Gray) are among the invitees at a party she's hosting with screenwriter husband Jake (Peter Finch), popular character Gerald Sim as one voluble guest, in The Pumpkin Eater, 1964, directed by Jack Clayton.

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