Lady Chatterley's Lover (2015 film) husband. The film stars Holliday Grainger as Lady Constance Chatterley, Richard Madden as Oliver Mellors, James Norton as Sir Clifford Chatterley, and Jodie Comer as Ivy Bolton. In UK newspaper "The Guardian", Sam Wollaston wrote of the film's opening scene, "Hang on, what mining disaster at the start of "Lady Chatterley’s Lover", you might ask, as I did. It has admittedly been an awful long time since I read it, and then I was probably just skimming for smut (imagine if today’s teens got their porn from DH Lawrence rather than the internet, they might think sex was something earthy
Lady Chatterley's Lover important tests of obscenity such as the Hicklin test. The judgement upheld the conviction, stating that: In the United States, the free publication of "Lady Chatterley's Lover" was a significant event in the "sexual revolution". At the time, the book was a topic of widespread discussion and a byword of sorts. In 1965, Tom Lehrer recorded a satirical song entitled "Smut", in which the speaker in the song lyrics cheerfully acknowledges his enjoyment of such material; "Who needs a hobby like tennis or philately?/I've got a hobby: rereading "Lady Chatterley"." British poet Philip Larkin's poem "Annus Mirabilis" begins with a