Rueben's Ramblings

On November 24, The Chaperone will debut on PBS at 9 PM.

Louise Brooks (Haley Lu Richardson from the box office film Five Feet Apart), the 1920s silver screen sensation who never met a rule she didn’t break, epitomized the restless, reckless spirit of the Jazz Age. But, just a few years earlier, she was a 15 year-old student in Wichita, Kansas for whom fame and fortune were only dreams.

When the opportunity arises for her to go to New York to study with a leading dance troupe, her mother (Victoria Hill) insists there be a chaperone. Norma Carlisle (Elizabeth McGovern from Downton Abbey Downton), a local society matron who never broke a rule in her life, impulsively volunteers to accompany Louise to New York for the summer.

Here is a trailer for The Chaperone: