Darling
Beautiful but amoral model Diana Scott sleeps her way to the top of the London fashion scene at the height of the Swinging Sixties. Young, attractive, and vivacious, model Diana Scott (Julie Christie)…
Darling
Beautiful but amoral model Diana Scott sleeps her way to the top of the London fashion scene at the height of the Swinging Sixties. Young, attractive, and vivacious, model Diana Scott (Julie Christie) is firmly determined to become rich and famous, and she does not hesitate to take bold steps to succeed. She finally strikes gold when she meets Robert Gold (Sir Dirk Bogarde), a well-known television journalist who not only introduces her into new social and professional circles, but also abandons his family to live with her. Diana seems to have happily combined success and love. However, in those roaring sixties, others are ready to offer her even more money, fame, and fun than Robert can. —Eduardo Casais <casaise@acm.org> 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. She is straightforward about the facts. She worked as a London-based model, most famously the Honeyglow girl, and had a moderately successful stint as an actress in small roles in commercials and films. She married her first husband Tony Bridges (T.R. 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. Although she and Robert never married, they lived together for some time. She and Robert split after she fell into an unplanned relationship with advertising executive Miles Brand (Laurence Harvey), the one who discovered her as the Honeyglow girl. She met her current husband, Prince Cesare della Romita (José Luis de Vilallonga) while she was working and vacationing in Italy. But behind these facts, she is less than forthright about her emotions in each of these moves, and the motivations for them. Were she forthright, she could expose herself as the vain, self-centered person she is--most understood by Miles, but someone Robert only began to understand too late. —Huggo Beautiful but easily-bored Diana Scott (Julie Christie) becomes a popular model and actress in London in the 1960s while toying with the affections of two older men, married television newsman Robert Gold (Sir Dirk Bogarde) and public-relations mastermind Miles Brand (Laurence Harvey). Although Diana is the toast of swinging London, the dark side of fame and fortune begins to take its toll, but escaping the mod scene proves harder than she expects. —Jwelch5742 Drifting through a seemingly-endless series of affairs, the jolly, beautiful young model and bit actress Diana Scott is everybody's darling in fashionable 1960s London. While married to immature Tony, immoral Diana leaves him for the earnest TV journalist, Robert Gold, only to realize that in the sophisticated circles of the rich and famous, fame and fortune always come at a price. Now, more and more, Diana's life seems tedious, empty, and--above all--lonely. Will she ever discover a life worth living? —Nick Riganas
Darling
Drama,Romance
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Beautiful but amoral model Diana Scott sleeps her way to the top of the London fashion scene at the height of the Swinging Sixties. Young, attractive, and vivacious, model Diana Scott (Julie Christie) is firmly determined to become rich and famous, and she does not hesitate to take bold steps to succeed. She finally strikes gold when she meets Robert Gold (Sir Dirk Bogarde), a well-known television journalist who not only introduces her into new social and professional circles, but also abandons his family to live with her.
Diana seems to have happily combined success and love. However, in those roaring sixties, others are ready to offer her even more money, fame, and fun than Robert can. —Eduardo Casais <casaise@acm.org> 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.
She is straightforward about the facts. She worked as a London-based model, most famously the Honeyglow girl, and had a moderately successful stint as an actress in small roles in commercials and films. She married her first husband Tony Bridges (T.R.
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. Although she and Robert never married, they lived together for some time. She and Robert split after she fell into an unplanned relationship with advertising executive Miles Brand (Laurence Harvey), the one who discovered her as the Honeyglow girl.
She met her current husband, Prince Cesare della Romita (José Luis de Vilallonga) while she was working and vacationing in Italy. But behind these facts, she is less than forthright about her emotions in each of these moves, and the motivations for them. Were she forthright, she could expose herself as the vain, self-centered person she is--most understood by Miles, but someone Robert only began to understand too late.
—Huggo Beautiful but easily-bored Diana Scott (Julie Christie) becomes a popular model and actress in London in the 1960s while toying with the affections of two older men, married television newsman Robert Gold (Sir Dirk Bogarde) and public-relations mastermind Miles Brand (Laurence Harvey). Although Diana is the toast of swinging London, the dark side of fame and fortune begins to take its toll, but escaping the mod scene proves harder than she expects. —Jwelch5742 Drifting through a seemingly-endless series of affairs, the jolly, beautiful young model and bit actress Diana Scott is everybody's darling in fashionable 1960s London.
While married to immature Tony, immoral Diana leaves him for the earnest TV journalist, Robert Gold, only to realize that in the sophisticated circles of the rich and famous, fame and fortune always come at a price. Now, more and more, Diana's life seems tedious, empty, and--above all--lonely. Will she ever discover a life worth living? —Nick Riganas.