Melba (miniseries)
Appearance
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Melba | |
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Written by | Roger McDonald |
Directed by | Rodney Fisher |
Starring | Linda Cropper Hugo Weaving Googie Withers |
Country of origin | Australia |
Original language | English |
No. of episodes | 4 x 2 hours |
Production | |
Producers | Errol Sullivan Pom Oliver |
Running time | 248 mins |
Budget | $8 million[1] |
Original release | |
Network | Network Seven |
Release | 22 March 1988 |
Melba is a 1988 Australian mini series about opera soprano (Dame) Nellie Melba.[1]
Cast
- Linda Cropper as Nellie Melba
- Hugo Weaving as Charles Armstrong
- Peter Carroll as David Mitchell
- Googie Withers as Lady Armstrong
- Joan Greenwood as Madame Marchesi
- Jean-Pierre Aumont as Comte de Paris
- Maria Aitken as Gladys de Grey
- Tom Burlinson as Sid Meredith
- Noel Ferrier as J.C. Williamson
- Nell Schofield as Belle Patterson
- Simon Burke as John McCormack
- Dorothy Alison as Elizabeth Mitchell
- Judi Farr as Amy Davidson
- Helmut Bakaitis as John Lemmone
- Christopher Benjamin as Colonel Otway
- Mel Martin as Mrs. Otway
- Lyndel Rowe as Blanche Marchesi
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