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	Mrs. Brown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Brown is also the name of a song by Herman's Hermits.
		Brown, presumably for the benefit of people who might not understand the original title) is a 1997 movie starring Dame Judi Dench, Billy Connolly, Anthony Sher, and Gerard Butler.
		The film tells the story of Queen Victoria and her relationship with her servant, John Brown, and the scandal it produced (the nickname "Mrs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mrs._Brown (189 words)

	Mrs. Brown . Memphis Flyer . 09-22-97
		Brown, her portrayal of Victoria has a dazzling subtlety -- by turns, a fl hole of inconsolability, the most powerful monarch in the world who also happens to be a fragile human being in desperate need of a friend, and a woman torn between healing herself and preserving a historical tradition of government.
		The movie doesn't glamorize Brown or imply that he was without weaknesses, but it gets exactly right the profoundly moving, always unexpected, miracle of two souls who help one another feel a bit more at home on the planet.
		Brown is thoughtful and thought-provoking; and without resorting either to historical presumption or to cheap melodrama, it gives us a glimpse into the lives of ordinary human beings coping with extraordinary circumstances.
	www.filmvault.com /filmvault/memphis/m/mrsbrown1.html (449 words)

	Salon \| "Mrs. Brown"
		She summons Brown to her palace at Windsor (his permanent station was at Balmoral, the Royal Family's holiday home in Scotland) because he reminds her of her happier days in the Highlands with Albert.
		Brown's unceremonious manners (he calls her "woman") clash with the elaborate protocols of Windsor, but Victoria finds him bracing, and his protective devotion soothes her.
		"Mrs Brown" has the unfortunate effect of provoking speculation about all the other, much more fascinating movies that could have been made about these people -- the story of Victoria and Albert's marriage and her terrible loss and the tale of Disraeli's rise to power, for two.
	www.salon.com /july97/entertainment/moviebrown970725.html (699 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Mrs. Brown" review
		Their intimate friendship, and Brown's unwashed and unapologetic manner (he often addressed the Queen as "woman!"), became the stuff of scandal and gossip that threatened the stability of the crown.
		Soon the Queen's dearest friend and favored servant, Brown muscles to the head of the household and alienates the Prince of Wales, the Prime Minister (played with scene-stealing irony by Antony Sher) and most of the servants, but retains the Queen's ear and holds her heart.
		Brown" is a based on factual accounts of history, closeness of this relationship and the scope of it's impact are precariously balanced in suspense.
	www.hypogw.splicedwire.com /97reviews/mrsbrown.html (421 words)

	Jon Kennedy rates Mrs. Brown
		Brown is the poignant story of the re-entry into life of the grieving Queen Victoria (played with dignity and simplicity by well-known British theater actress Judi Dench) after the death in 1861 of her beloved husband, Prince Albert.
		The Queen takes a liking to Brown, who was also apparently a favorite of her late husband, choosing to make her first outing after Albert's death a visit to a commoner couple she and Brown have both previously been acquainted with, the Grants.
		Soon Brown is her best friend, protecting her from spying tabloid reporters who with the help of republican (that is, anti-monarchy) partisans in Parliament, have caught wind of the "scandalous relationship" the mourning widow has developed with a commoner.
	www.svtoday.com /svt/mrsbrown.htm (484 words)

	Mrs. Brown Movies Web Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Brown A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
		Brown Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
		Brown "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
	www.themoviesonline.com /Titles_M_Mrs._Brown.html (1437 words)

	Mrs. Brown
		Brown," which is itself as willfully discreet as the Queen's demeanor, goes on to describe a resonant and fascinating chapter in the middle of Victoria's 64-year reign.
		Brown" does not presume such a complete bond between Victoria and her servant, but it warmly appreciates the vicarious romance they may have had.
		Brown" transcends its period setting not only with a keenly observed struggle between love and duty but also with the kind of controversy that envelops the Queen and her servant.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/film/brown-film-review.html (896 words)

