The film starred Ann Todd
(aged forty and giving a remarkable performance as a young girl) and James Mason
. MB
listed the screenplay among her own works at the beginning of The Big Switch...
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Marianne Chambers
MC
's five-act comedy The School for Friends opened at London's Drury Lane
.
James Mason
published a comedy of the same title in the second volume of his Literary Miscellanies, 1809.
Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press, 1996.
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Margaret Forster
Georgy Girl became a successful film, for which MF
was commissioned to write the script when already four months pregnant with her second baby. She said she was a disaster as a collaborative worker, since...
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Penelope Mortimer
PM
finished this book in spring this year, and again dedicated it to her second husband, John Mortimer
.
Lord, Graham. John Mortimer, The Devil’s Advocate. The Unauthorised Biography. Orion, 2005.