Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World
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Sewell Stokes
- Vivian Pickles
- Peter Bowles
- Alexei Jawdokimov
- Murray Melvin
- Jeanne Le Bars
- Alita Naughton
- Sandor Elès
| Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World | |
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| Written by | Ken Russell Sewell Stokes |
| Directed by | Ken Russell |
| Starring |
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| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Producer | Ken Russell |
| Cinematography | Dick Bush Brian Tufano |
| Editors | Michael Bradsell Roger Crittenden |
| Running time | 65 minutes 63 minutes (DVD version) |
| Production company | BBC |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC |
| Release | 22 September 1966 |
Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World is a BBC Television film based on the life of the American dancer Isadora Duncan first broadcast on 22 September 1966. The film was directed and produced by Ken Russell and written by Sewell Stokes and Russell. It starred Vivian Pickles and Peter Bowles.
The film is a biopic of American dancer Isadora Duncan.
Cast
- Vivian Pickles as Isadora Duncan
- Peter Bowles as Paris Singer
- Alexei Jawdokimov as Sergei Yessenin
- Murray Melvin as Photographer
- Jeanne Le Bars as Wilma
- Alita Naughton as Journalist
- Sandor Elès as Bugatti
- Michael Palin as Jazz Band Undertaker (uncredited)
- Eric Idle as Jazz Band Chauffeur (uncredited)
Production
Sewell Stokes, a friend of the dancer towards the very end of her life when she was penniless and alone, wrote a memoir of his conversations with her, shortly after her death, entitled Isadora, an Intimate Portrait (1928). He narrates this film.[1] Two years after the first broadcast of the TV film, Vanessa Redgrave played the role of Isadora Duncan in the big-screen biopic Isadora.
Russell's biographer Joseph Lanza believes that "of all his television work, Isadora is his most accomplished". It explores his "ongoing theme of art being a thing of both glory and vulgarity"[2]
