Lady Caroline Lamb (film)
Lady Caroline Lamb is a 1972 British epic romantic drama film based on the life of Lady Caroline Lamb, novelist, sometime lover of Lord Byron and wife of politician William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne. The only film written and directed by Robert Bolt, it starred his wife, Sarah Miles, as Lady Caroline, Jon Finch, Richard Chamberlain, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, John Mills, Margaret Leighton and Michael Wilding.
Theatrical release poster, artwork by Ted CoConis
Lady Caroline Lamb was an Anglo-Irish aristocrat and novelist, best known for Glenarvon, a Gothic novel. In 1812, she had an affair with Lord Byron, whom she described as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know". Her husband was the Honourable William Lamb, who after her death became 2nd Viscount Melbourne and British prime minister.
Lady Caroline Lamb, painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence
Lady Caroline's mother, Henrietta, Countess of Bessborough, by Angelica Kauffman in 1793
Lady Caroline Lamb, née Ponsonby
Portrait of Lord Byron in 1813, by Thomas Phillips