The Beggar Bride

The Beggar Bride

147 mins | Drama | Aug. 24, 1997

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...

The Beggar Bride

147 mins | Drama | Aug. 24, 1997

The Beggar Bride
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...
Producers BBC
Original title The Beggar Bride
Directors Diarmuid Lawrence
Writers Lizzie Mickery

Cast

Keeley Hawes

as Angela Harper

Nicholas Jones

as Sir Fabian Ormerod

Joe Duttine

as Billy Harper

Richard Lintern

as Callister

John Bowler

as Inspector Hayes

T.R. Bowen

as Jerry