Sydney 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

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.

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. The updated...

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.

For the same company she also co-wrote with SydneyStreet Corner, released in April 1953, a film about policewomen. She directed it herself. While working on Street Corner she found herself—as a woman...

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

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...

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!

Ironically, MB was directing a frothy comedy about adultery, written by herself and Sydney and called Stranger in my Bed, at the time that her marriage to him was breaking up. The play...

Rattle of a Simple Man was the last film scripted by MB and made by a Sydney Box company.

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...

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.

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...

MB and Sydney Box published what Muriel later listed as her first novel, Forbidden Cargo: The Story of the Film.

The full title of this collection is The Shelter Book. A Gathering of Tales, Poems, Essays, Notes and Notions. Arranged by Clemence Dane, for use in shelters, tubes, basements and cellars in war-time.Muriel