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Profile of Muriel Box
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Muriel Box |
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22nd September 1905 |
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Tolworth, Surrey, England, UK |
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Muriel Box (1905-1991) was a British writer of books and films, as well as a producer and director. She was born Violette Muriel Baker in Tolworth, Surrey, England in 1905. She had success early in her film career, earning the 1946 Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay for The Seventh Veil. This award with awarded jointly with her first husband Sydney Box, whom she married in 1935. She had a notable and long-lasting career as one of the first successful women to produce, direct and write for film. Box divorced Sydney Box in 1969. In 1970, she married Gerald Gardiner, who had been Lord Chancellor until 1970.
Filmography
- Too Young to Love (1960)
- The Truth About Women (1958)
- A Passionate Stranger (1957)
- Street Corner (1953)
- The Happy Family (1952)
- Christopher Columbus (1949)
- The Blind Goddess (1948)
- Easy Money (1948)
- Here Come the Huggetts (1948)
- Portrait from Life (1948)
- Good Time Girl (1948)
- Holiday Camp (1948)
- Daybreak (1947)
- Dear Murderer (1947)
- When the Bough Breaks (1947)
- Brothers, The (1947)
- Man Within, The (1947)
- A Girl in a Million (1946)
- The Years Between (1946)
- The Seventh Veil (1946)
- 29 Acacia Avenue (1945)
- Alibi Inn (1935)
Autobiography
- Muriel Box Odd Woman Out: An Autobiography London: Leslie Frewen, 1974. ISBN 0856320900
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