The Beggar Bride

The Beggar Bride

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 24, 1997

Runtime

2h 27m

Genres

Drama

User Score

75%

Original Title

The Beggar Bride

Production Companies

BBC

Director

Diarmuid Lawrence

Description

How far will she go for money? "Don't you see, Billy, people like them owe people like us." Young, beautiful and living on the breadline with a feckless husband and a sickly child, Angela Harper decides to take matters into her own hands in order to save her family from the poverty trap. She hits on the perfect plan after noticing a newspaper feature on the once divorced and once widowed lord, Sir Fabian Ormoerod. She will marry the man and then hit him for a massive divorce settlement. And so the stunning Ms Angela Harper, successful lingerie buyer with an alluring independent streak is born...