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Val Valentine
Val Valentine (1895–1971) was a British screenwriter. Selected filmography * '' The Vagabond Queen'' (1929) * ''Alf's Carpet'' (1929) * ''Elstree Calling'' (1930) * ''Why Sailors Leave Home'' (1930) * '' The Rocket Bus'' (1930) * ''The Compulsory Husband'' (1930) * ''The Yellow Mask'' (1930) * '' Almost a Honeymoon'' (1930) * ''Compromising Daphne'' (1930) * ''Song of Soho'' (1930) * '' Old Soldiers Never Die'' (1931) * ''The Love Habit'' (1931) * ''The Wife's Family'' (1931) * ''Poor Old Bill'' (1931) * ''Rich and Strange'' (1931) * ''Kiss Me Sergeant'' (1932) * ''Pyjamas Preferred'' (1932) * '' Get That Venus'' (1933) * ''Captain Bill'' (1936) * ''The Girl in the Taxi'' (1937) * ''Feather Your Nest'' (1937) * '' Cafe Colette'' (1937) * '' Keep Smiling'' (1938) * ''The High Command'' (1938) * '' Come on George!'' (1939) * ''Shipyard Sally'' (1939) * ''Gasbags'' (1941) * '' Waterloo Road'' (1945) * ''I'll Be Your Sweetheart'' (1945) * '' This Man Is Mine'' (1946) * ''This Was a W ... [...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] |
Pyjamas Preferred
''Pyjamas Preferred'' is a 1932 British comedy film directed by Val Valentine and starring Betty Amann, Kenneth Kove and Jay Laurier. It was based on the play ''The Red Dog'' by J.O. Twiss. It was shot at Welwyn Studios as a quota quickie.Chibnall p.265 Premise In France the husband of a purity league leader runs a shady nightclub. Cast * Betty Amann as Violet Ray * Kenneth Kove as Reverend Samson Sneed * Jay Laurier as Pierre Gautier * Jack Morrison as Gustave * Fred Schwartz as Orsoni * Amy Veness Amy Veness (26 February 1876 – 22 September 1960) was an English film actress. She played the role of Grandma Huggett in ''The Huggetts Trilogy'' and was sometimes credited as Amy Van Ness. Veness was born Amy Clarice Beart in Aldeburgh, Suf ... as Madame Gautier * Hugh E. Wright as Grock References Bibliography * Chibnall, Steve. ''Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British 'B' Film''. British Film Institute, 2007. * Low, Rachael. ''Filmmaking in 1930s Britain''. George ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This Man Is Mine (1946 Film)
''This Man Is Mine'' is a 1946 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Tom Walls, Glynis Johns and Jeanne De Casalis. The screenplay concerns a Canadian soldier who is billeted with a British family for the Christmas holidays. It was based on the hit West End play '' A Soldier for Christmas'' by Reginald Beckwith.Baskin & Enser p.421 The film was shot at Pinewood Studios with sets designed by the art director George Provis. It was the final film of French director Varnel, known for his many comedies featuring music hall stars including Will Hay and George Formby, who died in a car accident following the shooting of the film. Premise The wealthy Ferguson family are planning a quiet Christmas at their home in the countryside of Southern England. A series of disruptions begin with the arrival of the married elder daughter, who has fled her London home after a row with her husband. This is followed successively by Millie a WAAF NAAFI girl who used to be a ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I'll Be Your Sweetheart
''I'll Be Your Sweetheart'' is a 1945 British historical musical film directed by Val Guest and starring Margaret Lockwood, Vic Oliver and Michael Rennie. It was the first and only musical film produced by Gainsborough Studios. Commissioned by the British Ministry of Information, it was set at the beginning of the 20th century, and was about the composers of popular music hall songs fighting for a new copyright law that will protect them from having their songs stolen. Copyright scholar Adrian Johns has called the film "propaganda" and "a one-dimensional account of the piracy crisis bout sheet music in the early 20th century">sheet_music.html" ;"title="bout sheet music">bout sheet music in the early 20th centuryfrom the publishers' perspective", but also highlighted its value as historical document, with large parts of the dialogue "closely culled from the actual raids, court cases, and arguments of 1900-1905." Plot In 1900 Bob Fielding arrives in London from the north of Engla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waterloo Road (film)
