Stage Beauty (2004)

Set in the 1660s at a time when in live theatre women's roles were played by men, Edward 'Ned' Kynaston is England's most celebrated leading lady, using his beauty and skill to make the great female roles his own. But when Charles II is tired of seeing the same old performers, the ruler allows real women to tread the boards and men may no longer play women's parts. Ned becomes a nobody, virtually overnight and seems headed for suicide till his ex-dresser turned actress Maria takes it upon herself to make a man out of him again.

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