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 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...
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...

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