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 Shameless Old Lady possible, and in doing so finds that she loves it. She blows her life savings, much to the disapproval of the young people around her. The Shameless Old Lady The Shameless Old Lady (Original title: La Vieille dame indigne) is a 1965 French film. Based on the short story "", written in 1939 by Bertolt Brecht, it was directed by René Allio and stars Sylvie and Victor Lanoux. Sylvie won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress for this role, one of her last and her only lead. Madame Berthe, a newly widowed 70-year-old miser, has lived