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Sylvia Llewelyn-Davies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sylvia Llewelyn-Davies (1866-1910) was daughter of George du Maurier, and mother of the boys who served as the inspiration for Peter Pan and the other children of J. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sylvia_Llewelyn-Davies   (107 words)

J. M. Barrie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Llewelyn-Davies family consisted of the parents Arthur (1863–1907) and Sylvia, née Du Maurier (1866–1910) (daughter of George du Maurier) and their five sons George Llewelyn-Davies (1893–1915), Jack Llewelyn-Davies (1894–1959), Peter Llewelyn-Davies (1897–1960), Michael Llewelyn-Davies (1900–1921), and Nicholas Llewelyn-Davies or Nico (1903–1980). It is considered a faithful biopic, which includes Arthur Llewelyn-Davis (Tim Piggot-Smith) and confronts the issue of Barrie's affection for the Davies boys. It starred Ian Holm as Barrie and Ann Bell as Sylvia. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/J._M._Barrie   (1040 words)

An Awfully Big Adventure Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, the wife of a young barrister. Sylvia told Barrie that her son would come home with their nurse, Mary, who told her about a man who entertained the Davies boy by "wiggling his ears and perform[ing] magic tricks with his eyebrows" and telling him stories about fairies, murders, pirates, and treasure. Davies' life was an unhappy one; despite many attempts to distance himself, he felt the Never Never Land pirate-killer overshadowed him. www.amrep.org /past/peter/peter1.html   (3082 words)

The Popcorn Chronicles His personal and professional lives are saved when he meets widow Sylvia Llewelyn Davies and her four young sons, who become the inspiration for his masterwork, PETER PAN. Llewelyn Davies as a widow, but that didn’t mean he was in any way involved in a torrid affair. Llewelyn Davies died in 1907 and his wife in 1910. popcornchronicles.com /pop5neverland.htm   (1135 words)

Times Newspapers Online: This Week's Reel World Movie Review When James meets Sylvia Llewelyn Davies (Kate Winslet) and her children - Peter (Freddie Highmore), Jack (Joe Prospero), George (Nick Roud) and Michael (Luke Spill), it provides inspiration for his next play and makes him realize his marriage is loveless and without passion. Sylvia is a widow struggling to make ends meet, therefore James' friendship with Sylvia and her children is frowned upon. James' passion for writing is never seen, the main character's motivation is missing, Sylvia's and Jame's slow escalation of feelings for each other is never shown, their first meeting is quaint and then at the conclusion, James shows his feelings for Sylvia too late. www.timesnewspapers.com /reelworld/findingneverland.html   (609 words)

Peter Pan - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia Barrie created Peter Pan in stories he told to the sons of his friend Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, with whom Barrie had forged a special relationship. The character's name comes from Peter, at the time the youngest of the Llewelyn Davies boys, and from Pan, the Greek god of the woodlands. Peter Pan first appeared in print in a 1902 book called The Little White Bird, a fictionalised version of Barrie's relationship with the Llewelyn Davies children, and was then used in a very successful 1904 stage play, Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, which premiered in London on December 27, 1904. encyclopedia.learnthis.info /p/pe/peter_pan.html   (1079 words)

Movie-Vault.com: Print Review Another important member of Sylvia’s family we meet is her mother, Mme Emma du Maurier (played with grim disapproval by Julie Christie), whom Mary hopes will serve as a significant social contact and so asks her and the Llewelyn Davies to dinner. Based on the real Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, her decision near the end of the film is what the historical Sylvia decided in the same situation. Kate Winslet’s Sylvia is exactly the kind of mother everyone needs. www.movie-vault.com /archive/printreview.pl?action=moviereview&movieid=KSRegUpyOGRGfiqR   (885 words)

Finding Neverland movies : ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY Sylvia, played by Winslet with a winsome melancholy, has no income to speak of and must therefore kowtow to the wishes of her mother, Emma du Maurier (Julie Christie), a puritan scold who serves the same wet-blanket function within the Llewelyn Davies home that Barrie's wife does in his. He sees the four Llewelyn Davies boys jump up and down on their beds in a pillow fight and imagines them floating out the window — a beautiful notion that, for some reason, becomes almost a trivial afterthought when the young actors begin to fly around on their wires on stage. Finding Neverland is a caressingly sweet literary fairy tale ''inspired by true events'' (though there's evidence that Barrie and Sylvia were not, in fact, platonic). www.ew.com /ew/article/review/movie/0,6115,780728_1_0_,00.html   (926 words)

