A Woman's Tale is a 1991 Australian film directed by Paul Cox. It stars Sheila Florance, Gosia Dobrowolska, Norman Kaye, Chris Haywood and Ernie Gray.

Martha (Florance) is an elderly woman living alone in her flat and dying of cancer. Her love of life leads to an ambivalence about her age; her unique moral code leads to her playing cupid for her friend and nurse Anna (Dobrowolska) and Anna’s married lover (Gray); her worrisome son (Haywood) wants her to move into a home; her neighbour Billy (Kaye) has dementia.

Florance herself was dying of cancer as the film was being shot. She died aged 75 nine days after being awarded the 1991 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.

A Woman's Tale grossed $49,584 at the box office in Australia. The film grossed $405,137 in the United States.

A Woman was Charlie Chaplin's ninth film for Essanay Films. It was made in Los Angeles at the Majestic Studio and released in 1915. The film starts with Chaplin meeting Edna (Edna Purviance) and her parents in a park; the mother is played by Marta Golden and the father by Charles Insley. In this film, Chaplin dresses as a woman to fool Edna's father. It was the third and last time Chaplin played the role of a woman on film. He played a woman in two Keystone films: The Masquerader and A Busy Day.

Paulus Henriqus Benedictus "Paul" Cox (born 16 April 1940) is an award-winning Australian film director.

Cox was born in Venlo, Limburg, the Netherlands, the son of Else (née Kuminack), a native of Germany, and Wim Cox, a documentary film producer. Cox emigrated to Australia in 1965. His teaching at Prahran College of Advanced Education in the 1970s influenced a number of photographers and film-makers including Carol Jerrems and Bill Henson. He has collaborated with a number of screenwriters including John Clarke and Bob Ellis.

His recent film-essay The Remarkable Mr. Kaye is a portrait of his ill friend, the actor Norman Kaye, who appeared in numerous Cox films.

On 26 December 2009 he received a liver transplant. A documentary about this experience is being made by David Bradbury.

Sheila Florance (24 July 1916 – 12 October 1991) was an Australian film and television actress.

After working in theatre in London and appearing on Australian television, Florance played small roles in several Australian films of the 1970s, including Mad Max (1979). She won two Logie Awards for her portrayal the elderly, Lizzie Birdsworth, in the television series Prisoner.

She left the series in 1984, and continued to work sporadically in Australian films. Her final performance, as a woman dying of cancer in A Woman's Tale (1991), was filmed while she was suffering from cancer herself. She won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, a week before her death from cancer.

Born in St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia, her passion for theatre took her to London, where she worked for 16 years,; and eventually back to Melbourne. Florance was a frequent guest star in various television series during the 1960s and was a regular on the Bellbird series. In the 1970s, she began appearing in films, most notably Petersen (1974), End Play (1975), The Devil's Playground (1976 film) (1976), and Mad Max (1979). Division 4

A tall tale is a story with unbelievable elements, related as if it were true and factual. Some such stories are exaggerations of actual events, for example fish stories ('the fish that got away') such as, "that fish was so big, why I tell ya', it nearly sank the boat when I pulled it in!" Other tall tales are completely fictional tales set in a familiar setting, such as the European countryside, the American Old West, the Canadian Northwest, or the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.

Tall tales are often told so as to make the narrator seem to have been a part of the story. They are usually humorous or good-natured. The line between myth and tall tale is distinguished primarily by age; many myths exaggerate the exploits of their heroes, but in tall tales the exaggeration looms large, to the extent of becoming the whole of the story.

The tall tale is a fundamental element of American folk literature. The tall tale's origins are seen in the bragging contests that often occurred when the rough men of the American frontier gathered. The tales of legendary figures of the Old West, some listed below, owe much to the style of tall tales.