Sydney Box

Standard Name: Box, Sydney

Used Form: Evelyn August

Connections

Connections	Author name Sort descending	Excerpt
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	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 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	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	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...
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	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 While working on Street Corner she found herself—as a woman...
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
Material Conditions of Writing	Muriel Box	Ironically, MB was directing a frothy comedy about adultery, Box, Muriel. Odd Woman Out. Leslie Frewin. 243 written by herself and Sydney and called Stranger in my Bed, at the time that her marriage to him was breaking up. The play...
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...
Publishing	Muriel Box	During the Second World War, with Sydney Box working for the Christian Herald, MB sometimes helped him to fill his pages by contributing occasional verses of an uplifting tendency. These verses were printed like...
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 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 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.