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Julia Squire
Julia Squire (1926–1989) was a British costume designer for film. Squire established a career within British period, comedy and melodrama cinema in the 1950s, costuming at least fifteen films within the decade. Born in Surrey, Julia went to St Michael's school, Petworth, then aged 18, she enrolled at Central School of Art, London. Her father was the author and editor J C Squire. Career Squire's first film costuming credit was as an assistant to Orry-Kelly on '' London Town'' (1946). In 1948, she assisted George K. Benda on ''Bonnie Prince Charlie'', starring David Niven. And the following year, Squire assisted costume designer Roger Furse on the Hitchcock film ''Under Capricorn'' (1949). For the whole decade of the 1950s, Squire was busy with a range of British films, working with renowned directors Powell and Pressburger, John Huston, and David Lean, in the "experimental" early days of Technicolor. In '' Gone to Earth'' (1950), Julia and her co-designer Ivy Baker created a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central School Of Art And Design
The Central School of Art and Design was a school of fine and applied arts in London, England. It offered foundation and degree level courses. It was established in 1896 by the London County Council as the Central School of Arts and Crafts. History The Central School of Arts and Crafts was established in 1896 by the London County Council. It grew directly from the Arts and Crafts movement of William Morris and John Ruskin. The first principal – from 1896 to 1900 as co-principal with George Frampton – was the architect William Richard Lethaby, from 1896 until 1912; a blue plaque in his memory was erected in 1957. He was succeeded in 1912 by Fred Burridge. The school was at first housed in Morley Hall, rented from the Regent Street Polytechnic. In 1908 it moved to purpose-built premises in Southampton Row, in the London Borough of Camden. In the same year the Royal Female School of Art, established in 1842, was merged into the school. The Central School of Arts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of cinema. In a career spanning six decades, he directed over 50 feature films, many of which are still widely watched and studied today. Known as the "Master of Suspense", Hitchcock became as well known as any of his actors thanks to his many interviews, List of cameo appearances by Alfred Hitchcock, his cameo appearances in most of his films, and his hosting and producing the television anthology ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' (1955–65). His films garnered 46 Academy Award nominations, including six wins, although he never won the award for Academy Award for Best Director, Best Director, despite five nominations. Hitchcock initially trained as a technical clerk and copywriter before entering the film industry in 1919 as a title card designer. His directorial debut was the British–German silent film ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Afrique
''Port Afrique'' is a 1956 British drama film directed by Rudolph Maté and starring Pier Angeli, Philip Carey and Dennis Price as Robert Blackton. It was written by John Cresswell based on the 1948 novel of the same name by Bernard Victor Dryer. Synopsis Set in July 1945, the film tells the story of a returning American pilot named Rip Reardon who lost his leg during the war and a young woman, Ynez, who is accused of the murder of Rip's wife. Cast * Pier Angeli as Ynez * Philip Carey as Rip Reardon * Dennis Price as Robert Blackton * Eugene Deckers a Colonel Moussac * James Hayter as Nino * Anthony Newley as Pedro * Richard Molinas as Captain * Christopher Lee as Franz Vermes * Guy De Monceau as police driver * Jacques Cey as waiter * Dorothy White as Berber girl * Denis Shaw as Grila * Marie Hanson as Georgette * Rachel Gurney as Diane Blackton * Guido Lorraine as Abdul * André Maranne as police officer * Lorenza Colville as Bouala * Maureen Connell as native m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doublecross (1956 Film)
