Before Christmas, I blogged about the upcoming BBC adaptation of Noel Streatfeild’s classic novel Ballet Shoes. Aired in the U.K. on December 26, it starred
Emma Watson in her first non–Harry Potter role, as adopted orphan and budding film star Pauline Fossil. Pauline has two equally — although differently — talented adopted sisters, Petrova and Posy.
One of the reasons I was interested in the adaptation was to see how it would treat the characters of Dr. Smith and Dr. Jakes, female academics (played by Sense and Sensibility costars Harriet Walter and Gemma Jones) who had always seemed rather like life partners to me in the book.
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