KateWinsletFan.com - your #1 source for everything Kate Winslet When Barrie meets young widow Sylvia Llewelyn Davies (Kate Winslet), he is enchanted by her vivacity. In real life, the Davies boys’ father was still alive when they met Barrie, later dying of cancer, and three of the brothers (there were actually five, not four) had sad fates. Sylvia’s mother (Julie Christie, playing a small, but strong part after being wasted in Troy) wonders why Barrie has taken a liking to her family, including her daughter whose sudden ailment could turn serious. www.katewinsletfan.com /?p=4   (1195 words)

The Memphis Flyer :: the mid-south's news weekly: Film: Film Feature: Make-Believe One day, while walking in the park, Barrie comes across widowed mother Sylvia Llewelyn Davies (Kate Winslet) and her four boys, and it is not long before his aching, starving heart is filled with affection for Sylvia and these sons that he never had. Barrie's affection for Sylvia is odd chaste, really and it is almost as though he loves her more as the mother she is to her boys than anything sexual or even romantic. Sylvia's youngest son, Peter (Freddie Highmore), is a serious young man hardest hit by his father's death. www.memphisflyer.com /gyrobase/Content?oid=oid:6068   (812 words)

Observer Lost Boys' relatives sprinkle scepticism on Hollywood's version of Barrie's life When Barrie first meets Sylvia she is recently widowed, having lost her husband to cancer; in reality, Arthur Llewelyn Davies was still very much alive and, according to some accounts, suspicious of the man lavishing so much affection on his wife and children. The movie stars American heart-throb Johnny Depp as Barrie, who was Scottish, and Kate Winslet as Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, whose sons inspired the characters of Peter Pan and the Lost Boys, first seen in 1904. The film portrays four Llewelyn Davies boys, when in truth there were five. observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5030354-102285,00.html   (789 words)

print_article.jsp?article=2472275 Forster subtly works in dream-sequence images (like that scene of James and Mary at their doorways) to show how incidents in Barrie's life and his encounters with the Llewelyn Davies clan became infused into the story of Peter Pan. Barrie's relationship with Sylvia and her boys raises eyebrows in Edwardian London - especially from Mary and from Sylvia's imperious mother (Julie Christie). Barrie soon befriends Sylvia and the boys, especially the 12-year-old Peter (Freddie Highmore), still grieving for his father by being too serious for play and imagination. www.sltrib.com /portlet/article/html/fragments/print_article.jsp?article=2472275   (465 words)

The State News - www.statenews.com The film is actually the story of J.M. Barrie, the author and playwright of "Peter Pan." Johnny Depp plays the man who neglects his own wife to spend time with the widow Sylvia Llewelyn Davies and her four young sons. The four Davies children steal the screen, however, especially Freddie Highmore as the overly serious Peter Llewelyn Davies. His games with the Davies children are brought to life on screen as he becomes a circus ringmaster or a scurvy pirate captain (although not the notorious Captain Jack Sparrow). www.statenews.com /print.phtml?pk=27057   (572 words)

Tookeys Film Guide - Film Reviews since 1902 Barrie found a kind of deliverance from his lonely marriage in four boys (there were five in real life) and their recently widowed mother, Sylvia Llewelyn Davies (Kate Winslet), whom he met by chance in Kensington Gardens. Freddie Highmore (pictured right) is sensational as Peter Llewelyn Davies, who was not only the inspiration for Peter Pan, the boy who wouldn’t grow up, but also that character’s antithesis (because of his father’s death, he had grown up more than a child of his age should have had to). Sylvia is trying to get the boys to go to bed; as Barrie watches they jump on their beds, and in his mind he sees them bounce off the beds and fly out of the window. www.tookeysfilmguide.com /Film.asp?ID=14134   (2295 words)

Memorable Quotes from Finding Neverland (2004) Sylvia Llewelyn Davies: You must have frightened her to death. Sylvia Llewelyn Davies: Have him to saty for supper Micheal we arent cannibals. Jack Llewelyn Davies: My name be Nibs the Cutthroat, feared by man and greatly desired by the ladies. www.imdb.com /title/tt0308644/quotes   (1548 words)

'Finding Neverland' Sylvia Llewelyn-Davies (played by Kate Winslet), the widowed mother of four boys, and her family inspire Barrie to write his most popular play ever while he inspires the family to imagine a more hopeful future. His relationship with Sylvia Llewelyn-Davies is portrayed as completely platonic. His marriage to a former actress appears to be loveless from the start of the movie. www.cbn.com /entertainment/Screen/Elliott_FindingNeverland.asp   (855 words)

