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Ann Veronica (film)
''Ann Veronica'' is a 1952 British TV version of the 1909 H. G. Wells novel of the same name. It stars Margaret Lockwood. Lockwood was going to make a film version of this book in 1950 after '' Highly Dangerous''. The project kept being delayed. She made it after ''Trent's Last Case''. She wrote "I had already developed a great liking for televised plays and this one was an interesting part." The production was well received. In 1964 the novel was adapted into a four-part BBC series '' Ann Veronica'' starring Rosemary Nicols. References External links *''Ann Veronica''at BFIReview of productionat ''Variety'' 1952 television plays British television plays Films based on works by H. G. Wells {{UK-tv-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Campbell Logan
Campbell Logan (1910–1978) was a British television producer and director.Jane Austen on Screen p.261 He produced a large number of serials for the BBC, often based on classic works of literature. Selected filmography * ''BBC Sunday-Night Theatre'' (1950-1959) * ''The Warden'' (1951) * ''Ann Veronica'' (1952) * ''Jane Eyre'' (1956) * '' Vanity Fair'' (1956) * ''Precious Bane'' (1957) * '' The Royalty'' (1957-1958) * '' Charlesworth'' (1959) * '' The Naked Lady'' (1959) * ''Emma'' (1960) * ''Persuasion'' (1960) * ''The Men from Room 13'' (1961) * ''Dr. Finlay's Casebook'' (1962-1964) * ''Kidnapped'' (1963) * ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' (1964) * ''Martin Chuzzlewit'' (1964) * ''Smuggler's Bay'' (1964) * ''Rupert of Hentzau'' (1964) * ''Alexander Graham Bell'' (1965) * ''Poison Island'' (1965) * ''Heiress of Garth'' (1965) * ''Hereward the Wake'' (1965) * ''Silas Marner'' (1965) * ''A Tale of Two Cities'' (1965) * ''David Copperfield'' (1966) * ''The Queen's Traitor'' (1967) * ''P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Lockwood
Margaret Mary Day Lockwood, CBE (15 September 1916 – 15 July 1990), was an English actress. One of Britain's most popular film stars of the 1930s and 1940s, her film appearances included ''The Lady Vanishes'' (1938), ''Night Train to Munich'' (1940), ''The Man in Grey'' (1943), and ''The Wicked Lady'' (1945). She was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British Actress for the 1955 film ''Cast a Dark Shadow''. She also starred in the television series ''Justice'' (1971–74). Early life Lockwood was born on 15 September 1916 in Karachi, British India, to Henry Francis Lockwood, an English administrator of a railway company, and his third wife, Scottish-born Margaret Eveline Waugh. She returned to England in 1920 with her mother, brother 'Lyn' and half-brother Frank, and a further half-sister 'Fay' joined them the following year, but her father remained in Karachi, visiting them infrequently. She also had another half-brother, John, from her father's first marriage, brought ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Veronica
''Ann Veronica'' is a novel by H. G. Wells published in 1909. It describes the rebellion of Ann Veronica Stanley, "a young lady of nearly two-and-twenty", against her middle-class father's stern patriarchal rule. The novel dramatizes the contemporary problem of the New Woman. It is set in Victorian era London and environs, except for an Alpine excursion. ''Ann Veronica'' offers vignettes of the women's suffrage movement in Great Britain and features a chapter inspired by the 1908 attempt of suffragettes to storm Parliament. Plot Mr. Stanley forbids his adult daughter, a biology student at Tredgold Women's College and the youngest of his five children, to attend a fancy dress ball in London, causing a crisis. Ann Veronica is planning to attend the dance with friends of a down-at-heel artistic family living nearby and has been chafing at other restrictions imposed on her for no apparent reason. After her father resorts to force to stop her from attending the ball, she leaves her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highly Dangerous
''Highly Dangerous'' is a 1950 British spy film starring Margaret Lockwood. The screenplay was written by Eric Ambler. It was released in the US by Lippert Pictures as ''Time Running Out''. Plot Frances Gray is as a British entomologist trying to stop a biological attack with the help of an American journalist. Cast Production Margaret Lockwood had not made a film in 18 months following ''Madness of the Heart'', and had been focusing on stage work. Earl St John wanted a comeback vehicle and commissioned Eric Ambler to write a film specifically as a vehicle for Lockwood. Ambler had recently specialised in melodramas, but ''Highly Dangerous'' was a comedy thriller in the vein of Lockwood's earlier hits, ''The Lady Vanishes'' and ''Night Train to Munich''. It was directed by Roy Ward Baker, who had served with Ambler during the war. "One thing about Eric is that he presents you with a script that is beautifully finished in every detail", said Baker. "I think Margaret Lockwood w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brisbane Telegraph
The ''Telegraph'' was an evening newspaper published in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was first published on 1 October 1872 and its final edition appeared on 5 February 1988. In its day it was recognised as one of the best news pictorial newspapers in the country.Daily Sun, Saturday, 6 February 1988 Its Pink Sports edition (printed distinctively on pink newsprint and sold on Brisbane streets from about 6 pm on Saturdays) was a particularly excellent production produced under tight deadlines. It included results and pictures of Brisbane's Saturday afternoon sports including the results of the last horse race of the day. History In 1871 a group of local businessmen, Robert Armour, John Killeen Handy (M.L.A. for Brisbane), John Warde, John Burns, J. D. Heale and J. K. Buchanan formed the Telegraph Newspaper Co. Ltd. The editor was Theophilus Parsons Pugh, a former editor of the ''Brisbane Courier'' and founder of ''Pugh's Almanac''.Queensland Press Limited history report 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mirror (Western Australia)