''Waterloo Road'' is a 1945 British film directed by Sidney Gilliat and starring John Mills, Stewart Granger, and Alastair Sim. It is based on the Waterloo area of South London. According to the British Film Institute database, it is the third in an "unofficial trilogy" by Gilliat, preceded by ''Millions Like Us'' (1943) and ''Two Thousand Women'' (1944). Premise A soldier, Jim Colter (Mills), goes AWOL to return to his home in south London to save his wife from the advances of Ted Purvis (Granger), a philandering conscription-dodger. Cast * John Mills as Jim Colter * Stewart Granger as Ted Purvis * Alastair Sim as Dr. Montgomery * Joy Shelton as Tillie Colter * Alison Leggatt as Ruby * Beatrice Varley as Mrs. Colter * George Carney as Tom Mason * Leslie Bradley as Mike Duggan * Jean Kent as Toni * Ben Williams as Corporal Lewis * Anna Konstam as May * Vera Frances as Vera Colter * George Merritt as Air Raid Warden Production The film was originally known as ''Blue for Water ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gasbags
''Gasbags'' is a 1941 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and Marcel Varnel and starring The Crazy Gang as well as Moore Marriott. The film was a morale-booster in the early part of the Second World War. Production It was shot at the Lime Grove Studios in London. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alex Vetchinsky. It was the fourth and final film starring the comedians at Gainsborough Pictures. Flanagan and Allen subsequently moved to British National where they made a further four films over the next few years. Plot summary The Crazy Gang's mobile fish and chip shop is tethered to a barrage balloon which lifts the shop into the air and the gang is carried to Nazi Germany. They are captured but break out of prison, impersonate Adolf Hitler and return to England in a stolen secret weapon. Cast *Bud Flanagan as Bud * Chesney Allen as Ches * Jimmy Nervo as Cecil * Teddy Knox as Knoxy * Charlie Naughton as Charlie *Jimmy Gold as Goldy *Moore Marriott as J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shipyard Sally
''Shipyard Sally'' is a 1939 British musical comedy film directed by Monty Banks and starring Gracie Fields, Sydney Howard and Norma Varden. The film is notable for the song "Wish Me Luck as You Wave Me Goodbye", which became a major hit. Plot Sally, a failed music hall performer, and her father take over a pub near the John Brown & Company shipyard at Clydebank. When the closure of the yard threatens to put many out of work she leads a campaign to persuade the government to reconsider the decision. Production Made shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, it was Fields' last British film. It was shot at Islington Studios with sets designed by Alex Vetchinsky.Wood p.101 Cast * Gracie Fields as Sally Fitzgerald * Sydney Howard as Major Fitzgerald * Morton Selten as Lord Alfred Randall * Norma Varden as Lady Patricia Randall * Oliver Wakefield as Forsyth * Tucker McGuire as Linda Marsh * MacDonald Parke as Diggs * Richard Cooper as Sir John Treacher * Joan Cowick as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The High Command
