Lipstick on Your Collar (TV series)

Lipstick on Your Collar ( original title Lipstick on Your Collar ) is a British mini-series from 1993 for the Dennis Potter wrote the screenplay. It was first broadcast by Channel 4. In the series, Ewan McGregor played his first leading role.

Action

The main action takes place against the backdrop of the Suez crisis in 1956 in the British War Office. The bored of his service Mick Hopper - played by Ewan McGregor - the time sells it, to imagine his comrades and superiors, singing and dancing in fun daydreaming.

Sylvia Berry, played by Louise Germaine, the attractive blonde wife of a violent comrades, is for Mick and Francis Francis, another comrade, the object of desire.

Music

In the series include the following pieces of music can be heard:

  • Lipstick On Your Collar - Connie Francis ( Title Song)
  • The Man with the Golden Arm - Billy May Orchestra The
  • The Great Pretender, Only You (And You Alone ) and My Prayer - The Platters
  • Earth Angel, and Sh- Boom (Life Could Be a Dream ) - The Crewcuts
  • Little Bitty Pretty One - Thurston Harris
  • Garden of Eden and Green Door - Frankie Vaughan
  • Blueberry Hill and I'm in Love Again - Fats Domino
  • Do not Be Cruel - Elvis Presley
  • The Story of My Life - Michael Holliday
  • It's Almost Tomorrow - The Dream Weavers
  • Your Cheatin 'Heart - Hank Williams
  • In a Persian Market Place - Nigel Ogden
  • Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins
  • Raining in My Heart - Buddy Holly
  • Be-Bop -A- Lula - Gene Vincent
  • By a Sleepy Lagoon - William Thorp and Mike Houghton
  • Jealousy - William Thorp, Mike Houghton and Jack Emblow
  • Unchained Melody - Les Baxter
  • Try a Little Tenderness and So Tired
  • I'm Beginning to See the Light - composed by Duke Ellington and Harry James
  • Young Love - Sonny James
  • The Fool - Sanford Clark
  • Band of Gold - Don Cherry
  • Sanctuary of the Heart - Nigel Ogden
  • Robin Hood (TV Theme) - Garry Miller
  • Heartbreak Hotel
  • It'll Be Me - Jerry Lee Lewis
  • Love Is Strange - Mickey & Sylvia
  • Lotta Lovin ' - Gene Vincent
  • Lay Down Your Arms - Anne Shelton

Others

The series was in 1994 in the categories "Best Mask" and nominated " Best Music " for the BAFTA Award.

The ( original ) series title is an anachronism: Although the plot in 1956 is located, the title song by Connie Francis was not published until 1959.

In Germany the mid-1990s was broadcast both the original version with German subtitles as well as a synchronized version.

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