''The Mirror'' was a weekly broadsheet newspaper published from 1921 until 1956. It was the "scandal sheet" of its day, dealing with divorce cases and scandals. History In 1918, Victor Desmond Courtney in partnership with John Joseph Simons, became managing editor of a weekly sporting newspaper, ''The Sportsman'', which covered racing, trotting, minor sports and theatricals. They expanded the scope of ''The Sportsman'', to cover general local news and renamed it ''The Call''. The paper gained publicity from a libel suit brought by the Lord Mayor of Perth, Sir William Lathlain. They then bought a struggling Saturday-evening paper, ''The Sunday Mirror'', for £100 from Bryan's Print,Historical Encyclopedia of Western Australia, Jenny Gregory & Jan Gothard, eds, pp593 renaming it ''The Mirror'', and building its circulation during the 1920s to over 10,000, largely through racy reporting of scandals and divorces. "It was not a good paper" Courtney later admitted, "but it was a pap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sydney Morning Herald
''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily compact newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and owned by Nine. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia and "the most widely-read masthead in the country." The newspaper is published in compact print form from Monday to Saturday as ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' and on Sunday as its sister newspaper, '' The Sun-Herald'' and digitally as an online site and app, seven days a week. It is considered a newspaper of record for Australia. The print edition of ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' is available for purchase from many retail outlets throughout the Sydney metropolitan area, most parts of regional New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and South East Queensland. Overview ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' publishes a variety of supplements, including the magazines ''Good Weekend'' (included in the Saturday edition of ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mail (Adelaide)
The ''Sunday Mail'' (originally titled ''The Mail'') is an Adelaide newspaper first published on 4 May 1912 by Clarence Moody. Through much of the 20th century, '' The Advertiser'' was Adelaide's morning broadsheet, '' The News'' the afternoon tabloid, ''The Sunday Mail'' a vehicle for covering weekend sport, and ''Messenger Newspapers'' covering community news. "Sunday Mail" is a business name of Advertiser Newspapers Pty Ltd, a private company that is part of News Corp Australia, which since 2004 has been a component of the U.S. multinational mass media company, News Corp. History ''Mail'' In 1912, Clarence Moody initially set up three newspapers – the ''Sporting Mail'' (1912-1914), ''Saturday Mail'' (1912-1917), and the ''Mail''. The first two titles lasted only a few years, and the ''Mail'' itself went into liquidation in late 1914. Ownership passed briefly to George Annells and Frank Stone, and then to Herbert Syme. In May 1923 News Limited purchased the ''Mail'' an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Veronica (TV Series)
''Ann Veronica'' is a 1964 British television drama series which first aired on BBC 2. It is an adaptation of the 1909 novel of the same title by H.G. Wells.Baskin p.67 The title role of the Edwardian suffragette was played by Rosemary Nicols. An earlier television film of the novel had been made, starring Margaret Lockwood. Cast * Rosemary Nicols as Ann Veronica * Gay Cameron as Hetty Widgett * Jean Conroy as Emily * Margaret Gordon as Miss Miniver * Laurence Hardy as Mr. Stanley * Gillian Lind as Miss Stanley * Sheila Ballantine as Kitty Brett * Philip Bond as Mr. Capes * Barrie Ingham as Hubert Manning * Kay Patrick as Miss Garvice * Alan Tilvern as Edwin Ramage * Kitty Atwood as Mrs. Mudge * Agnes Lauchlan as Lady Palsworthy * George A. Cooper George Alphonsus Cooper (7 March 1925 – 16 November 2018) was an English actor and voice artist. He died in November 2018 at the age of 93. Early life Cooper was born in Leeds, the son of William and Eleanor (née Dob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosemary Nicols
Rosemary Nicols (born Rosemary Claxton; 28 October 1941, in Bradford, England) is a British actress. She comes from a theatrical family and was the author of the 1967 book ''The Loving Adventures of Jaby''. Biography She was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls in Acton, west London. She made appearances as a child actress, before studying at the Central School of Speech and Drama and went into rep at Harrogate, Frinton-on-Sea and Wimbledon amongst others. Her first London lead was in ''Something Nasty in the Woodshed''. In films, she featured in '' The Blue Lamp'' (1950), '' The Pleasure Girls'' (1965) and '' The Mini Affair'' (1967), and on stage in ''Fiddler on the Roof'' with Topol. She appeared in numerous television series such as the sci-fi drama '' Undermind'' in 1965, and ''Man in a Suitcase'' in 1968 but her best-known role was as computer expert Annabelle Hurst in the television series '' Department S''. She played the title role in the 1964 BBC series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1952 Television Plays
Year 195 ( CXCV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Scrapula and Clemens (or, less frequently, year 948 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 195 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus has the Roman Senate deify the previous emperor Commodus, in an attempt to gain favor with the family of Marcus Aurelius. * King Vologases V and other eastern princes support the claims of Pescennius Niger. The Roman province of Mesopotamia rises in revolt with Parthian support. Severus marches to Mesopotamia to battle the Parthians. * The Roman province of Syria is divided and the role of Antioch is diminished. The Romans annexed the Syrian cities of Edessa and Nisibis. Severus re-establish his hea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Television Plays
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