Sydney Box

Standard Name: Box, Sydney
Used Form: Evelyn August

Connections

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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...
Family and Intimate relationships Muriel Box
Muriel Baker and the journalist and writer Sydney Box , who were living together, got married at Holborn chiefly because their lawyer told them this would improve their chances in a libel suit.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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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...
Occupation Muriel Box
After separating from her first husband , MB became one of the founders of Femina Books , the earliest British feminist publishing firm.
Box, Muriel. Odd Woman Out. Leslie Frewin.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Publishing Muriel Box
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...
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
Performance of text Muriel Box
A comedy about wartime evacuees by Muriel and Sydney Box , Home from Home, opened at the Lyceum Theatre , Edinburgh, after various delays and disappointments.
Box, Muriel. Odd Woman Out. Leslie Frewin.
150
Textual Features Muriel Box
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...
Performance of text Muriel Box
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.
Box, Muriel. Odd Woman Out. Leslie Frewin.
182
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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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
Performance of text Muriel Box
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.
Box, Muriel. Odd Woman Out. Leslie Frewin.
210
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
The updated...
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

Timeline

By 28 November 1934: The young Flora Robson, in A Letter to a...

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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...

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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.