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		BROWN (eyes straight ahead, shouting back) Well, you tell Her Majesty from me, if her husband was here now, he'd have had her out of that house and getting some air in her.
		BROWN (briskly) She'll be away on Friday between eight o'clock and six in the evening to visit the Grants in Glasalt.
		MRS GRANT I'll not have her seeing it like it is! (beat) I know she means well, but I wish she'd warn us she was coming.
	home.online.no /~bhundlan/scripts/MrsBrown.txt (11273 words)

	Mrs. Brown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Now begins the dark era, the years of mourning, shaded in sepia and in Brown, for it's not long before the middle-aged Queen finds a new advisor (or does he find her?).
		In 1864, John Brown and his horse are brought from Scotland to Court to take over the renovation of a silent, unhappy and hermitic Queen.
		A kilted John Brown stands as a statue with his white horse (brought from Scotland for Victoria) where she can see him through the window.
	home.comcast.net /~maclark66/Brown.htm (475 words)

	Mrs. Brown's Washing
		Brown's smile was too forced at this point and Severus couldn't even meet her face.
		Brown with her gentle hands and supportive words were so far away.
		Brown, the couch waiting with blankets and pillows he knew were laid out in case he came back that night.
	www.sparklydanceboys.com /noblehouse/mrsbrown.html (4699 words)

	Review: Mrs. Brown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Brown, which is based on actual events and uses historical figures, transpires during one of the darkest periods of Victoria's reign -- a four year segment from 1864 to 1868 (with a brief epilogue in 1883).
		Brown's attitude of speaking what he thinks, regardless of the consequences, horrifies the servants and family.
		Brown is a fascinating character study, a wonderful love story, and a brilliant period piece (Masterpiece Theater and the BBC, both renowned for their costume dramas, are listed as co-producers).
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/m/mrs_brown.html (764 words)

	'Mrs. Brown' (PG)
		Brown," an engagingly genteel costume drama about her relationship with John Brown, the strapping Scots manservant who helps her overcome despair and return to public life.
		All that changes when she summons Brown (bonny Billy Connolly) to Windsor from less formal Balmoral Castle, where the affable Scotsman had become a favorite of her late husband.
		Brown" is classy fare, with posh settings, gorgeous scenery and lots and lots of polishing from director John Madden ("Ethan Frome") and writer Jeremy Brock.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/mrsbrownkempley.htm (420 words)

	Movies: Mrs. Brown - Margaret McGurk: The Cincinnati Enquirer
		That's one of the insights to be gleaned from the engaging British import Mrs.
		Against orders, Brown stands outside her window every day with her saddled horse until he draws the queen out of her castle for a ride.
		Brown succeeds in showing her as a human being, shaped by grief and saved by love.
	www.cincinnati.com /freetime/movies/mcgurk/mrsbrown.html (374 words)

	FILM REVIEW -- Driving Queen Vicky / Stylish `Mrs. Brown' paints Victoria as an English `Miss Daisy'
		Brown'' opens, it's 1864 and Victoria is still, after three years, mourning the death of her husband, Prince Albert.
		It isn't until her court hires Brown, a horseman who once served her husband, and whose job it is to give the queen some exercise and fresh air, that anyone dares to address her as a human being -- and nudge her lazy bones out of their royal torpor.
		Brown,'' which takes its title from the nickname Queen Victoria was given by her critics, succeeds on a number of levels.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1997/07/25/DD5330.DTL (632 words)

	Masterpiece Theatre \| Her Majesty Mrs. Brown \| The Making of the Film
		Brown is the true story of two people who defied convention, politics, and the rigid rules of royal life to touch one another.
		Brown and a native of Scotland, had long been intrigued by the story of the Scottish servant John Brown, who is historically know to have been one of Queen Victoria's closest and most unlikely friends.
		Brown shot in a couple of authentic location -- exteriors were shot at Osborne, which had been Victoria's holiday home in the Isle of Wight, and ballroom scenes were shot at Taymouth Castle, where Victoria had danced on her honeymoon with Albert.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/masterpiece/mbrown/ei_making.html (2199 words)

