Sydney Box

After separating from her first husband , MB became one of the founders of Femina Books , the earliest British feminist publishing firm.

MB was still working as a continuity girl (responsible for keeping tracks of props and details of sets and shooting) when she wrote this play. It was apparently first professionally staged (as opposed to productions...

Muriel and Sydney Box , her lover and future husband, together published a volume entitled Ladies Only: Six One-act Plays with All-women Casts.

Muriel and Sydney Box issued a second collection of one-act plays for female performers, entitled Petticoat Plays, in 1935. After this volume Muriel recommended Sydney as writer for a documentary film, and his growing...

In the same year that she collaborated with her soon-to-be husband on Petticoat Plays, MB 's first independent play, Angels of War, appeared in Five New Full-Length Plays for All Women Casts, edited by John Bourne .

In financial panic at the outbreak of the Second World War, Muriel and Sydney Box sold the copyright in practically all the plays we had written to date to Samuel French, Ltd. for a thousand...

A comedy about wartime evacuees by Muriel and Sydney Box , Home from Home, opened at the Lyceum Theatre , Edinburgh, after various delays and disappointments.

Some of the Boxes' joint screenplays tackle the struggle by women for equality; these include The Years Between, 1946, and Good Time Girl, 1948. A piano solo from The Years Between, printed...

Muriel and Sydney Box 's film The Seventh Veil opened at Leicester Square Theatre (that is, cinema) and became a box-office hit. It brought them an Oscar for best original screenplay.

Some of MB 's scriptwriting left almost no trace on the subsequent record of works produced communally. For instance, The Astonished Heart, released in 1950, is listed as a British film starring Noël Coward

The play The Seventh Veil, adapted by Muriel and Sydney Box from their film of the same name, opened at the Prince's Theatre in London after the harrassing work of revision.

Similarly, So Long at the Fair, 1950, had a draft script by MB , a second draft made from hers by Sydney Box , and further work from both of us. The updated...

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...

The full title of this collection is The Shelter Book. A Gathering of Tales, Poems, Essays, Notes and Notions. Arranged by Clemence Dane, for use in shelters, tubes, basements and cellars in war-time.Muriel