The Lady in the Van "The Lady in the Van" was greenlit on 3 June 2014, with TriStar Productions and BBC Films working together to make the film adaptation of Alan Bennett's West End hit. TriStar won the film rights to handle worldwide distribution, while the BBC was the first to show the film on television in the UK. The involvement of Maggie Smith and Nicholas Hytner was announced simultaneously with the film, but they were attached to the project as early as 9 May (coincidentally Bennett's 80th birthday). Both of them had collaborated with Bennett in the past; Hytner on "The Madness of King
The Law and the Lady (film) with them happily going off to do their short jail term before living happily ever after. According to MGM the movie earned $563,000 in the US and Canada and $797,000 elsewhere, resulting in a loss of $395,000. The Law and the Lady (film) The Law and the Lady is a 1951 American comedy film directed by Edwin H. Knopf, starring Greer Garson, Michael Wilding and Fernando Lamas, and based on the play "The Last of Mrs. Cheyney" by Frederick Lonsdale. The film is not related to the Wilkie Collins novel "The Law and the Lady". Jane Hoskins (Garson) has worked