An opportunity for a mature female actor to not only star but also take the titular role. This is the surprising comedy about a thin ghostly widow who dressed in hideously ugly and unflattering clothes. An American, she was niece of a slave trader, emigre to Russia, escaped the union civil war blockade to arrive into her son’s bohemian existence amid the cream of Landon’s artistic worlds.
As Oscar Wilde explains, “this is a story of art, aestheticism, flamboyance and despair; of an artistic brotherhood pulled apart then saved by the one, the only, the improbable Anna McNeil Whistler, known to us as Jimmy’s Mum.”