Shelagh Delaney

Shelagh Delaney

Birth : 1938-11-25, Salford, Lancashire, England

Death : 2011-11-20

History

Shelagh Delaney, FRSL was an English dramatist and screenwriter, best known for her debut work, A Taste of Honey.

Profile

Shelagh Delaney

Movies

The Railway Station Man
Writer
An Irish artist, widowed by an IRA bombing, gradually learns that the American man she has become involved with is not who he seems.
Dance with a Stranger
Writer
Ruth Ellis lives with her ten-year old son Andy next to a night club. One night she meets David Blakely, and they start a love affair. However, for David with his upper-class background, it is impossible to uphold the relationship. He breaks up with her, something which makes Ellis, obsessed by him, very upset.
Red, White, and Zero
Screenplay
Composed of three shorts – Ride of the Valkyrie, The White Bus, and Red and Blue – from three of Britain’s most-celebrated directors - Lindsay Anderson, Peter Brook, and Tony Richardson. Comic legend Zero Mostel stars as an opera singer (in full costume) navigating the London transport network as he attempts to reach Covent Garden in 'Ride of the Valkyrie'. Scripted by Shelagh Delaney, 'The White Bus' blends realism, drama, and poetry as a despondent young woman travels home to the North of England. And Vanessa Redgrave stars in Tony Richardson’s romantic reverie and musical featurette 'Red and Blue'. Produced in 1967, but ultimately shelved.
Red, White, and Zero
Story
Composed of three shorts – Ride of the Valkyrie, The White Bus, and Red and Blue – from three of Britain’s most-celebrated directors - Lindsay Anderson, Peter Brook, and Tony Richardson. Comic legend Zero Mostel stars as an opera singer (in full costume) navigating the London transport network as he attempts to reach Covent Garden in 'Ride of the Valkyrie'. Scripted by Shelagh Delaney, 'The White Bus' blends realism, drama, and poetry as a despondent young woman travels home to the North of England. And Vanessa Redgrave stars in Tony Richardson’s romantic reverie and musical featurette 'Red and Blue'. Produced in 1967, but ultimately shelved.
The House That Jack Built
Writer
For Jack, the dream was to live in a castle with grounds big enough to ride a horse for two hours. For Lu, it was the dream of love. Shelagh Delaney's drama Charts 10 years of a marriage from wedding night to the present day
Charlie Bubbles
Writer
Charlie Bubbles, a writer, up from the working class of Manchester, England, who, in the course of becoming prematurely rich and famous, has mislaid a writer's basic tool – the capacity to feel and to respond. Now he must visit his estranged wife and son, whom he has set up on a farm outside his native city. His journey accidentally becomes an attempt to reestablish his connections with life, people, and his own history.
-about 'The White Bus'
Self
Follows the creation of Lindsay Anderson's The White Bus (1968), from pre-production to the shoot and in post.
The White Bus
Screenplay
A despondent young woman travels home to the North of England.
The White Bus
Story
A despondent young woman travels home to the North of England.
A Taste of Honey
Screenplay
A working class girl struggles to create a life for herself with her gay co-worker after becoming pregnant from a one-night stand with a black sailor.
A Taste of Honey
Original Story
A working class girl struggles to create a life for herself with her gay co-worker after becoming pregnant from a one-night stand with a black sailor.
Shelagh Delaney's Salford
Herself
Short documentary about Shelagh Delaney and her hometown Salford.