My Brilliant Career
- Director: Gillian Armstrong
- Writer: Miles Franklin; Eleanor Witcombe
- Producer: Margaret Fink; Jane Scott
CGiii Comment
Sybylla Melvyn is an independent young woman who soon after arriving to live with her Grandmother Bossier and aunt Helen announces that she will never marry and plans on having a career instead. She does attracts the interest of several suitors. The bumbling Englishman Frank Hawdon has only been in Australia for three months and proposes that she return home with him as his wife. She rejects him out of hand telling her grandmother that she does not love him. Then there's her neighbor, the handsome young farmer Harry Beecham, who she is attracted to and eventually accepts his proposal. Time passes however and in the end refuses to marry him while she seeks to become a writer.
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Cast & Characters
Judy Davis as Sybylla Melvyn;
Sam Neill as Harry Beecham;
Wendy Hughes as Aunt Helen;
Robert Grubb as Frank Hawdon;
Max Cullen as Mr. McSwatt;
Aileen Britton as Grandma Bossier;
Peter Whitford as Uncle Julius;
Patricia Kennedy as Aunt Gussie;
Alan Hopgood as Father;
Julia Blake as Mother;
David Franklin as Horace;
Marion Shad as Gertie;
Arron Wood as Stanley;
Sue Davies as Aurora;
Gordon Piper as Barman