Sydney Box

Now head of script development at Gainsborough Studios (working for J. Arthur Rank , with her husband as managing director), MB produced scripts for Holiday Camp and Jassy (the latter from a novel by Norah Lofts

For the same company she also co-wrote with SydneyStreet Corner, released in April 1953, a film about policewomen. She directed it herself. While working on Street Corner she found herself—as a woman...

MB 's script for The Happy Family was directed by herself for her husband 's new company, London Independent Producers ; it had already opened in the USA as Mr Lord Says No!

MB 's motive was unabashed feminism. Unable to chain myself to the railings, I could at least rattle the film chains! Nonetheless, the script was by both her and her husband , adapted from a...

Rattle of a Simple Man was the last film scripted by MB and made by a Sydney Box company.

Ironically, MB was directing a frothy comedy about adultery, written by herself and Sydney and called Stranger in my Bed, at the time that her marriage to him was breaking up. The play...

Muriel and Sydney Box , calling themselves Evelyn August, issued a ragbag volume of stories, jokes, and pictures, The Black-out Book, being one-hundred-and-one black-out nights' entertainment.

During the Second World War, with Sydney Box working for the Christian Herald, MB sometimes helped him to fill his pages by contributing occasional verses of an uplifting tendency. These verses were printed like...

MB and Sydney Box published what Muriel later listed as her first novel, Forbidden Cargo: The Story of the Film.

She had in fact written it herself but based it on a script by her husband Sydney . The publisher wanted it to bear both their names since they thought boy readers would be put...

MB , who collaborated with her first husband, Sydney , in the mid twentieth century on numerous plays (the more than fifty which preceded the Second World War included two volumes of one-acters with all-female...

She dedicated it To Sydney with love.He had helped her with revisions at a time when, after several drafts, she had lost confidence in her work after having got nowhere with a play...

When Muriel Baker first read Sydney Box 's award-winning Murder Trial she wrote: A gem of a one-act play! She thought him likely to produce good work for films, and on this basis exchanged letters...

As well as writing for film and returning to continuity work, MB embarked during the Second World War on a career as a director, working at first for Verity Films . This had been founded...

Sydney Box suffered a cerebral haemorrhage in late 1959. (His wife had been worrying for some time that he was killing himself.) This resulted in some holiday time, but soon he was as busy as...