''Doublecross'', also known as ''Queer Fish'', is a 1956 second feature British crime film directed by Anthony Squire and starring Donald Houston, Fay Compton and William Hartnell. The screenplay was by Squire and Kem Bennett based on his 1955 story "The Queer Fish". Plot The story takes place in a Cornish fishing town in the 1950s. Local fisherman assemble in a local pub, apparently to practise their bell-ringing. They are approached by two foreign men (and one woman) who are interested in making use of a boat and ask questions about going to the French coast. Albert Pascoe agrees to take them to France for £100, half paid in advance. They sail off on a moonlit night on a trip that will take until the next afternoon. Meanwhile, back in the village, Albert's smaller rowing boat is found with four large poached salmon in it. A friend hides them from the authorities. Police get involved when it is revealed that one of the foreign men is a murderer. Albert overhears the two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man Who Loved Redheads
''The Man Who Loved Redheads'' is a 1955 British comedy film directed by Harold French and starring Moira Shearer, John Justin and Roland Culver. The film is written by Terence Rattigan based on his play '' Who Is Sylvia?'' (1950) which is reputedly a thinly veiled account of the author's philandering father. The film follows the play fairly closely, its main difference being the turning of Sylvia into a redhead. The film contains a ballet sequence featuring extracts from '' The Sleeping Beauty'', which was decorated by Loudon Sainthill. Plot Young peer and junior member of the Foreign Office, Mark St. Neots, is obsessed with the memory of Sylvia, a 16-year-old redhead he met at a party as a boy, and vowed he would love forever. Now older and respectably married, Mark still retains his image of the beautiful young girl with the red hair, and spends the rest of his life searching for her through a string of casual affairs. Cast * Moira Shearer as Sylvia / Daphne / Olga / Colet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hobson's Choice (1954 Film)
''Hobson's Choice'' is a 1954 British romantic comedy film directed by David Lean. It is based on the 1916 play of the same name by Harold Brighouse. It stars Charles Laughton in the role of Victorian bootmaker Henry Hobson, John Mills as timid but highly talented employee Will Mossop, and Brenda de Banzie as Hobson's eldest, fiercely determined daughter. The film also features Prunella Scales in one of her first cinematic roles. ''Hobson's Choice'' won the British Academy Film Award for Best British Film 1954. Plot Henry Horatio Hobson is the autocratic proprietor of a moderately upmarket boot shop (boots, shoes and clogs) in 1880 Salford. A widower, Hobson is a notorious miser with three grown daughters: Maggie and her younger and less-dedicated sisters, Alice and Vicky. All three have kept house and worked in their father's shop for years without wages, and Alice and Vicky are eager to marry, and their intentions infect Maggie. Alice has been seeing Albert Prosser, a you ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Father Brown (film)
''Father Brown'' is a 1954 British mystery comedy film directed by Robert Hamer and starring Alec Guinness as the title character with Joan Greenwood, Peter Finch and Cecil Parker. Like the American film '' Father Brown, Detective'' (1934), it is based loosely on '' The Blue Cross'' (1910), the first Father Brown short story by G. K. Chesterton. It was shot at the Riverside Studios in London. The film's sets were designed by the art director John Hawkesworth. It was distributed by Columbia Pictures in both Britain and the United States where it was released as ''The Detective''. It was screened at the 1954 Venice Film Festival. Peter Finch's biographer, Elaine Dundy, argued this film was when Finch "came of age" as a movie actor. Plot The police raid a premises at night and find a priest at an open safe: he explains he is replacing the money for a parishioner. He is arrested and put in the cells but released when the bishop confirms who he is. Outside he meets the erring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Inspector Calls (1954 Film)
''An Inspector Calls'' is a 1954 British drama film directed by Guy Hamilton and starring Alastair Sim, Jane Wenham and Eileen Moore. It is based upon the 1945 play '' An Inspector Calls'' by J.B. Priestley and was adapted for the screen by Desmond Davis. It was shot at Shepperton Studios with sets designed by the art director Joseph Bato. Plot In 1912, the prosperous Birling family sit at a dining table at the end of a dinner party with their friend, Gerald Croft, who is engaged to the daughter, Sheila. Mother chastises Eric, the son, for drinking too much. Father discusses the likelihood of war and after the meal discusses his possible knighthood with Gerald over port and cigars. They are interrupted by a man calling himself Inspector Poole, investigating the suicide of a working-class girl, Eva Smith, whose death is linked to each family member. Eva has poisoned herself. She left a diary. Eva was one of Mr Birling's workers in his factory. In a flashback to 1910, Eva is se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Captain's Paradise
