Gregory's Girl. Gregory's Girl is a 1981 Scottish coming-of-age romantic comedy film written and directed by Bill Forsyth and starring John Gordon Sinclair, Dee Hepburn and Clare Grogan.
The film is set in and around a state secondary school in the Abronhill district of Cumbernauld. Gregory's Girl (1981. Gregory's Girl Trailer. Gregory's Girl (1981. Gregory's Girl (1980) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast. Gregory's Girl. All Critics (14) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (13) | Rotten (1) | DVD (4) Much of the pic's peculiar fascination comes from tangential scenes, limning each character's odd obsession, be it food, girls, soccer, or just watching the traffic drive by.
Quirky and utterly endearing. Maybe only grown-ups should see this movie. You know, people who have gotten over the pains of unrequited love (hollow laugh). It floats effortlessly over its landscape, seeing all from a marvelously cockeyed perspective all its own. It's hard to warm to a film as intentionally slight and safe as this. A charming but slight teen movie about sports, a first romance and growing up. A funny and touching teen romance from Scottish director Bill Forsyth. As charming a provincial romance as ever there was. August 12, 2005 The film has fresh, no-nonsense performances and a script so rooted in truth that it seems to have materialized not been written. John Gordon Sinclair. Life and career[edit] He appeared in the 1982 Scottish squad's World Cup song "We Have a Dream", a number 5 hit in the UK, which was written and performed by BA Robertson.
It featured John Gordon Sinclair speaking his recollection of a dream about Scottish football success. He later revived this Scottish footballing connection by narrating the 2006-07 BBC Scotland documentary series That Was The Team That Was. John Gordon Sinclair. John Gordon Sinclair. John Gordon Sinclair was born in Glasgow, Scotland.
He moved to London in the early Eighties and now lives in Surrey with his wife, Shauna, and their two children. The dark side of John Gordon Sinclair. It was that nasty.
When I picked the book up and started reading again, the sequence somehow managed to get worse, so much so that I had to check that the book had John Gordon Sinclair's name on the cover. Did he really write this? John Gordon Sinclair? Tall, lanky, bumbling John Gordon Sinclair? John-Gordon Sinclair. Dee Hepburn. Dee Hepburn (born 7 November 1961), is a former Scottish actress.
Born on a council housing estate in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, she is the second of five daughters born to dental technician Bobbie Hepburn and his wife Madeline.[1] Married to her second husband, she still lives in East Kilbride, working in business development for a local company.[1][2] References[edit] External links[edit] Why Gregory's Girl Dee Hepburn turned her back on fame - because she didn't want to strip off. Gregory’s Girl told story of a schoolboy’s unrequited love for a classmateDee Hepburn, now 51, was talent spotted in Glasgow department storeWon central role as Dorothy despite being an unknown actor By Frances Hardy Published: 04:28 GMT, 9 February 2013 | Updated: 04:38 GMT, 9 February 2013 Dee Hepburn played Dorothy in the 1981 film Gregory's Girl Thirty-two years ago, an unassuming, low-budget British film received the kind of rapturous worldwide reception usually accorded to Hollywood blockbusters.
What happened to dee hepburn? Dee Hepburn. Dee Hepburn draws Kirkmuirhill Inn raffle - Local Headlines - Carluke Gazette. GREGORY'S Girl actress Dee Hepburn got a kick out of drawing the raffle prizes at the Kirkmuirhill Inn's annual charity fundraiser.
Dee (48), who played female football star Dorothy in the classic 1981 Scottish movie, still has fond memories of her time acting in the coming-of-age romantic comedy, written and directed by Bill Forsyth. Gregory's Girl goes for Olympic gold. Clare Grogan. Claire Patricia Grogan (born 17 March 1962) is a Scottish actress and singer, sometimes credited as C.P.
Grogan. She is best known as the lead singer of the 1980s new wave music group Altered Images and for supporting roles in the 1981 film Gregory's Girl and the science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf. Early life[edit] Aged 17 while within the Pollok Inn, a public house in Glasgow, she was a bystander when a fight broke out between several patrons. Altered Images. Altered Images - I Could Be Happy 1981.
Altered Images - Happy Birthday. Altered Images - Don't Talk To Me About Love. Clare Grogan. In bed with… Clare Grogan. Clare Grogan was inspired to write her children's books by her own pop career as a teenager Clare Grogan is best known as the lead singer of Altered Images and for her role as Susan in cult 80s film Gregory’s Girl.
She has since had roles in EastEnders, Red Dwarf and Father Ted. Married to her Altered Images bandmate Stephen Lironi, they have an adopted daughter Lucia, 3. Clare recently published her first book, Tallulah And The TeenStars How is your bedroom decorated? Altered Images singer Clare Grogan set to take crowds back to 1980s as host of Rewind festival. AS the face of Altered Images she was an 80s pop icon who enjoyed coming of age hits such as Happy Birthday, I Could Be Happy and See Those Eyes. But like so many young stars of that era, Clare Grogan failed to reap the rewards of her success and grew to hate the songs that had made her famous. As she prepares to host this summer's Rewind music festival, which features 25 of the hottest 80s artists including Spandau Ballet's Tony Hadley, Rick Astley, the Human League and T'Pau, she has revealed her struggle to come to terms with her pop past. Clare, now 49, said: "People saw me on Top Of The Pops and thought I was mega-rich and living La Vida Loca, and to a certain extent I had a really unusual life and I did get to do incredible things, but I didn't make any money out of it.
"That's probably the biggest misconception. I don't think I'm alone, in that era of the 80s, of the young people involved in music who walked away with very little. "I have refused to analyse it too much. Gregory's Girl star tells how adoption ended her 10-year baby hell. AFTER 10 years of trying, six miscarriages and four failed IVF attempts, Clare Grogan feared she might never be a mother. But then a chance encounter with a pal who had adopted a son began the process that brought little Elle Lucia into her life. Now Clare, 48, has opened her heart about the joy of adopting her daughter, as she backs a drive to encourage more couples to give a child a loving home through adoption or fostering.
The Gregory's Girl star said: "We found the daughter we were always meant to have. Gregory's Girl. Gregory and his girls reunited in Glasgow. It was the kind of fanatical reception that they all assumed would be forever reserved for "real" movie stars. But last Sunday, 30 years after the quiet man they used to call "Bill the van driver" directed them together in a tiny low-budget Scottish film about a schoolboy's unrequited first love, the cast of Gregory's Girl walked up the red carpet to a sea of jostling TV cameras, flashing paparazzi bulbs and thrusting autograph hunters at the anniversary screening of what has become one of the most loved British films of all time. The enduring allure of the film that catapulted Bill Forsyth into the British film industry elite has surprised no one so much as its stars, most of whom were in their teens when they made it. Many of the cast had worked with Forsyth through the Glasgow Youth Theatre before, and expected no more than the distinct lack of interest that met their first film together, That Sinking Feeling.