J. Arthur Rank

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Occupation Muriel Box
The first film she directed was The English Inn, 1941, described on the British Film Institute website as a typical Verity propaganda short produced for the British Council .
Spicer, Andrew. “Box, Muriel (1905-1991)”. British Film Institute (bfi): screenonline.
After this came a setback....
Textual Production Catherine Cookson
J. Arthur Rank filmed this one as well, and again transplanted the story to Ireland and added a phoney Irishness. (Rooney, no longer a dustman, becomes a champion hurler.) CC received £150 from Corgi for...
Textual Production Muriel 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
Textual Production Catherine Cookson
A Grand Man was filmed for J. Arthur Rank on location in Ireland; CC travelled there, postponing a scheduled hysterectomy to do so, to collaborate on the script. She was disappointed that so little...

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