Barbara Castle Barbara Castle Barbara Anne Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, PC, GCOT ("née" Betts; 6 October 1910 – 3 May 2002) was a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Blackburn from 1945 to 1979, making her the longest-serving female MP in the history of the House of Commons until that record was broken in 2007 by Gwyneth Dunwoody. She later became the Member of the European Parliament for Greater Manchester from 1979 to 1989 and subsequently a member of the House of Lords, having been granted a life peerage in 1990. One of the most significant
The Man Who Lived at the Ritz the author's style, a "savor vivre" learned in Paris, perhaps, which makes these various modes cohere." "People" noted that "the ending ... is melodramatic, but the yarn is as easy to read as it will be to sit through the inevitable movie version". "The Man Who Lived at the Ritz" was adapted into a four-hour 1988 television miniseries starring Perry King as Philip. Directed by Desmond Davis with a teleplay by Gordon Cotler, it costarred Joss Ackland as Hermann Göring and Leslie Caron as Coco Chanel. Other cast members included Cherie Lunghi as Lili Gloebocka, David McCallum as Charlie Ritz,