''The High Command'' is a 1937 British drama film directed by Thorold Dickinson and starring Lionel Atwill, Lucie Mannheim and James Mason. It was shot at Ealing Studios and on location on the Gold Coast. The film's sets were designed by the art director Holmes Paul. It is an adaptation of the 1936 novel ''The General Goes Too Far'' by Lewis Robinson. Plot This is the tale of an English officer who murders a man in Ireland for chivalrous reasons. Years later, he has risen to the rank of Major-General, and is stationed in West Africa. There, his old crime is discovered, and he allows himself to be murdered rather than involve his daughter in his own disgrace.Greene, Graham. The Graham Greene Film Reader: Reviews, Essays, Interviews & Film Stories', p. 208 (Hal Leonard Corporation, 1994). Cast *Lionel Atwill as Maj. Gen. Sir John Sangye, VC *Lucie Mannheim as Diana Cloam * Steven Geray as Martin Cloam * James Mason as Capt. Heverell *Leslie Perrins as Maj. Carson *Allan Je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keep Smiling (1938 Film)
''Keep Smiling'' is a 1938 British comedy film directed by Monty Banks and starring Gracie Fields, Roger Livesey and Mary Maguire. The film follows a group of performers who club together to buy a bus and travel around the country doing shows after they are cheated out of money by an ex-manager. Plot Cast * Gracie Fields as Gracie Gray * Roger Livesey as Bert Wattle * Mary Maguire as Avis Maguire * Peter Coke as Rene Sigani * Jack Donohue as Denis Wilson * Hay Petrie as Jack * Mike Johnson as Charlie * Eddie Gray as Silvo * Tommy Fields as The Three Bolas * Gladys Dehl as The Three Bolas * Nino Rossini as The Three Bolas * Edward Rigby as Silas Gray * Joe Mott as Bill Sneed * Philip Leaver as De Courcy * Gus McNaughton as Eddie Perkins * Paula Rae Wright (Paula Raymond age 14) as Bettina Bowman * Carol Adams as Dancer * Joss Ambler as Max * Monty Banks as Auditioner * Hal Gordon * Wilfrid Hyde-White as Assistant hotel clerk * Eliot Makeham as Printer * Julian Vedey a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cafe Colette
''Cafe Colette'' is a 1937 British thriller film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Paul Cavanagh, Greta Nissen in her final film role and Sally Gray. It was also released under the alternative title ''Danger in Paris''. The film was made at Wembley Studios.Wood p.89 Plot A diplomat falls in love with an exiled Russian princess. Cast * Paul Cavanagh as ''Ryan'' * Greta Nissen as ''Vanda Muroff'' * Sally Gray as ''Jill Manning'' * Bruce Seton as ''Roger Manning'' * Paul Blake as ''Ethelred Burke'' * Donald Calthrop as ''Nick'' * Dino Galvani as ''Josef'' * Fred Duprez as ''Burnes'' * Cecil Ramage as ''Petrov'' * C. Denier Warren Charles Denier Warren (29 July 1889 – 27 August 1971) was an Anglo-American actor who appeared extensively on stage and screen from the early 1930s to late 1960s, mostly in Great Britain. Life He was born in Chicago the son of Charles Warren ... as ''Compere'' References Bibliography * Chibnall, Steve. ''Quota Quickies: The birth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feather Your Nest
''Feather Your Nest'' is a 1937 British musical comedy film directed by William Beaudine and starring George Formby, Polly Ward and Enid Stamp-Taylor. Plot A worker at a gramophone record factory surprisingly creates a hit song, "Leaning on a Lamp-post". Cast * George Formby - Willie Piper * Polly Ward - Mary Taylor * Enid Stamp-Taylor - Daphne Randall * Val Rosing - Rex Randall * Davy Burnaby - Sir Martin * Jack Barty - Mr Chester * Clifford Heatherley - Randall's valet * Frederick Burtwell - Murgatroyd * Ethel Coleridge - Mrs Taylor * Jimmy Godden - Mr Higgins * Moore Marriott - Mr Jenkins * Syd Crossley - Police Constable * Frank Perfitt - Studio manager * Frederick Piper - Green * Mike Johnson as Charlie * Leonard Sharp as Mr. Peabody * Harry Terry as Furniture Thief * Hal Walters as Man Outside Furniture Shop * Edie Martin as Blanche Critical reception *''Halliwell's Film Guide'' observed "the star in less farcical vein than usual" *''TV Guide TV Guide is an Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