	Spirituality & Health: Movie Review: Mrs. Brown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Brown is a remarkably literate and sophisticated film.
		Then miraculously, John Brown (Billy Connolly), a Scottish servant who handles the royal family's horses and hunting expeditions, takes it upon himself to lift the spirits of the dour Queen.
		Brown helps this troubled widow find her way back to life by reintroducing her to the land and the simple folk who live upon it.
	www.spiritualityhealth.com /newsh/items/moviereview/item_982.html (234 words)

	Mrs. Brown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		As MRS BROWN begins, the year is 1864, and the British government is in dire turmoil.
		Ponsonby hopes that Brown will not only bring memories of happier days back to the Queen but also that his presence will encourage her to take some exercise and start to emerge from her mourning.
		In a secret meeting on a remote Scottish loch, Disraeli convinces Brown that there is only one way to truly save Victoria from danger: to have her return to public life and squelch all rumors of an unseemly affair.
	www.butlersguild.com /guests/films/mrs_brown.html (737 words)

	Amazon.ca: DVD: Mrs. Brown (Widescreen) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		John Brown's friendship with her is a fascinating relationship that grows from the beginning and culminates into Victoria's best friend, the most loved of advisors.
		BROWN is a film that is so exquisitely acted, so sensitive in its portrayal of grief and friendship and so lacking in artifice that it's almost impossible to find words glowing enough to describe it.
		BROWN belongs to Dench and Connolly, credit has to be given to screenwriter, Jeremy Brock and director, John Madden for keeping MRS.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000IQC6 (1242 words)

	Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter id (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Brown was the name of a greyhound that the boys wanted to race, but they need money to get the dog entered so they start performing songs in public.
		Brown You Have a Lovely Daughter" had the highest chart debut in history up to that time, hitting #1 on the Billboard charts within a month, which I find rather hard to believe given we are talking 1965 a.k.a.
		Brown, You've Got A Lovely Daughter», plus ten bonus tracks, three of which are lifted from the «Best Of Volume 3» MGM LP from 1968.
	ourlyrics.net /ID_B00004OCPR,10cc_meanwhile (904 words)

	Mrs. Brown
		Brown was a servant who put no stock in class divisions and the artificiality of social conventions -- his familiarity with the Queen (in fact no different from his direct and familiar manner of relating to everyone) was simply his manner.
		Brown (R) TV PG, L Airing July 22, 2001, on PBS (Check local listings.) Originally aired November 2000 She was the ruler of the...
		Browns of the world are very ambitious, and many of them would like to travel through space and...
	www.elipsiselectronics.com /630482615X/Mrs._Brown.html (1659 words)

	A pair of old pros rescue "Mrs. Brown' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Brown longs to serve his queen, but there is nothing servile about him.
		Soon they become so close that he takes over the running of her houses, ordering the rest of the servants around (they are not amused), controlling access to the queen and spending most of his time in the queen's delighted company.
		Not only was Brown a commoner the queen could never properly have had an affair with (if having an affair can be said to be proper), but also, the queen was always surrounded by servants.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1997/07/25/WEEKEND1611.dtl (587 words)

	Britmovie - Mrs. Brown 1997
		The story of Queen Victoria (Judi Dench) and plain speaking Scottish horseman, John Brown (Billy Connolly), who coaxed her out of her grief for her beloved Albert, director John Madden examines the balance of private life and public duty, but it is at heart a restrained and resonant love story.
		Brown is called upon to bring the royal widow out of her prolonged mourning and brighten her life.
		Brown applies himself to the task with such vigour - not only drawing the Queen out of her depression but also actually compelling her to enjoy herself.
	www.britmovie.co.uk /genres/drama/filmography/051.html (237 words)

	Mrs. Brown (1997) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Trivia: Gerard Butler (Archie) became hypothermic after filming the scene in which he and Billy Connolly (John Brown) run naked into the ocean.
		Goofs: Continuity: Brown stands outside the Queen's window with a horse, to try to entice her to ride.
		Seen from the ground, he is standing on the horse's offside but when viewed from Victoria's bedroom window, he is standing on the horse's nearside.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0119280 (387 words)

