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Sydney Box
Standard Name: Box, Sydney
Used Form: Evelyn August
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Muriel Box | MB
later wrote of her collaboration with Sydney
that he was an incurable optimist and she an incurable pessimist, so that together they made a nice balance. She also said he was good at taking... |
| Textual Production | Muriel Box | 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... |
| Textual Production | Muriel Box | 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... |
| Textual Production | Muriel Box | Muriel
and Sydney Box
, her lover and future husband, together published a volume entitled Ladies Only: Six One-act Plays with All-women Casts. The date comes from the Bodleian Library
's acquisition stamp. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Sydney Box |
| Textual Production | Muriel Box | 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
. Tylee, Claire M. et al., editors. War Plays by Women: An International Anthology. Routledge. 111 |
| Textual Production | Muriel Box | 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 |
| Textual Production | Muriel Box | 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. Box, Muriel. Odd Woman Out. Leslie Frewin. 201 |
| Textual Production | Muriel Box | For the same company
she also co-wrote with SydneyStreet Corner, released in April 1953, a film about policewomen. She directed it herself. Box, Muriel. Odd Woman Out. Leslie Frewin. 214 |
| 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 | Muriel Box | 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... |
| Textual Production | Muriel Box | 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! Box, Muriel. Odd Woman Out. Leslie Frewin. 214 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Sydney Box |
| Textual Production | Muriel Box | Rattle of a Simple Man was the last film scripted by MB
and made by a Sydney Box
company. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Sydney Box |
| Textual Production | Muriel Box | 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. The government enforcement of the blackout of... |
| Textual Production | Muriel Box | 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... |
| Textual Production | Muriel Box | MB
and Sydney Box
published what Muriel later listed as her first novel, Forbidden Cargo: The Story of the Film. Date from Bodleian Library
acquisition stamp. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. Box, Muriel. The Big Switch. Macdonald. prelims |
Timeline
By 28 November 1934: The young Flora Robson, in A Letter to a...
Building item
By 28 November 1934
The young Flora Robson
, in A Letter to a Young Actress, contributed as a preface to Ladies Only by Muriel
and Sydney Box
, provided a fascinating account of women's part in amateur...
Late 1940: During heavy bombing of London by Hitler's...
National or international item
Late 1940
During heavy bombing of London by Hitler
's airforce, film-maker Sydney Box
reported anti-semitism in the British Air Ministry
, who wanted someone to make a propaganda film but won't do business with Jews.
Texts
Robson, Flora et al. “A Letter to a Young Actress”. Ladies Only, George G. Harrap, 1934, pp. 7-10.
Box, Muriel, and Sydney Box. Forbidden Cargo. William Heinemann, 1957.
Box, Muriel, and Sydney Box. Ladies Only. George G. Harrap, 1934.
Box, Muriel, and Sydney Box. The Black-out Book. G. H. Harrap, 1939.
Box, Muriel, and Sydney Box. The Truth About Women. Frederick Muller, 1939.