form y separately published work icon The Bliss of Mrs Blossom single work   film/TV   humour  
Note:

Co-written with Denis Norden.

Sometimes said to be based on Coppel's play A Bird in the Nest, but no performances of a play of this name by Coppel have been traced.

Producer Josef Shaftel is sometimes credited with 'story'.
Issue Details: First known date: 1968... 1968 The Bliss of Mrs Blossom
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Film Details - Paramount Pictures , 1968

Producers:

Josef Shaftel.

Production Companies:

Paramount Pictures.

Director of Photography:

Geoffrey Unsworth.

Editors:

Ralph Sheldon.

Production Designers:

Assheton Gorton.

Music:

Riz Ortolani.

Cast:

Including Shirley MacLaine (Harriet Blossom), Richard Attenborough (Robert Blossom), James Booth (Ambrose Tuttle), Freddie Jones (Det. Sgt. Dylan), William Rushton (Dylan's assistant), Bob Monkhouse (Dr Taylor), and Patricia Routledge (Miss Reece).

Release Dates:

Released earlier in the US, on 11 September 1968.
Premiered in the UK in London on 21 November 1968.

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