Joy Davidman - Shadowlands

Shadowlands, a dramatized version of Davidman's life with C. S. Lewis by William Nicholson, has been filmed twice. In 1985, a television version was made by the BBC One, starring Joss Ackland as Lewis and Claire Bloom as Davidman. The BBC production won BAFTA awards for best play and best actress in 1986. Nicholson's work, in part drawing on Douglas Gresham's book, Lenten Lands: My Childhood with Joy Davidman and CS Lewis, was also performed in London as an award-winning stage play in 1989–90. The play, transferred successfully to Broadway in 1990–91 with Nigel Hawthorne and Jane Anderson starring and was also revived in London in 2007. A cinema film version was released in 1993, with Anthony Hopkins as Jack (C. S. Lewis) and Debra Winger as Joy Davidman.

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