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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/. under Sydney Box |
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. 248 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. 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. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Sydney Box |
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/. under Sydney Box |
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 |
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 |