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The Duchess
Starring: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Charlotte Rampling, Dominic Cooper, Hayley Atwell
Directed by: Saul Dibb
Screenplay by: Jeffrey Hatcher
Release: September 19, 2008
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for for sexual content, brief nudity and thematic material.
Studio: Paramount Vantage
Domestic: $13,848,978 (34.1%)
Foreign: $26,809,499 (65.9%)
Total: $40,658,477 (Worldwide)
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![]() Tagline: There were three people in her marriage.
The scandalous rise and fall of the Georgina, Duchess of Devonshire. Like Princess Diana, her direct descendent, she was beautiful, glamorous and adored by the public.
Keira Knightley plays the 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, duchess of Devonshire. An ancestor of Princess Di, she lived an extravagant, profligate and promiscuous life of political and romantic intrigue, becoming an important powerbroker amid Britain's ruling elite but also running up catastrophic gambling debts. She was alternately feted and reviled, and widely caricatured by the popular press.
Long before the concept existed, the Duchess of Devonshire, Georgiana Spencer (Keira Knightley), was the original "It Girl." Like her direct ancestor Princess Diana, she was ravishing, glamorous and adored by an entire country. Determined to be a player in the wider affairs of the world, she proved that she could out-gamble, out-drink and outwit most of the aristocratic men who surrounded her.
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