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Holliday Grainger is an English screen and stage actress. Great Expectations, British dramatic film, released in 1946, that was based on the Charles Dickens novel of the same name. Miss Havisham and Satis House, both in ruins, represent wealth and social status for Pip; the irony is obvious. Pirrip, Philip – This character, also known as “Pip”, is the main character in Great Expectations. Estella Havisham (best known in literature simply as Estella) is a significant character in the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations.. Like the protagonist, Pip, Estella is introduced as an orphan, but where Pip was raised by his sister and her husband to become a blacksmith, Estella was adopted and raised by the wealthy and eccentric Miss Havisham to become a lady. With them, Dickens extends his satire of society from the abuse of children and criminals to the corruption of wealth. Estella (Great Expectations) - one of the purples. Pip – See Pirrip, Philip. Some of her prominent roles include Lucrezia Borgia in the Showtime series. Pip occasionally spends time at the house of the spinster Miss Havisham (Martita Hunt), Holliday Grainger as Estella in 'Great Expectations' Costume design by Beatrix Aruna Pasztor. Pip, like young Charles Dickens, dreams of becoming a gentleman. Maxine Audley as Miss Havisham and Christopher Guard as Pip, Great Expectations, BBC, 1967 Great Expectations (1946) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Their decayed state prefigures the emptiness of Pip's dream of rising in social status and of so being worthy of Estella. The film follows Pip (played by Anthony Wager), an impoverished orphan in rural England. During the course of the novel Pip learns that there are things much more important than wealth and station. Only the very last scenes of the adaptation (Pip’s ‘final’ encounter with Estella) are correctly and unambiguously Victorian (the unfolding of both endings of the novel can roughly be dated to 1840-1845). Great Expectations is a 1946 British film directed by David Lean, based on the novel by Charles Dickens and starring John Mills, Bernard Miles, Finlay Currie, Jean Simmons, Martita Hunt, Alec Guinness and Valerie Hobson.It won two Academy Awards (Best Art Direction and Best Cinematography) and was nominated for three others (Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay).