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For a long time Lesley Manville has shown why shes not only one of our best actresses working today, but also one of our most diverse. Case in point: just in the last few years she has played a mad scientist, a pixie-fairy, a bristly manager of an esteemed fashion house, a woman struggling with breast cancer, and a venomous backwoods matriarch. Now you can add a sweet and sprightly cleaning lady determined to get her very own Christian Dior evening gown.

Paul Gallico's 1958 novel "Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris," about a British cleaning lady with high couture dreams, wouldn't seem to have even a stitch of contemporary relevance. Yet Anthony Fabian's charming adaptation, snuggly tailored to star Lesley Manville, proves the durability of a good fairy tale

For Oscar nominated actress Lesley Manville, a career peak is perfectly timed to when her life overall is much more interesting.

There's a fine line between sweet and cloying, and the British dramedy Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris crosses it a little too often. It's hard...

A widowed cleaning lady in 1950s London sets her heart on a designer dress in this charm-filled adaptation of Paul Gallicos 1958 novel.

The diverting film “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris” offers an undercurrent of resilience and goodness.

Lesley Manville sparkles in a feel good mix of fashion, travel and self-empowerment.

A widowed cleaning lady in 1950s London sets her heart on a designer dress in this charm-filled adaptation of Paul Gallico's 1958 novel.

A hard-working London housecleaner, Mrs. Harris has one burning ambition, and it’s a doozy: She wants, above all else, to own a gown by Christian Dior.

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