Du Maurier Family Papers [Archive Descriptions] - University of Exeter Library and Information Service Sylvia Llewelyn-Davies (nee du Maurier) (1867-1910) was another of the five children of George du Maurier, and elder sister to Gerald. A duplicate copy of the Sylvia Llewelyn-Davies memorial photograph album (EUL MS 207/3/1) is held at the National Portrait Gallery. Also included are papers relating to Sylvia du Maurier (sister to Gerald) and Angela du Maurier (sister to Daphne), as well as to many other lesser-known family members. www.library.ex.ac.uk /special/guides/archives/201-210/207_01.html   (1187 words)

Maoist movie reviews: "Finding Neverland" In "Finding Neverland," Barrie seems to create problems for the Davies by involving himself with their family, for example, the gossip about his relationship with Sylvia, but the idea at the end of the movie is that he was needed after all. Sylvia has a bad "chest cold," but insists to her children that it's no big deal. "Finding Neverland" pretends to be concerned with the best interests and perspective of one child, Peter Davies, but leaves the oppression of children under the patriarchy virtually untouched and is patronizing toward children in general. www.etext.org /Politics/MIM/movies/long/findingneverland.html   (1546 words)

Dermanities - Articles Sylvia, refreshed by the burst of energy that Barrie provides her family, rejoices silently that her boys have found a pseudo-father. Sylvia's overbearing mother (Julie Christie) criticizes Barrie for being nothing more than an adult who needs to grow up, and tries to keep him from her family when she begins to feel her daughter falling for him. Sylvia's illness flares on the opening night of Peter Pan, and she finds herself unable to summon the strength to attend. www.dermanities.com /detail.asp?article=160   (696 words)

Finding Neverland DVD Review Sylvia's mother (Julie Christie) also disapproves of the antics, remaining concerned that Barrie's presence is inhibiting Sylvia's already-challenging task of making ends meet without a husband or a job. (The Davies boys jumping around in their beds become the children who defy gravity and fly out the window, and so on.) But the journey there is a delightful and compelling story of creation. This is the start of a beautiful friendship, in which the child inside Barrie stimulates the imagination of the Davies boys. www.ultimatedisney.com /findingneverland.html   (1911 words)

The Straight Dope: Was the author of "Peter Pan" a pedophile? The children Barrie was fondest of were the young sons of Arthur and Sylvia Llewelyn Davies. Ever in need of material, Barrie began incorporating his experiences with the Llewelyn Davieses into his work. Barrie charmed Sylvia as he had charmed her kids and soon insinuated himself into the household, visiting frequently and joining the family on holidays, somewhat to the distress of Mary and Arthur. www.straightdope.com /columns/041119.html   (880 words)

Fametracker :: Blue Moons :: From the Future :: Best Picture Nominees Turned TV Series: 2008-09 But it's not all cowboys an Indians in the courtyard and triumphs on the West End for the now-blended Llewelyn Davies Barrie clan: Sylvia's poor health threatens the family's happiness in a new way with each episode, as she battles croup, hysteria, rickets, housemaid's knee, and the newly identified tennis elbow. Grieving widow Sylvia Llewelyn Davies (Melissa George) has an overbearing mother (Cloris Leachman), a mountain of debt, and a houseful of rambunctious orphan boys. Naturally, Sylvia and James's platonic friendship soon grows into passionate love, and he leaves his social-climbing wife (Cheryl Hines), marries Sylvia, and adopts the boys, who become his muses and inspire ever more fanciful stage plays. www.fametracker.com /blue_moons/future_2005_02_22.shtml   (1232 words)

Reeling: The Movie Review Show's review of Finding Neverland As James’s love for the Llewelyn Davies family nurtures and grows, his marriage to his wife, Mary (Radha Mitchell), continues to deteriorate. Soon Barrie is delighting the Llewelyn Davies family by dancing with Wolfie, his Newfoundland dog - that is delighting all but one. The socially conscious Mary is taken aback by her husband’s friendship with the pretty young widow and her boys and can’t cope with the scrutiny on her marriage by those casting judgments about her. www.reelingreviews.com /findingneverland.htm   (1544 words)

