THE DUCHESS OF DUKE STREET: SERIES 1

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• Release Year: 1979
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Born into the servant class, Louisa Leyton makes good on her vow to become the finest cook in turn-of-the-century London. She rises from the scullery to become chef de cuisine to the rich and famous as well as manager of the most elegant-- and discreet-- hotel in town without ever losing her Cockney accent or attitude. Along the way, her beauty and high spirits capture the attention of powerful men who instruct her in the complicated social code of the times. ; ; Based on the true story of Rosa Lewis, a culinary genius and owner of the venerable Cavendish Hotel, this acclaimed BBC series depicts the elegant food and fashions of the Edwardian era in entertaining stories full of romance and intrigue. Created by John Hawkesworth (Upstairs Downstairs) and starring Gemma Jones (Briget Jones's Diary, Sense and Sensibility) as Louisa and Christopher Casenove (A Knight's Tale, TV's Dynasty) as Charlie, the dashing love of her life.; ;
• Cast: Gemma Jones; Victoria Plucknett; John Welsh; John Cater; Richard Vernon; Mary Healey; Christopher Cazenove; Sammie Winmill; Holly De Jong; June Brown; Bryan Coleman; John Rapley; Lalla Ward; Christine Pollon; James Woolley; Jessica Benton; Donald Burton; Michael Culver; Doreen Mantle; Joanna David; Patrick Newell; Stephen Kemble; Anthony Roye; Simon Chandler; Charles Rogers; Kate Lansbury; John Horsley; Jan Francis; George Pravda; Roger Hammond; Susan Brown; Jennifer Daniel; John Dunbar; Ernest Hare; Michael Hawkins; Derek Martin; Arnold Peters; Geoffrey Staines; Madeleine Cannon; Brenda Cowling; Iain Cuthbertson; Marsha Fitzalan; John Moreno; Sue Nicholls; Pauline Quirke; Liz Smith; Anthony Andrews; Robert Hardy; James Laurenson; Leigh Lawson; Maureen O'Brien; Sally Osborne; Angharad Rees; Anton Rodgers; Elizabeth Shepherd; Derek Smith; Thorley Walters; Christopher Guard; Paul Curran; Peter Graves; Ronald Lacey; Alan MacNaughton; Ed Devereaux; Lionel Guyett; Belinda Carroll; Peter Cellier; Barrie Cookson; Mary MacLeod; Zelah Clarke; Reginald Marsh; Margaretta Scott; Noel Coleman; Noel Howlett; Richard Leech; Hilary Mason; Elizabeth Bennett; Alan Clements; Edna Doré; John Gabriel; Sally Lahee; Venetia Maxwell; Donald Morley; Susan Porrett; Juliet Waley; James Coyle; Patrick Durkin; Norman Eshley; Andrew Knox; Richard Longman; Tony Meyer; Robert Mill; Christopher Biggins; David Crosse; Hilda Fenemore; Gillian Lewis; Toni Palmer; Robin Wentworth; Rafiq Anwar; Joan Benham; Gerald Case; Gordon Christie; Mel Churcher; Frank Tregear; Arthur White; Simone Francis; Minoo Golvala; Hubert Rees; Neville Barber; Roger Ostime; Donald Pelmear; Margaret Ward; Timothy Bateson; James Bree; Peter Vaughan-Clarke; Leonard Woodrow; Tiffany Evans; Malcolm Taylor; Katie Allan; Rosamund Greenwood; John Quayle; Edwin Brown; Terence Brook; Dominic Allan; Paul Aston; Hazel Bainbridge; Peter Bale; Geoffrey Bayldon; Richard Beale; Elizabeth Benson; Mark Blackwell Baker; Stephen Bone; Lally Bowers; Osmund Bullock; Anna Calder-Marshall; Jeremy Clyde; Ian Collier; Angela Curran; Frank Duncan; Dennis Edwards; Derek Farr; Julian Fellowes; William Fox; Rosemary Frankau; Bernard Gallagher; Felicity Gibson; Alan Gifford; Christopher Good; Garrick Hagon; Edward Hammond; Joan Harsant; Joan Haythorne; William Hoyland; Peter Jessup; Peter Jolly; Freddie Jones; Gordon Kane; Robin Langford; Victoria Locock; Richard Long; Barbara Lott; Ronald Markham; John Scott Martin; Martin Matthews; Charmian May; Judi Maynard; Anthony McEvoy; T.P. McKenna; Kevin McNally; Hilary Minster; Richard Morant; Andrew Neil; David Neville; Jeremy Nicholas; Reggie Oliver; Daphne Oxenford; Richard Pearson; Timothy Peters; Raymond Platt; Jacqueline Reddin; Harold Reese; Francis Reneau; Ivor Roberts; Renee Roberts; Evan Ross; Ronald Russell; Helen Ryan; Philippa Shackleton; Martin Shaw; Keith Smith; Anthony Stafford; Maureen Sweeney; Julia Swift; Edward Underdown; Molly Veness; John Vine; Peter Whitaker; Eilian Wyn; Harry Fielder; Bill Bain; Simon Langton; Gerry Mill; John Hawkesworth; Jeremy Paul; Julia Jones; Rosemary Anne Sisson; Bill Craig; Maggie Wadey; Julian Bond; David Butler; Jack Rosenthal; Ken Taylor
• Director: Bill Bain
• Runtime: 13:01
• Company: Acorn Media
• Media Format: Series