The Duchess Of Duke Street is a Britishtelevision drama series transmitted by the BBC. The programme lasted for two series, shown between 1976 and 1977. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national publicly funded broadcaster of the United Kingdom. ... 1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). ...
The series was created by John Hawkesworth, the former producer of the highly successful ITV period drama Upstairs Downstairs and starred Gemma Jones as Louisa Trotter, the eponymous "Duchess" who works her way up from being a maid to the manager of the upper-class Bentinck Hotel in Duke Street, London. John Hawkesworth (c. ... Independent Television (ITV) is the name given to the original network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up to provide competition to the BBC. In England and Wales the channel was recently rebranded ITV1 by ITV plc who own the regional broadcasting licences for the regions. ... Upstairs, Downstairs was a 1970s British television series set in a grand Edwardian town house in London and depicting the events of the early twentieth century as they affected the servants (downstairs) and masters (upstairs). The concept of the series was created by Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins as a... Gemma Jones (born December 4, 1942, in London, England) is a respected character actress on both stage and screen. ...
Other prominent cast members in the series were Christopher Cazenove as Louisa's aristocratic lover Charles Tyrrell, and Lalla Ward as their illegitimate daughter Lottie. Christopher Cazenove (born December 1945) is a British cinema, television and stage actor. ... Lalla Ward (publicity portrait from 1990). ...
The Duchess of DukeStreet is the story of the rise of Louisa Leyton (Gemma Jones) from kitchen maid to the most famous cook in England.
Her hotel, the Bentinck on DukeStreet, is the turn of the century setting for her affair with Charlie Tyrell (Christopher Cazenove), her run-ins with family members, the activities of her high...
Her hotel, the Bentinck on DukeStreet, is the turn of the century setting for her affair with Charlie Tyrell (Christopher Cazenove), her run-ins with family members, the activities of her high society guests and the lives of her faithful staff.
The Duchess Of DukeStreet was a BBC television drama series.
The series was created by John Hawkesworth, the former producer of the highly successful ITV period drama Upstairs, Downstairs and starred Gemma Jones as Louisa Trotter, the eponymous "Duchess" who works her way up from servant to renowned cook to proprietress of the upper-class Bentinck Hotel in DukeStreet, London.
The story is loosely based on the real-life career of Rosa Lewis (née Ovenden), the "Duchess of Jermyn Street", who ran the Cavendish Hotel in London.
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