23 thoughts on “WCW: Jenny Agutter

  1. Buccaneers is my favorite, though I do enjoy Call the Midwife. Plus, The Buccaneers mini series starts out with a lament about not being noticed, that they might as well be in Kalamazoo. Which is my hometown, and this makes me laugh each time I hear it.

  2. Railway Children (2000) seems to have fringe/bangs girl from Lost in Austen. The fringe/bangs must be contractual!

  3. The Railway Children – the first one. Simply one of the best children’s movies ever made. You merely have to quote Jenny Agutter’s line on finally seeing her father arrive back home on the train, “Daddy! My Daddy!” and at least half the British population will tear up.

  4. I’ve never seen the Railway Children, sorry to say. She’s so beautiful and such a good actress, and I think her beauty adds a layer to her role in Call the Midwife – why’d she become a nun? She did have a true love. Anyway, I’m a huge fan of that series, one of the most feminist on TV.

  5. I came here to say that. To this day, the first Railway Children movie is one of the few to bring me to tears. “Daddy! My Daddy!” is the culmination of a perfect film. If you haven’t seen it, you’re missing a treat.
    And then she’s doing Call The Midwife, which I love! The costumes for that are fab, too.

  6. It’s unclear in the book of The Riddle of the Sands how old Clara Dollmann is supposed to be, but she must be mid-teens at least. However, the plot does require her to be totally innocent and unsuspecting of her traitor father’s involvement in Imperial Germany’s dastardly invasion plans, and I would guess that the decision was made to costume her as not-yet-‘out’, with hair down under simple sailor hats and tam-o’-shanters; to underline this. This was probably a smart move, because if she had been shown swanning around in fully-adult Edwardian coiffures, she might have carried less conviction as an ingenue.

  7. Not a costume flick, but my favorite of hers is “Logan’s Run”. In fact, I was just watching it the other night. Cheesy 70’s goodness!

    1. SAME!!! I love her in everything, but Logan’s Run was just so SO. as for always whipping off her underwear, I think we know enough about the appalling treatment of women in the acting profession now to realise there’s a whole lot of yuk and probably not much agency behind that.

  8. Believe it or not, “A Respectable Trade” is not a bad book (at least, not for PFG). Good story line, strong conflicts, social conscience, etc. “Other Boleyn Girl” was when PFG starting sinking, lower and lower and dot dot dot

    1. I agree–very fine script, well acted, great costumes, important (and not well covered on screen) subject.

  9. I’ve always like her in anything she’s done. I’m going for “The Man in the Iron Mask,” not necessarily for the women’s costumes (the second one looks like the living room drapes with the pullbacks), but for Richard Chamberlain, one of the few men who could carry off the silly late 17th century costumes without looking like a total prat. Jenny Agutter has always been a class act on the screen.

  10. I’m most familiar with her in Call the Midwife. I would like to see some of these other roles. Must search streaming services.

  11. Would like to suggest one of my favorites, Susan Hampshire, for WCW. She was stellar in The Pallisers, also played Becky Sharpe in Vanity Fair, Fleur in Forsyte Saga, and starred in the Grand, as well as other frock flicks. Anna Massey is another of my favorites, with her roles in Mansfield Park, He Knew he was Right and the Pallisers among others.

  12. I simply love Jenny. She is a class act and thanks for the post so I can find more of her films to watch. I watched Logan’s Run recently, and she was just so pretty. And a wacky film at that!

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