The New York Times > Movies > Movie Review 'Finding Neverland': A Never-Impolite Land Where One Never Grows Up Based on the play by Allan Knee, "The Man Who Was Peter Pan," and directed by Marc Forster, the film mainly concerns the period during which Barrie met and befriended Sylvia Llewelyn Davies (Kate Winslet) and her brood of boys. Sylvia is already widowed in David Magee's screenplay and more the obvious focus of the writer's attention than her children. Winslet are pleasant to watch, as are the actors who play the Davies boys, but they haven't been pushed to their limits. www.nytimes.com /2004/11/12/movies/12neve.html?ex=1258002000&en=00a98f40aa05e48b&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt   (1300 words)

U-Daily Bulletin - On DVD / Video This hunger for the adventure of the Llewelyn Davies' world only helps to further deteriorate his own marriage, while his attentions to Sylvia and her family are raising eyebrows and sparking rumors of indiscretions — with both the widow and her children. Then he meets a widow, Sylvia Llewelyn Davies (Kate Winslet), and her four sons. The relationship has also brought opposition from Sylvia's mother (Julie Christie). u.dailybulletin.com /Stories/0,1413,212~30819~2774538,00.html   (1208 words)

Finding Neverland - Johnny Depp page 26 His confidence as a playwright shattered, Barrie takes a walk in Kensington Park, where he encounters beautiful but ailing widow Sylvia Llewelyn Davies (Kate Winslet) and her four sons, including Peter (Freddie Highmore), who is frustrated with himself for not being strong enough to deal with his father's recent death. But it is through Barrie's dealings with Llewelyn Davies that he regroups and moves on to write his next play, Peter Pan, inspired by the family. As pointed out by critics elsewhere, Sylvia wasn't a widow at the time when the film is set and Barrie is said to have shown too intense an interest in Sylvia's children, which freaked out some of those around him. www.ohjohnny.net /neverland/neverland26.html   (3441 words)

Finding Neverland Soon after, during one of his daily walks in Kensington Gardens, Barrie unexpectedly meets recent widow Sylvia Llewelyn Davies (Kate Winslet) and her four boys. He is attracted to Sylvia as well as the world of make believe that he creates for her boys, involving various disguises, childhood games, and even kite flying. The relationship manages to grow in spite of the jealousy of his wife Mary (Radha Mitchell of "Phone Booth") and the boys’ grandmother Emma du Maurier (a luminous Julie Christie). www.reelmoviecritic.com /rmc/F/finding_neverland.htm   (504 words)

Movie Database - tvguide.com While walking his enormous dog in Kensington Gardens, he meets the widowed Sylvia Llewelyn Davies (Kate Winslet) and her four young sons, George (Nick Roud), Jack (Joe Prospero), Peter (Freddie Highmore) and Michael (Luke Spill). The situation appalls Sylvia's starchy mother (Julie Christie), further alienates Barrie's wife and sets proper tongues a-wagging — his relationship with the lovely widow or his interest in her budding boys must surely be improper, unsavory or both. Barrie is irresistibly enchanted by this quick-witted, exuberant gaggle of boys whose mother, in defiance of all conventional Edwardian child-rearing wisdom, has steadfastly refused to stifle their imaginations or curb their natural high spirits. online.tvguide.com /movies/database/Movie-Review.asp?MI=45785   (341 words)

Palo Alto Online: Movie Screener Results Sylvia is no stranger to struggle herself, having recently lost her husband and reeling over the shock of being left a single parent to four boys. Despite the fact that he's a married man, he develops a close friendship with Sylvia and becomes a surrogate father to her boys, inventing an elaborate fantasy world of pirates, cowboys and kings for his young and fatherless friends. Ditto Depp's bond with the lads, in particular Sylvia's son, Peter (Freddie Highmore), on whom his character of Pan is based. www.paloaltoonline.com /movies/cgi/moviescreener_long.cgi?id=2071   (429 words)

Science Fiction Movie and TV Reviews During a retreat at Barrie's summer home, Sylvia falls ill. Meanwhile, Mary presents Barrie with an ultimatum: Spend less time with the Llewelyn Davies family and more with me. Or else. As Barrie grows closer to the Llewelyn Davies family, he hears that others in his tight social circle have started to cluck their tongues and wonder whether he has an unhealthy interest in the boys or their mother. In the place of the undoubtedly messy reality of Barrie's life and relations with the Llewelyn Davies, the audience instead gets a tidy recounting of Peter Pan's genesis in the string of "perfect days" that Barrie shared with the family, interspersed with fleeing moments of sanitized sturm-and-drang, mainly in the person of Christie's caricatured grandmother. www.scifi.com /sfw/issue395/screen2.html   (806 words)

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