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Director: John McKay
Cast: Karen Gillan, Aneurin Barnard, Frances Barber, Helen McCrory
We’ll Take Manhattan explores the explosive love affair between sixties supermodel Jean Shrimpton and photographer David Bailey. Focusing on a wild and unpredictable 1962 Vogue photo shoot in New York, the drama brings to life the story of two young people falling in love, misbehaving and inadvertently defining the style of the Sixties along the way.
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Fans of period dramas and historical romances will enjoy the explosive chemistry and misbehavior between sixties supermodel Jean Shrimpton and photographer David Bailey, as portrayed by Karen Gillan and Aneurin Barnard in this 2012 drama directed by John McKay.
We'll Take Manhattan is a British television film that tells the story of the extramarital affair between photographer David Bailey and model Jean Shrimpton, and their one-week photographic assignment in New York City for Vogue in 1962. Directed by John McKay, it stars Aneurin Barnard as Bailey and Karen Gillan as Shrimpton. The film was first broadcast on 26 January 2012 on BBC Four in the UK, and in the US on Ovation on 11 February 2012.
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