Jeremy Brett - "We Have Much To Learn From The Flowers."

'An Embellishment of Life'

Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.” – From The Adventure of the Naval Treaty.

This is a special album in which I can (as I come across them) 'press' some of the early flowerings in the career of Jeremy Brett. Looking at them now, we can I think say the early hope shown in these young flowers was rewarded in abundance by one of the greatest actors of his generation.

Here is my aide memoire  to Brett's career before Sherlock Holmes and to the location of films and clips for internet viewing. (My gratitude and acknowledgement to all owners and uploaders of films with links listed here. I own none of what follows).

* Useful link to IMDb Jeremy Brett Filmography:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0107950/

1964My Fair Lady(performer: "On the Street Where You Live" 1956 - uncredited, "On the Street Where You Live Reprise" 1956 - uncredited, "Show Me" 1956 - uncredited)

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1995The Making of 'My Fair Lady' (video documentary)
Himself - Host (also archive footage) / Freddy Eynsford-Hill(also archive footage)

1991Backstage at Masterpiece Theatre (TV special)
Himself

1989Cap d'any a TV3 (TV movie)
Himself

1977Night of 100 Stars (TV special)
Himself

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2010The People's Detective (TV series documentary)

2007The Shackles of Sherlock (TV documentary)
Sherlock Holmes (uncredited)

2007Time Shift (TV series documentary)

1997Heroes of Comedy (TV series documentary)

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Internet views (random, cumulative order).

The Wild and the Willing (1962).

http://wn.com/The_Wild_and_the_Willing

The Three Musketeers (1966-7).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jadifpdEjc&feature=relmfu

Rebecca (1979).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMLYwPUw6iE&feature=related

Number 10 (1983).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBgfNSN9wI0&feature=related

An Ideal Husband (1969).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpwWQv5I-CM&feature=relmfu

The Barratts of Wimpole Street (1982).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM7GIPATuE0&feature=related

Young Dan'l Boone (1977).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQZlcmJO-Dc&feature=related

The Prodigal Daughter (1975).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRpDC0Imyk0&feature=related

Twiggy (1975).

(see also:JB Archive -

http://jeremybrett.info/tv_twiggy.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrMBdQm9P10&feature=related

Premiere of  'My Fair Lady'.

My Fair Lady (1964).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HDEAFRMjdU&feature=related

The Ferryman (1974).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8Lutvobj6g

Mr Nightingale (Supernatural) (1977).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXp_OWmHTu0&feature=relmfu

Affairs of the Heart (1974).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHmcfZr2DpU&feature=relmfu

The Baron (1966).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uhNQYj0A6M&feature=relmfu

The Merchant of Venice (1974).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1e8Sl-fu9Q&feature=relmfu

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1976).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaqAEiQj0VQ&feature=related

 

Madame X 1981.

The Three Musketeers 1966.

 

 

                               
The Medusa Touch 1978
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cLHKUOV-gk&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Patrick Gowers music for Granada's Sherlock Holmes

 

"One Deadly Owner" - Thriller (1974).

 

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