	CNN - 'Mrs. Brown' no hotbed of passion - September 12, 1997
		Brown," the story of the much-gossiped-about friendship between Queen Victoria and her stubborn Scottish manservant, John Brown, is a vividly photographed film that sometimes leans toward being about great, foaming-at-the- mouth passion.
		Public sentiment is beginning to rise against her when, in an act of desperation, Albert's beloved servant, Brown, is summoned to take care of the queen's horses.
		Brown's zest for life is viewed as something that could sully the reputation of the monarchy; at one point, there is a call for the "disestablishment" of that same monarchy, and there's even a scene where some pesky newspaper reporters are spying on the queen during a personal moment.
	cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/9709/12/mrs.brown.review (862 words)

	Masterpiece Theatre \| Her Majesty Mrs. Brown \| Victoria's Life in the Highlands
		It was upon this longstanding relationship of candor and trust with the royal couple that John Brown drew when he boldly stepped forward to coax Victoria back from her grief over Albert's death into a relationship with the living world.
		How much Brown had to do with motivating her to take on the project of publishing her account of those happy times is unknown.
		She had expected John Brown to outlive her and had built him a cottage at Balmoral for his retirement.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/masterpiece/mbrown/ei_highlands.html (1314 words)

	calendarlive.com: Mrs. Brown
		Brown" is to be believed, and there's no reason it shouldn't, Queen Victoria was quite a handful.
		Brown" is, not surprisingly, a decorous, always involving costume drama about a love too genteel to speak its name.
		Brown is called up in the hopes of breaking through Victoria's gloom, but at first he merely irritates her by his tendency to "speak how I find." As Stanley Weintraub wrote in his authoritative "Victoria: An Intimate Biography," Brown was "rough but shrewd [and] addicted to homely, outspoken observations that ignored rank and status."
	www.calendarlive.com /movies/reviews/cl-movie970718-5,2,2427025.story (781 words)

	Masterpiece Theatre \| Forum \| Mrs. Brown
		Brown came with his uncontrived and genuine human feelings and selfless concern for the widowed queen.
		An unsophisticated man among that crowd; he was both a threat and a victim.
		The film gave me the opportunity to see what the Lady must have gone through after the loss of her husband, and the comfort afforded her by Mr.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/masterpiece/forum/mbrown.html (308 words)

	Mrs. Brown -- 1996
		Brown,'' John Madden's new film about the strangely passionate relationship between Queen Victoria and her Scottish servant John Brown, is evidently the exception.
		Brown'' suggests that Brown had something of the same effect on Victoria, who in 1861 had slumped into depression and reclusion after the death of her husband, Prince Albert.
		Ignoring court protocol, he spoke to Victoria bluntly, even addressing her as ''woman.'' This at first provoked her indignation, but it slowly won her over, to the point that she considered him her best friend and he was running the court.
	www.djdchronology.com /mrsbrown.htm (2179 words)

	Whatsonstage.com : Whatsonstage.com: Mrs Brown's Last Wedding (tour) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Agnes Brown is the matriarchal Dublin 'mammy' who lives for her five grown up offspring.
		Mrs Brown has a foul mouth but says what many of us are thinking about society, the human race and parenthood, so keeps the audience nodding with recognition.
		Mrs Brown’s antics are not for those who are easily offended as the humour is close to the bone.
	www.whatsonstage.com /dl/page.php?chan=wos&page=greenroom&story=E8821079089340 (449 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: DVD: Her Majesty Mrs Brown [1997] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Mrs Brown's charm lies in the flinty give-and-take between the wonderfully starchy Judi Dench as Victoria and the robust Scottish comedian Billy Connolly, here playing it straight as a strong-willed Scotsman who comes to enjoy the power he wields by virtue of having the queen's ear.
		Brown who mange to bring her back to the world of the living.
		Brown succeeds in reaching the Queen, and a bond begins to grow between them, giving rise to scandal.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004CYQK (1127 words)

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