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Cream in My Coffee (1980)

1h 31m

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Cream in My Coffee (1980)

Name: Cream in My Coffee
Genre: Romance, Drama
Released: 1980-11-02

1h 31m

Running Time

Plot.

Past and present intertwine: An elderly couple returns to the hotel where they became close when they were young and flashbacks to the earlier visit reveal the origins of both their pleasures and problems. Somewhere between the past and the present, Dennis Potter attempted to find "the shape of a life, of two lives..."

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Cast & Crew.

Peggy Ashcroft

Jean Wilsher

Lionel Jeffries

Bernard Wilsher

Shelagh McLeod

Young Jean

Peter Chelsom

Young Bernard

Faith Brook

Mrs. Wilsher

Martin Shaw

Jack Butcher

Gavin Millar

Director

Will Stampe

Hotel Porter - 1934

Dennis Potter

Writer

Ernest Vincze

Director of Photography

Leo Dolan

Hotel Porter - 1980

Dawn Perllman

Waitress - 1934

Pik-Sen Lim

Waitress - 1980

Kenith Trodd

Producer

Derek Bain

Editor

Diana Parry

CastingDirector

Details.

Release Date
November 2, 1980

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 31m

Genres
Romance Drama

Last updated: 2025-02-10

Wiki.

Cream in My Coffee is a television drama by Dennis Potter, broadcast on ITV on 2 November 1980 as the last in a loosely connected trilogy of plays exploring language and betrayal. A juxtaposition between youth and old age, the play combines a non-linear narrative with the use of popular music to heighten dramatic tension, a feature of much of Potter's work. Cream in My Coffee was awarded the Prix Italia for best drama in 1981 and Peggy Ashcroft gained a BAFTA Best Actress award in 1981. The play's title is taken from the popular song "You're the Cream in My Coffee", from the 1929 Broadway musical Hold Everything!