''The Captain's Paradise'' is a 1953 British comedy film produced and directed by Anthony Kimmins, and starring Alec Guinness, Yvonne De Carlo and Celia Johnson. Guinness plays the captain of a passenger ship that travels regularly between Gibraltar and Spanish Morocco. De Carlo plays his Moroccan wife and Johnson plays his British wife. The film begins at just before the end of the story, which is then told in a series of flashbacks. In 1958, the story was made into a Broadway musical comedy, retitled '' Oh, Captain!''. Plot In early 1950s North Africa, a man is escorted through an angry crowd by a platoon of soldiers. They enter a fort, and it is clear he is to be executed. The commander orders the soldiers to line up. He gives them orders to aim and fire. As the shots ring out, the scene shifts to a ferry ship, ''The Golden Fleece.'' Passengers embark for the two-day journey from Morocco to Gibraltar. Among them is an elderly gentleman, Lawrence St. James, who has come ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Heart Of The Matter (film)
''The Heart of the Matter'' is a 1953 British drama film based on the 1948 book of the same name by Graham Greene. It was directed by George More O'Ferrall for London Films. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival. Plot Scobie, Deputy Commissioner of the Sierra Leone Police in Freetown during the Second World War, is unhappily married to fellow-Catholic Louise: both mourn the death of their only daughter. Despite his having been a police officer in the country for 15 years, when the Police Commissioner announces he is to retire, Scobie is overlooked in favour of a younger man sent out from the UK. On a search of a neutral Portuguese ship, the ''Esperança'', he finds an envelope addressed to Germany. When he confiscates it, the captain begs him to do nothing because the letter is to his daughter. Feeling pity, Scobie burns it. His wife does not like the climate or the other expatriates and keeps begging him to let her go to South Africa by sea but they cannot afford ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women Of Twilight (film)
''Women of Twilight'' (also known as ''Twilight Women'') is a 1952 British film directed by Gordon Parry starring Freda Jackson, Rene Ray and Lois Maxwell The screenplay was by Anatole de Grunwald based on the 1951 play of the same title by Sylvia Rayman. It was the first British film to receive the recently introduced X certificate. Plot Helen Allistair is the sadistic proprietress of a grim boarding house providing accommodation for unmarried young mothers and pregnant women. One of these is Vivianne Bruce, carrying the child of nightlclub singer Jerry Nolan, about to be hanged for murder. Vivianne is befriended by fellow-lodger Christine, and while Christine is away, her child falls ill. Because Helen refuses to allow a doctor to called, the child dies. Vivianne confronts Helen, who is subsequently arrested. Christine marries and offers to adopt Vivianne's baby. Cast * Freda Jackson as Helen Allistair * Rene Ray as Vivianne Bruce * Lois Maxwell as Christine Ralston * L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moulin Rouge (1952 Film)
''Moulin Rouge'' is a 1952 British historical romantic drama film directed by John Huston from a screenplay he co-wrote with Anthony Veiller, based on the 1950 novel of the same name by Pierre La Mure, and produced by John and James Woolf. The film follows artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec as he navigates the bohemian subculture of 19th-century Paris, centered around the Moulin Rouge, a burlesque venue. It was screened at the 14th Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Lion. The film stars José Ferrer, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Suzanne Flon, Eric Pohlmann, Colette Marchand, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Katherine Kath, Theodore Bikel, and Muriel Smith. Plot In 1890 Paris, crowds gather at the Moulin Rouge as artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec finishes a bottle of cognac while sketching the dancers. Regular patrons arrive: singer Jane Avril teases Henri, dancers La Goulue and Aicha argue, and owner Maurice Joyant offers Henri free drinks for a promotional po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
