The Getting of Wisdom

Overview

Based on the 1910 novel by Henry Handel Richardson, thought to be an account of her own schooldays at the Presbyterian Ladies College in Melbourne. A young girl, Laura Tweedle-Rambotham who grew up in the outback, and at around the age of 14, is sent off by her poor mother who has scrimped and saved for her to go to a prestigious women’s private college in Melbourne, the Presbyterian Ladies College.

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Cast

• Susannah Fowle

  Laura Tweedle Rambotham

• Hilary Ryan

  Evelyn

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  Terence Donovan

  Tom McNamara

• Patricia Kennedy

  Miss Chapman

• Sheila Helpmann

  Mrs. Gurley

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  Candy Raymond

  Miss Zielinski

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  Barry Humphries

  Rev. Strachey

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  John Waters

  Rev. Shepherd

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  Kerry Armstrong

  Kate

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  Sigrid Thornton

  Maria

• ★ 6.4

  Skin

  2009

• ★ 7.3

  The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

  1972

• ★ 6.2

  Gracie

  2007

• ★ 6.1

  Won't Back Down

  2012

• ★ 7.1

  Bastard Out of Carolina

  1996

• ★ 7.1

  What Maisie Knew

  2013

• ★ 6.0

  Lorelei

  2020

• ★ 6.7

  The Road Dance

  2022

• ★ 7.0

  The Young One

  1960

• ★ 6.6

  The Lords of Discipline

  1983

• ★ 6.4

  The Kindness of Strangers

  2019

• ★ 6.7

  The Color of Friendship

  2000

• ★ 6.4

  The Browning Version

  1994

• ★ 6.6

  El Chicano

  2019

• ★ 5.8

  The Girl in the Book

  2015

• ★ 5.9

  The Padre

  2018

• ★ 7.2

  The Visit

  1964

• ★ 6.7

  Girl in the Box

  2016