Padme's Library: 📘🎥Friday's Film Adaptation🎥📘: Thank You, Jeeves by PG Wodehouse

Friday, March 29, 2019

📘🎥Friday's Film Adaptation🎥📘: Thank You, Jeeves by PG Wodehouse

Summary:
"P. G. Wodehouse wrote the best English comic novels of the century." —Sebastian Faulks

Thank You, Jeeves is the first novel to feature the incomparable valet Jeeves and his hapless charge Bertie Wooster - and you've hardly started to turn the pages when he resigns over Bertie's dedicated but somewhat untuneful playing of the banjo. In high dudgeon, Bertie disappears to the country as a guest of his chum Chuffy - only to find his peace shattered by the arrival of his ex-fiancee Pauline Stoker, her formidable father and the eminent loony-doctor Sir Roderick Glossop. When Chuffy falls in love with Pauline and Bertie seems to be caught in flagrante, a situation boils up which only Jeeves (whether employed or not) can simmer down...A display of sustained comic brilliance, this novel shows Wodehouse rising to the top of his game.

Chuffy(Episode 4 of Season 2)
Jeeves gives notice when Bertie plans to continue his less-than-inspired horn playing during a country vacation. Chuffy rents Bertie a country cottage and hires Jeeves as his new gentleman's gentleman. Chuffy is in love with an American heiress and distressed when he discovers she was once engaged to Bertie.

Release Date: May 5, 1991
Release Time: 51 minutes

Cast:
Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster

Stephen Fry as Jeeves
James Holland as Dwight Stoker
Sharon Holm as Pauline Stoker
Manning Redwood as J Washburn Stoker
Matthew Solon as Chuffy Chuffnell
Edward Holmes as Seabury Chuffnell
Fidelis Morgan as Myrtle Chuffnell
Fred Evans as Brinkley
Dave Atkins as Voules
William Waghorn as Dobson
John Levitt as Mangelhoffer
John Rutland as Henberry
Merelina Kendall as Miss Daly

Kidnapped(Episode 5 of Season 2)
Barmy has put together a group of alleged musicians to play in blackface at his aunt's 50th anniversary party. Pauline, in London, is alarmed because a man is following her, so Bertie is drafted to escort her to Chuffnell Hall in her car.

Release Date: May 12, 1991
Release Time: 49 minutes

Cast:
Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster
Stephen Fry as Jeeves
Roger Brierley as Sir Roderick Glossop
Jane Downs as Lady Glossop
James Holland as Dwight Stoker
Sharon Holm as Pauline Stoker
Manning Redwood as J Washburn Stoker
Matthew Solon as Chuffy Chuffnell
Edward Holmes as Seabury Chuffnell
Fidelis Morgan as Myrtle Chuffnell
Martin Clunes as Barmy
Richard Dixon as Oofy
Dave Atkins as Voules
William Waghorn as Dobson
Cynthia Grenville as Aunt Hilda
Gordon Salkilld as Station Master
Michael Ripper as Drones Porter
Raymond Young as Porter
Marlene Sidaway as Pub Landlady
Colin Pinney as Butler

Author Bio:
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE, was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and continues to be widely read over 40 years after his death. Despite the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent in France and the United States, Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of prewar English upper-class society, reflecting his birth, education, and youthful writing career.

An acknowledged master of English prose, Wodehouse has been admired both by contemporaries such as Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by modern writers such as Douglas Adams, Salman Rushdie and Terry Pratchett. Sean O'Casey famously called him "English literature's performing flea", a description that Wodehouse used as the title of a collection of his letters to a friend, Bill Townend.

Best known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a talented playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of fifteen plays and of 250 lyrics for some thirty musical comedies. He worked with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes (1934) and frequently collaborated with Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton. He wrote the lyrics for the hit song "Bill" in Kern's Show Boat (1927), wrote the lyrics for the Gershwin - Romberg musical Rosalie (1928), and collaborated with Rudolf Friml on a musical version of The Three Musketeers (1928).