'DOWNTON ABBEY' SEASON 5, EPISODE 4 FASHION RECAP: LADY MARY WINS EVERYTHING

FASHIONISTA
CHERYL WISCHHOVER 12 HOURS AGO

Spoilers.

This episode of "Downton Abbey" marks the halfway point of the season, and it really should just be called "There's Something About Mary" now, because she is winning everything in the show.  Including all the fake fashion awards in my head.

HOW TO WEAR A RED HAT



In this episode, Lady Mary totally schools us in red hat-wearing. The key? Keep it in the jewel-tone family. If this was the InStyle feature which teaches you how to style weird colors like mustard (which is one of my favorite columns in that mag), I'd call the plum coat and red hat a "wild card pairing."

LADY EDITH BLENDS IN

I was really struck by how often Edith's wardrobe makes her blend into the background. First, she was totally camouflaged by the red velvet couch in the library, then she matched the fence while trying to spy on her daughter. Come on, writers, Lady Edith really needs her triumphant moment.

THE "DRESS SHOW"

"Aunt Rosamund's taking me to a dress show." --Lady Mary

"It's good to know you've got your priorities straight." --Lord Grantham

Honestly, could a "Downton Abbey" fashion recapper ask for anything more glorious than AN ACTUAL FASHION SHOW on the show? No. I can now die happy. That androgynous number on the far left (Mary's reaction: "Golly!") looks like something Miuccia would create.

THE BOHO MISS LANE FOX

In case you'd forgotten (I did, and had to consult the Downtonpedia), Miss Lane Fox was formerly engaged to Tony Gillingham, who then broke off the engagement to pursue Mary. Ouch. Anyway, her style looks rather boho. She's the Drew Barrymore of Downton.

BITCH, PLEASE




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‘Downton Abbey’ NEWS: U.S. Premiere Of Season 5 Brings 10.1 Million Viewers To PBS, Laura Carmichael DISHES On Portraying Lady Edith [SPOILERS]

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As Americans eagerly try to catch up with the fifth season of "Downton Abbey," new speculation for Season Six centers around whether or not Allen Leech will return next year. Plus, Laura Carmichael discusses what it is like to play Lady Edith Crawley as well.

According to Carter Matt, there's a lot of speculation over whether or not actor Allen Leech will return for "Downton Abbey's" Season Six.

While many fans will miss Tom Branson if is truly gone for good, others have also pointed out that if he changes his mind and decides to stay put, then his arc would have been one big waste of time for the fans.

Aside from whether or not Leech will return, fans have also wondered if Matthew Goode's character Henry Talbot will return in Season Six in order to woo Lady Mary.

Given the fact that she is finally moving on from both Tony Gillingham and Charles Blake, it would be nice if Goode joined the cast in order to add a new twist in Lady Mary's tangled love life, adds Radio Times.

Meanwhile, even though U.K. fans of "Downton Abbey" were disappointed with the past season, American fans gathered in force for the U.S. premiere.

TV By The Numbers writes that 10.1 million American fans sat down to watch the Season Five premiere on Sunday, which made PBS the second most-watched channel that night.



Even better, many of the viewers also stuck around for the one-hour documentary "The Manners Of Downton," which aired right after the premiere and explored the fascinating world of English etiquette.

Hosted by "Downton Abbey's" historical advisor Alastair Bruce, fans were able to get a glimpse of the rigorous training that the cast had to go through in order to accurately portray the British nobility on the show.

Finally, the Wall Street Journal sat down with Laura Carmichael, who discussed what it is like to play Lady Edith Crawley.

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Downton Abbey's Lady Edith Will Face Even More Devastation Next Season

VANITY FAIR
Julie Miller
July 29, 2014



Last week we learned that Downton Abbey will finally give Maggie Smith’s Dowager Countess the air time she deserves with an especially juicy plot. (Our Downton mole tells us that the story arc involves a character suddenly resurfacing from her past.) And now, we learn that the makers of Downton, somehow believing that Laura Carmichael’s Lady Edith has not been through enough personal tragedy, will heap even more pain and heartbreak her way during the show’s upcoming fifth season.

We, somewhat naively, thought that after Edith was left at the altar by her handicapped love interest, knocked up by a married man, and consequently abandoned to deliver her bastard child alone, the Downton Abbey writers would—I don’t know—cut the middle Crawley sister a break. But no, in a new panel interview, the cast revealed that Edith will be abused even more than usual.

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DOWNTON ABBEY: Risk of new romance

THE WEST AUSTRALIAN
SUE YEAP The West Australian
March 18, 2014, 10:38



If there's one thing most fans agree on about British period drama Downton Abbey it's that middle sister Edith Crawley, played by Laura Carmichael, is hard done by.

Unlucky in love, left at the altar, despised by imperious older sister Mary and often overlooked by her parents, Edith has, over the past season and a half, quietly broken with Crawley tradition and carved out a niche as a newspaper columnist, having previously, shock horror, learnt to drive.

