Josephine Botting

Josephine Botting is curator, 20th century fiction, at the BFI National Archive.

Dr Josephine Botting

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Rarities of British cinema

The Woman in the Hall: rediscovering a 1940s ‘bad mother’ melodrama

Among a number of post-war British films testing the stereotypically wholesome depiction of mothers and daughters, The Woman in the Hall features Jean Simmons playing a young woman who is driven to crime by her mother’s dishonesty.

By Josephine Botting

The Woman in the Hall: rediscovering a 1940s ‘bad mother’ melodrama
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