Martin Wainwright 

A winning movie formula – bra none

Hollywood is taking the story of Sally Robinson, whose ailing farm diversified into a mail order bra business, to its bosom
  
  

Sally Robinson of Amplebosom.com
Ample fodder for Hollywood: Sally Robinson of Amplebosom.com Photograph: Public domain

Hollywood's fascination with feisty women and underwear has landed a film double for Yorkshire - with a screenplay under way about an ailing farm which diversifies into selling large bras by mail.

The treatment of the real-life saga of Sally Robinson and items like the Fantasie Goddess has been commissioned by Harbour Films, whose Calendar Girls, to be released in September, tells the true story of a Yorkshire Women's Insti tute posing nude for charity. Amplebosom.com, the provisional title of the new venture, is "another great story of a woman taking up a challenge and succeeding", the company says.

Mrs Robinson welcomed the prospect of camera crews at Byland Abbey farm, near Thirsk, where she and her husband, John, hit on bras as a way to supplement their cattle business in 1999. The company has flourished by taking orders through the internet.

"The draft script sounds like a cross between Babe and Erin Brockovich," Mrs Robinson said.

"They did want a storyline where John and I split up because there was so much financial pressure, and then I became a successful businesswoman on my own. But I said, 'No, not even for the sake of art.'"

Victoria Wood is being discussed for the part of Mrs Robinson, who is 53 and now handles a £500,000 annual turnover - considerably greater than the farm's.

 

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