“Muriel Box: it was not until her mid-40s that she got to direct her first feature….
She was also the first woman to win an Oscar for best original screenplay. Now a new radio documentary aims to give her pioneering work a fresh appraisal…”
Commentary
We’ve been researching the British film industry and how people from s0-called minority backgrounds may have been able to establish careers within it as background to the ongoing research and writing we’ve been doing on the late, great Australian cinematographer Robert Krasker.
We were overjoyed to come across this article in The Observer newspaper, published on The Guardian website this weekend, about another almost completely forgotten talent, the screenwriter and director Muriel Box.
We’re looking forward to the radio documentary on Muriel Box by Carol Morley to be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 this coming Sunday 26th February 2023 and to learning more about Muriel Box and her achievements.
Links
- B&H Affiliate Link – click here to research and purchase or pre-order your choice of cameras, lenses and accessories for stills photography and video production whatever your genre and subject matter.
- BFI – Muriel Box: the government files on the work of Britain’s pioneering female director
- BFI – The delights of Muriel Box
- BFI ScreenOnline – Box, Muriel (1905-1991)
- Cannon and Morley Productions – website
- Carol Morley – Twitter
- Google Books – Women in British Cinema: Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know
- Muriel Box – IMDb
- Muriel Box – Wikipedia
- The British Entertainment History Project – Muriel Box (Gardiner) (nee Baker)
- The Guardian – Muriel Box: Britain’s most prolific female director you’ve never heard of
- The Guardian – Power women of the 1950s: Muriel and Betty Box
- The Guardian – Who was Muriel Box, Britain’s most prolific female film director?
- The Motion Pictures – Early Women Filmmakers: The Career of Muriel Box
- Turner Classic Movies – Muriel Box
- Virago – Her Brilliant Career
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