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Howards End - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Miranda Richardson was offered the part of Margaret Schlegel.
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Dame Emma Thompson and Helena Bonham Carter appeared in the Harry Potter film franchise.
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One of two theatrical movies from Merchant Ivory Productions which featured Dame Emma Thompson and Sir Anthony Hopkins. The other being The Remains of the Day (1993).
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After playing Dame Emma Thompson's sister in this movie, Helena Bonham Carter played the love interest of Thompson's husband, Sir Kenneth Branagh, in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994). It is rumored that Carter was one of the main reasons for the subsequent Branagh and Thompson divorce. The next woman to play Thompson's sister on film (Kate Winslet in Sense and Sensibility (1995)) also followed that role by playing Branagh's love interest in Hamlet (1996).
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Ismail Merchant had to pay $250,000 for the rights to the novel to the trustees of Forster's estate, King's College, Cambridge, England. Merchant considered this an exorbitant sum, but he had to match a Hollywood offer that the college was also considering at the time.
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Jemma Redgrave (Evie Wicox) played the daughter of Vanessa Redgrave (Ruth Wilcox). In real life, she is her niece. This is the only time they have shared the screen, although Jemma appeared with her aunt Vanessa on stage in Chekhov's Three Sisters in 1990. The third sister was played by Vanessa's sister, and Jemma's aunt, Lynn Redgrave.
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Dame Emma Thompson received a total of thirteen nominations for her role in this movie. She won in all of those events, which includes an Oscar, a Golden Globe, and a BAFTA as Best Actress.
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Despite being given top billing amongst the cast, Vanessa Redgrave's character Ruth Wilcox dies of natural causes, and is no longer in this movie after the forty-two minute mark.
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This was director James Ivory's first experience with filming in the Super 35 format.
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Crispin Bonham-Carter (Albert Fussell) is the third cousin of Helena Bonham Carter (Helen Schlegel).
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The country house used as the location for Howards End is over twice as large as seen from the front and partial side views used in this movie. It is H-shaped with a large back portion, into which its owners moved during filming, while the front portion was emptied and refinished. (The landscaping was also redone, with flowers and plants truer to the story's period.) The house is owned by friends of production designer Luciana Arrighi, and it occurred to her it would make a good stand-in for Howards End, while she was a houseguest there.
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Samuel West (Leonard Bast) is the son of Prunella Scales (Aunt Juley).
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Dame Emma Thompson's Best Actress Oscar winning performance and Vanessa Redgrave's Best Actress in a Supporting Role nominated turn were the only female performances nominated in the acting categories in Best Picture nominees that year.
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Tilda Swinton, Phoebe Nicholls, and Joely Richardson were also considered for the part of Margaret Schlegel.
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One of the locations used was The Baltic Exchange, St. Mary Axe, London, England. Soon after filming, it was bombed by the I.R.A.
Howards End - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Howards End - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Howards End - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Howards End - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Howards End - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Howards End - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Howards End - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Howards End - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Howards End - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Howards End - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Howards End - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Howards End - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Howards End - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Howards End - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Howards End - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Howards End - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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