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George Moresby-White
George Moresby-White was a British playwright and screenwriter. He is also known as G.H. Moresby-White. One of his plays was the basis for the 1955 comedy film '' No Smoking''.Halliwell p.829 Selected filmography * ''Britannia of Billingsgate'' (1933) * '' Friday the Thirteenth'' (1933) * '' Midnight Menace'' (1937) * '' Take a Chance'' (1937) * ''The Heirloom Mystery ''The Heirloom Mystery'' is a 1936 British drama film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Edward Rigby, Mary Glynne and Gus McNaughton. After being secretly commissioned by a man to create a replica piece of furniture so he can sell the valu ...'' (1937) References Bibliography * Halliwell, Leslie. ''Halliwell's Film Guide''. HarperPerennial, 1996. External links * British writers British male screenwriters {{UK-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays. Etymology The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder (as in a wheelwright or cartwright). The words combine to indicate a person who has "wrought" words, themes, and other elements into a dramatic form—a play. (The homophone with "write" is coincidental.) The first recorded use of the term "playwright" is from 1605, 73 years before the first written record of the term "dramatist". It appears to have been first used in a pejorative sense by Ben Jonson to suggest a mere tradesman fashioning works for the theatre. Jonson uses the word in his Epigram 49, which is thought to refer to John Marston: :''Epigram XLIX — On Playwright'' :PLAYWRIGHT me reads, and still my verses damns, :He says I want the tongue of epigrams ; :I have no salt, no bawdry he doth mea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. Terminology In the silent era, writers now considered screenwriters were denoted by terms such as photoplaywright, photoplay writer, photoplay dramatist and screen playwright.Steven Maras. ''Screenwriting: History, Theory and Practice.'' Wallflower Press, 2009. pp. 82–85. Screenwriting historian Steven Maras notes that these early writers were often understood as being the authors of the films as shown and argues that they cannot be precisely equated with present-day screenwriters because they were responsible for a technical product, a brief "scenario", "treatment", or "synopsis" that is a written synopsis of what is to be filmed. Profession Screenwriting is a freelance profession. No education is required to be a professional scree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Smoking (1955 Film)
''No Smoking'' is a 1955 British comedy film directed by Henry Cass and starring Reg Dixon, Peter Martyn, Belinda Lee and Lionel Jeffries. It was produced by Tempean Films as a second feature. The film was shot at Southall Studios with sets designed by the art director Wilfred Arnold. Shortly after the production Lee was signed up for a contract with the Rank Organisation. Synopsis Reg Bates is a scientist who invents a pill that can cure smokers of their nicotine addiction. This is revealed by a visiting American, Hal Hurst. Bates faces strong opposition from both the tobacco industry and the government. Cast * Reg Dixon as Reg Bates * Peter Martyn as Hal Hurst * Belinda Lee as Miss Tonkins * Ruth Trouncer as Joyce * Alexander Gauge as Wellington-Simpson * Lionel Jeffries as George Pogson * Myrtle Rowe as Milly * Arthur Young as Joe Dawson * Hal Osmond as Yokel * Tom Gill as Foreign Office Official * Ronnie Stevens as BBC Man * Alan Robinson as Thackery * Bill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Britannia Of Billingsgate
''Britannia of Billingsgate'' is a 1933 British musical comedy film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Violet Loraine, Gordon Harker, Kay Hammond and John Mills. A family who work in the fish trade at Billingsgate Market encounter a film crew who are shooting there. It was based on the play ''Britannia of Billingsgate'' by Christine Jope-Slade and Sewell Stokes. It was shot at the Lime Grove Studios in London. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alfred Junge. Cast * Violet Loraine as Bessie Bolton * Gordon Harker as Bert Bolton * Kay Hammond as Pearl Bolton * John Mills as Fred Bolton * Drusilla Wills as Mrs Wrigley * Walter Sondes as Harold Hogarth * Glennis Lorimer as Maud * Anthony Holles as Guidobaldi * Joyce Kirby as Joan * Gibb McLaughlin as Westerbrook * Grethe Hansen as Gwen * Wally Patch as Harry * Ernest Sefton as Publicity man Speedway scenes The motorcycle speedway scenes from the film were shot at Hackney Wick Stadium and featured some of the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friday The Thirteenth (1933 Film)