"It has been a really lovely transition for her the last few seasons," Carmichael said down the line from London during a recent break in filming season five.

It was Edith's newspaper writing that led her to strike up a friendship, then relationship, with her editor and publisher, Michael Gregson, played by Charles Edwards.

In last Sunday's episode, the fourth of season four, Edith snuck back into her Aunt Rosamund's (Samantha Bond) house after spending the night with Gregson, whose wife has been in an asylum for many years.

So desperate is Gregson to be with Edith, he has been making plans for them to move to Germany to be together.

"Things start off so well but it doesn't quite all go smooth sailing," Carmichael revealed.

"I liked having time at the beginning of the series to show her slightly more rebellious side and really living and grabbing life with both hands.

"She takes some risks with Gregson; she's out with this married man and that causes a lot of drama to come, therefore she doesn't quite get away with it all.

"I think it is great, she has really sort of matured and is doing the things she wants to rather than the things she has to, which is really fun to play."

Carmichael said Edith was a bit of a black sheep and it was interesting to see how Hugh Bonneville and Elizabeth McGovern, who play her parents Robert and Cora, behaved differently towards her.

"It's heartbreaking, isn't it," she exclaimed. "I love playing this sort of underdog character."

Away from screen, however, Carmichael has formed solid bonds with her on-screen family, particularly Michelle Dockery, who plays Mary, and Jessica Brown Finlay, who played Sybil until the character's tragic death last season.

"We have all been through this mad journey together doing this full-on TV show for ITV that has gone kind of global," she said.

"Michelle and I are similar ages, have similar interests and have become really close."

Although Downton is one of the most-watched dramas in the world, Carmichael still manages to get about mostly unrecognised because she wears a wig to play Edith.

"I was recently out and about with Jim Carter (who plays the butler, Carson) and I couldn't get over how much he gets recognised, which is completely different to my experience," she said.

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‘Downton Abbey’ Season 5 SPOILERS: Twins Cast To Play ****** Baby Daughter; Filming Begins With New Cast Members

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There are, or will soon be, two new little members of the “Downton Abbey” cast: a Twitter user revealed that “Downton Abbey” began filming this week and that the show held auditions for twin baby girls to play Edith’s daughter.

A Twitter source told Wetpaint, “filming starts this week until August. Edith returns with her baby. I know this because my twins had an audition!”

Another new actor on the show, Richard E. Grant, revealed that Season 5 had begun filming on Twitter.

“First day on DOWNTON ABBEY duty. Was downstairs in GOSFORD PARK. Been promoted upstairs. Progress? Will wait and see,” Grant tweeted on February 15.

He also tweeted a picture of part of his costume: a pair of black leather gloves. “Must be true ‘cos they’ve got my name on it,” he wrote.

As we previously reported, Grant – who has appeared on “Girls” and “Doctor Who” – will play a character named Simon Bricker, who visits Downton as a guest of the Granthams. He was one of three new cast members revealed earlier this week.

Anna Chancellor (“Hysteria,” “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”) will play Lady Anstruther, in a guest role.

Rade Sherbedgia (“The Legend of Hercules,” “In The Land of Blood and Honey”) will play Kuragin, a Russian refugee who has fled the Russian revolution after WWII.


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Downton Abbey's Laura Carmichael joins the cast of Madame Bovary

RADIO TIMES
Emily Dixon
4:07 PM, 01 October 2013

Downton Abbey’s Laura Carmichael – better known to viewers as Lady Edith – has joined the cast of Sophie Barthes’ upcoming adaptation of Flaubert's classic novel Madame Bovary, according to Variety. Carmichael is the second Downton star to be cast, alongside Paul Giamatti, who will debut as Lady Edith’s playboy uncle in the current season.

 Carmichael is cast as Henrietta, a character not named in the book but possibly based on that of Heloise, the first wife of Madame Bovary's husband Charles. Mia Wasikowska, star of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, will play the titular Emma Bovary, a country girl whose idealistic notions of romance, and her disillusionment with her husband, lead her to ill-fated infidelity and financial trouble.

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'Downton Abbey' Series 4: Laura Carmichael Says Lady Edith Will Get Feisty (HUFF POST)

Downton Abbey star Laura Carmichael has revealed Lady Edith Crawley is set to get feisty in the new series.

The actress has just begun filming the fourth series of the hit period drama and revealed while her character had a reputation for being a bit dowdy and desperate to marry in previous series, she has now become quite a modern, independent woman.

Laura said: "She's coming into her own a little bit I think. It's all be ups and downs. But I think after being jilted I think she's thrown it all out the window, any ideas she did have in the first place and I think that's been good for her. It's given her a bit of independence and hotspur. I love playing her."

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Michelle Dockery devastated by Lady Sybil death Source: Bang Showbiz

Michelle Dockery was "devastated" while filming Lady Sybil's death in 'Downton Abbey'.

