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If you're in the mood for a sweet tale filled with gorgeous dresses and set in the most romantic city in the world, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris should be going straight on your to-watch list. Find out more, including where you can watch it right now.

The heartbreak of falling madly in love with an outfit, only to have to leave it behind due to an out-of-reach price tag, is unmatched. Many will go to great lengths to be able to be with the outfit they love, stopping at nothing to ensure it does not go home with someone else. This sweet love story, filled with ups and downs, is displayed in the humorous and dramatic film, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris.

If you want to see the journey of a passionate woman who is determined to end up with the dress of her dreams, you can watch Mrs. Harris...

Move over, Rick Dalton and Cliff Booth.

Angela Lansbury, the beloved Tony-winning star of “Murder, She Wrote,” and “Beauty and the Beast,” who passed away on Tuesday, was wise enough to whisk daughter Deidre Shaw away from cult leader Charles Manson before the infamous 1969 murders committed by his followers.

In 2014, Lansbury told the Daily Mail, “It pains me to say it but, at one stage, Deidre was in with a crowd led by Charles Manson.” She recalled that Deidre and her son Anthony found Manson “charismatic” and were “fascinated” by him.

Once she realized hard drugs were involved, she made the decision to move the whole family from Los Angeles to Ireland where they wouldn’t be exposed to all the “bad influences” of Hollywood. “I said to Peter, ‘We have to leave,'” she said of her late husband Peter Shaw, who died in 2003.

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As the title character of “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris,” Lesley Manville charms nearly everyone she encounters: homeless men on the streets of Paris, the heads of the Dior fashion house (including Christian Dior himself), models, dressmakers and racehorse track operators. Even the more snobbish people she encounters eventually find themselves taken in by Ada, a kindhearted but tough English cleaning lady who — following the devastating news that her missing-in-action husband has been declared dead by the British army — makes it her life’s mission to acquire a Dior dress and live out her dreams of glamour.

For people who know Manville best from her Oscar-nominated work on 2017’s “Phantom Thread,” where she played cynical and tough-minded fashion house manager Cyril, seeing Manville as the outsider in the world of high fashion may initially feel like a bit of an in-joke. But Manville makes it easy to forget all her past roles with the film,...

A housekeeper waltzing into Christian Dior and choosing a couture gown may sound like the height of fantasy, but the biggest stretch in Anthony Fabian’s “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris” may be all the nice French people she meets along the way. Starring the inimitable Lesley Manville, in a role that effectively transitions the frequent Mike Leigh collaborator into the Helen Mirren phase of her career, “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris” is a charming confection of a middle-aged, middle-class fantasy.

Imbuing the lavish period delights of “Mrs. Maisel” with a lively post-menopausal heroine “Hacks” made trendy, “Mrs. Harris”

The movie begins in 1957 London, where Mrs. Ada Harris (Manville) has finally received word, after years of holding out hope, that her dear Eddie was killed in action some dozen years prior. As she goes about her usual routine, cleaning the flats of the entitled rich who regard her as nothing more than reliably good-natured help,...

by Cláudio Alves

Originally published in 1958, Paul Gallico's Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris, also known as Flowers for Mrs. Harris, is the first book in a series about the adventures of an English cleaning woman in her sixties. This particular novella concerns the widowed charwoman who, after falling in love with her employer's French fashions, becomes fixated on the idea of buying a Dior dress for herself. As the title suggests, she goes to Paris to achieve that goal, embarking on what can only be described as a midcentury fairytale. Way before Lesley Manville decided to step into Mrs. Harris' shoes for the 2022 production, the story was already adapted for the screen. Beyond filmed media, there's even a musical that premiered in Sheffield's Crucible Theater in 2016.

As we wait for the new movie to arrive in theaters, let's look back at one of those previous incarnations. Specifically, the 1992 TV...

Dior on the Floor: Fabian Spins Sweetness into Schmaltz with Anglophile Fairy Tale

It’s never too late to follow one’s dreams, as the truncated tagline beckons for Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, a sing-song narrative of humanist whimsy directed by Anthony Fabian. And for those who dare to pursue their desires, they’re bound to inspire the cynical, jaded brutes in their wake, a sentiment belabored in this facelift on Paul Gallico’s classic 1958 novel Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris, which was adapted for television by Murder She Wrote creator Anthony Shaw starring Angela Lansbury, Diana Rigg, and Omar Sharif in 1992.…...

Focus Features has acquired the worldwide rights to “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris,” a period drama starring Lesley Manville and Isabelle Huppert that emerged at this year’s European Film Market.

Anthony Fabian is directing the film that is based on a novella by Paul Gallico. Jason Isaacs, Lambert Wilson, Alba Baptista, Lucas Bravo and Rose Williams also star in the film, which Focus Features will release domestically while Universal Pictures International handles overseas distribution.

“Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris” was made in partnership with the fashion group the House of Dior, and it tells the story of a widowed cleaning lady in 1950s London who falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress and decides that she must have one of her own. After she works, starves and gambles to raise the funds to pursue her dream, she embarks on an adventure to Paris which will change not only her own outlook,...

Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

Anthony Fabian is set to reveal his highest profile project since 2008’s Skin with a revamp of a beloved Paul Gallico novella Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, a UK production which lensed primarily in Budapest. Headlined by Lesley Manville and starring Isabelle Huppert, Jason Isaacs, Lambert Wilson, Alba Baptista, and Lucas Bravo. Gallico is perhaps most well-known as the author of The Poseidon Adventure, but his Mrs. Harris was a character features throughout a series of his work, and this particular novel was last mounted as a 1992 television production starring Angela Lansbury and Diana Rigg.…...

If you found yourself captivated by Lucas Bravo's chef Gabriel on Emily in Paris, you're not alone. There's a reason Emily found herself drawn to him, seeing as Lucas is not only extremely charming but handsome as well. If you're wondering where he's been prior to his role as Gabriel, Lucas primarily appeared in French-language television and films. Luckily, the 32-year-old actor is adding a few more global roles to his résumé, including the upcoming film adaptation of Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris. You probably don't need any more reasons as to why you should join the Lucas Bravo bandwagon, but if you're still on the fence, check out the facts ahead.