''Friday the Thirteenth'' is a 1933 British drama film directed by Victor Saville and starring Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale and Muriel Aked. Plot The film depicts the lives of several passengers in the hours before they are involved in a bus crash. Cast * Jessie Matthews as Millie * Sonnie Hale as Alf the Conductor * Muriel Aked as Miss Twigg * Cyril Smith - Fred the Driver * Richard Hulton as Johnny * Max Miller as Joe * Alfred Drayton as The Detective * Hartley Power as American tourist * Percy Parsons as American tourist * Ursula Jeans as Eileen Jackson * Eliot Makeham as Henry Jackson * D. A. Clarke-Smith as Max * Gibb McLaughlin as Florist * Edmund Gwenn as Mr Wakefield * Mary Jerrold as Flora Wakefield * Gordon Harker as Hamilton Briggs * Emlyn Williams as William Blake * Frank Lawton as Frank Parsons * Belle Chrystall as Marry Summers * O. B. Clarence as Clerk * Robertson Hare as Ralph Lightfoot * Martita Hunt as Agnes Lightfoot * Leonora Corbett as Dolly * Ralph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midnight Menace (1937 Film)
''Midnight Menace'' is a 1937 British thriller film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Charles Farrell, Margaret Vyner, Fritz Kortner and Danny Green. The screenplay concerns an international arms manufacturing firm's plans to start a war in Europe by bombing London. It was released in the United States as ''Bombs Over London''. Production The film was made at Pinewood Studios. Its original script was written by Alexander Mackendrick.Philip Kemp, Lethal Innocence : The Cinema of Alexander Mackendrick, London, Methuen, 1991, p. 6-7. The film's sets were designed by Wilfred Arnold. Cast * Charles Farrell as Brian Gaunt * Margaret Vyner as Mary Stevens * Fritz Kortner as Peters * Danny Green as Socks * Wallace Evennett as Smith * Monti DeLyle as Pierre * Dino Galvani as Tony * Arthur Finn as Mac, Newspaper Editor * Laurence Hanray as Sir George, Lead Conspirator * Arthur Gomez as Baron von Kleisch, Delegate * Raymond Lovell as Harris * Evan John as Doctor Marsh * Reynes B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Take A Chance (1937 Film)
''Take a Chance'' is a 1937 British comedy film, comedy sports film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Claude Hulbert, Binnie Hale, and Henry Kendall (actor), Henry Kendall. It depicts farcical events in the horse racing world. Synopsis The cynical Richard Carfax develops a relationship with Cicely Burton, the wife of a race horse owner, in order to get inside information on a horse named 'Take a Chance' which is considered to be the favorite in an upcoming race. Her suspicious husband hires Alastair Pallivant, an incompetent tipster and part-time detective, to tail her and swears that he will scratch the horse from the race if he uncovers evidence about Carfax and his wife. Having his own private arrangement with a betting gang, Pallivant does everything he can to prevent the favourite from running. However, he encounters the equally determined Wilhelmina Ryde, a garage owner who stands to win heavily if the favorite rides to victory. Main cast * Claude Hulbert as Alastair ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Heirloom Mystery
''The Heirloom Mystery'' is a 1936 British drama film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Edward Rigby, Mary Glynne and Gus McNaughton. After being secretly commissioned by a man to create a replica piece of furniture so he can sell the valuable original without his wife knowing, Charles Marriott's firm find themselves under investigation. It was made at the Nettlefold Studios in Walton, as a quota quickie for distribution by RKO Pictures.Chibnall p.289 Cast * Edward Rigby as Charles Marriott * Mary Glynne as Lady Benton * Gus McNaughton as Alfred Fisher * Marjorie Taylor as Mary * John Robinson as Dick Marriott * Martin Lewis as Sir Arthur Benton * Kathleen Gibson as Doris * Louanne Shaw as Millie * Bruce Lester as Alf Dene * H. F. Maltby as Mr. Lewis * Michael Ripper Michael George Ripper (27 January 1913 – 28 June 2000) was an English character actor. He began his film career in quota quickies in the 1930s and until the late 1950s was virtually unknown; he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Writers
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom or, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *''Brit(ish)'', a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) See also * Terminology of the British Isles * Alternative names for the British * English (other) * Britannic (other) * British Isles * Brit (other) * Brito ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