The 30-year-old actress ・who portrays Lady Mary in the ITV1 period drama ・ and Laura Carmichael, who plays Lady Edith, were disappointed when Jessica Brown Findlay's alter-ego was killed off, and the brunette beauty really misses her "distinctive" laugh. She said: "We knew a couple of weeks prior to filming the episode what was going happen to it felt like this huge build up. One of the last scenes we shot with Jessica was where the sisters say goodbye to her, and me and Laura Carmichael [Lady Edith] were just devastated playing it.

"We've spent three years of our lives together so Jessica going was as wrench. I miss her laugh, it's really distinctive."

While Michelle was distraught filming Sybil's death, she puts her full trust in 'Downton Abbey' co-creator Julian Fellowes and is "excited" to see what is going to happen to each character in the show.

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Downton Abbey Second Episode Spoilers (METRO)

By Caroline Westbrook - 23rd September, 2012

The second episode of the new series of Downton Abbey offers the strongest hints yet that Lady Edith may finally be about to walk up the aisle.


The latest series already got its fair share of wedding fever when it kicked off last week with an episode which saw Lady Mary and Matthew Crawley get married.

However the second episode sees Lady Edith - played by Laura Carmichael - once again declare her intentions to Sir Anthony Strallan (Robert Bathurst), who is 25 years her senior - as they vow to begin a new life together as a married couple.

And although no plot details have been revealed, a trailer for the next episode reportedly shows shots of Lady Edith in a wedding dress and outside a church with her sisters - suggesting that nuptials are indeed on the cards, in spite of her family's disapproval.


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Michelle Dockery nearly spills out of her corset in sexy Love magazine shoot By DAILY MAIL REPORTER PUBLISHED: 18:48 EST, 26 July 2012 | UPDATED: 01:37 EST, 27 July 2012 (MAIL ON LINE)

A whole new costume drama: Michelle Dockery poses in a corset and flowers in her hair for the new issue of LOVE magazine

As Lady Mary Crawley in Downton Abbey, Michelle Dockery is used to wearing a corset.

But its unlikely we'll see the eldest Crawley daughter wearing this get-up in the hallowed halls of Downton Abbey any time soon.

The actress, 30, looked like she was about to spill out of her corset in a Gothic-themed shoot for the new issue of LOVE magazine.

Not so plain now: Laura Carmichael, who plays Lady Edith, wears a striking gown as she reclines on a sofa

In the accompanying interview, she said had become very fond of Lady Mary over the past two series and the upcoming third.

She told the mag: 'Like all characters that you play you feel very protective of them. I’m very fond of Lady Mary. I care about her very much. Of course I want her to find happiness.

‘The tension between Edith and Mary I don’t really get because my sisters were not vicious to each other like they’ve been. But it was always really fun to play.'

Ethereal : Jessica Brown Findlay looks a fairy bride in the Gothic shoot

Michelle joined her on-screen sisters Jessica Brown Findlay and Laura Carmichael – who play Sybil, and Edith in the ITV drama – underwent the gothic-inspired transformation for a photo shoot with fashion bible LOVE.

Styled by the magazine’s editor-in-chief Katie Grand, it sees Lady Sybil don a plunging corset, with flowers in her messy hair.

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Downton to designer: Michelle Dockery is a vision in black and gold as she leads the best of British at the New York Met Ball By GEORGINA LITTLEJOHN (DAILY MAIL)

It was one of the surprise smash-hit imports that took America by storm and brought the Crawley family into their hearts.

So it was only fitting that one of the Downton Abbey ladies should be present at one of the US's biggest nights on the showbiz calendar.

And having a lead role on a show that has been praised for its detailed costume design, Michelle Dockery didn't let the side down as she arrived at last night's Met Gala in New York in a stunning black and gold dress.

Her hair was swept and tied back and her drop gold earring completed the chic and elegant look which would have made Lady Mary proud.

She was joined by Laura Carmichael, 26, who plays her younger sister Lady Edith in the show and looked very classy in her dark blue dress by Emilia Wickstead.


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Downton Abbey's Laura Carmichael fears her character Lady Edith will be always the bridsemaid and never the bride.(MSN celebrity)

Updated: 19/12/2011 11:57 | By pa.press.net

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Laura Carmichael reckons there will be more heartache in store for Lady Edith

Downton Abbey's Laura Carmichael fears her character Lady Edith will be always the bridsemaid and never the bride.

While her sisters Lady Mary and Lady Sybil have their choice of men, Lady Edith has endured a series of heartbreaks. Speculating on what might be in store for her character in the third series, set in the roaring twenties, Laura joked she may take up flying after learning to drive a car.

Laura said: "Um, more heartache, who knows... the possibility of finding love - I don't know. No doubt, always the bridesmaid!"

She added: "We were talking about planes and trains. So maybe I'll take up flying now that I can drive."

Edith's older sister Mary Crawley is engaged to newspaper magnate Sir Richard Carlisle but is in love with Matthew Crawley, whose proposal she previously turned down.

Viewers are gripped as to whether Mary and Matthew will admit their love in the forthcoming Christmas special.

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