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The Upturned Glass
''The Upturned Glass'' is a 1947 British film noir psychological thriller directed by Lawrence Huntington and starring James Mason, Rosamund John and Pamela Kellino. The screenplay concerns a leading brain surgeon who murders a woman he believes to be responsible for the death of the woman he loved. It was made at Gainsborough Pictures' Islington Studios, with sets designed by the art director Andrew Mazzei. It was made as an independent production overseen by Sydney Box, then head of Gainsborough. Plot Michael Joyce, a Harley Street brain specialist, unhappily married and separated from his wife, falls in love with Emma Wright when she brings her young daughter Ann for consultation. Unfortunately, neither is free to marry, so the affair ends almost as soon as it begins. Later, however, Emma dies after a fall from her country manor's second-storey bedroom window. Upon hearing of the tragedy, Michael attends the coroner's inquest, where Ann and Emma's sister-in-law, Kate Howa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Huntington
Lawrence Huntington (9 March 1900 – 1968) was a UK, British film director, screenwriter and film producer, producer. Huntington was born in London on 9 March 1900, he directed more than thirty films following his debut feature ''After Many Years'' (1930). He later worked in television before his death in 1968. His work on TV included directing ''Douglas Fairbanks Presents''. Partial filmography * ''After Many Years (1930 film), After Many Years'' (1930) * ''Romance in Rhythm'' (1934) * ''Cafe Mascot'' (1936) * ''The Bank Messenger Mystery'' (1936) * ''Two on a Doorstep'' (1936) * ''Strange Cargo (1936 film), Strange Cargo'' (1936) * ''Full Speed Ahead (1936 film), Full Speed Ahead'' (1936) * ''Passenger to London'' (1937) * ''Twin Faces'' (1937) * ''Dial 999 (1938 film), Dial 999'' (1938) * ''I Killed the Count (film), I Killed the Count'' (1939) * ''This Man Is Dangerous (1941 film), This Man Is Dangerous'' (1941) * ''Tower of Terror (1941 film), Tower of Terror'' (1941) * ''S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Director
Art director is a title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, live-action and animated film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and unify the vision of an artistic production. In particular, they are in charge of its overall visual appearance and how it communicates visually, stimulates moods, contrasts features, and psychologically appeals to a target audience. The art director makes decisions about visual elements, what artistic style(s) to use, and when to use motion. One of the biggest challenges art directors face is translating desired moods, messages, concepts, and underdeveloped ideas into imagery. In the brainstorming process, art directors, colleagues and clients explore ways the finished piece or scene could look. At times, the art director is responsible for solidifying the vision of the collective imagination while resolving conflicting agendas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Seventh Veil
''The Seventh Veil'' is a 1945 British melodrama film directed by Compton Bennett and starring James Mason and Ann Todd. It was made by Ortus Films (a company established by producer Sydney Box) and released through General Film Distributors in the UK and Universal Pictures in the United States. The screenplay concerns Francesca (Todd), a brilliant concert pianist who attempts suicide while she is being treated for a disabling delusional disorder centred on her hands that makes it impossible for her to play. A psychiatrist uses hypnosis to uncover the source of her crippling fear and to reveal, one by one, the relationships that have enriched and troubled her life. When the last "veil" is removed, her mind is clear. She regains the ability to play and knows whom she loves best. The film's title comes from the metaphor, attributed to the fictional psychiatrist, that while Salome removed all her veils willingly, human beings fiercely protect the seventh and last veil that hides ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
They Were Sisters
''They Were Sisters'' is a 1945 British melodrama film directed by Arthur Crabtree for Gainsborough Pictures and starring Phyllis Calvert and James Mason. The film was produced by Harold Huth, with cinematography from Jack Cox and screenplay by Roland Pertwee. ''They Were Sisters'' is noted for its frank, unsparing depiction of marital abuse at a time when the subject was rarely discussed openly. It was one of the Gainsborough melodramas. Plot The film focuses on the lives of three sisters: Lucy, Vera and Charlotte. It opens at a dance in 1919, establishing their personalities and following them through courtship and marriage. While the sisters remain close to one another, their characters and paths through life are very different. Lucy is the most stable, sensible, practical and in a happy marriage, whose greatest sadness is her inability to have children, which she sublimates by lavishing affection on her nephews and nieces. Vera is married with a child but the relatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beatrice Varley
Beatrice Evelyn Varley (11 July 1896 – 4 July 1964) was an English actress who appeared in television and film roles between 1936 and 1964. She made her screen debut in the 1936 film ''Tomorrow We Live'' and began to portray a variety of character roles in films such as '' Oh, Mr Porter!'', ''Holiday Camp'' and '' The Wicked Lady'' before moving predominantly into television until she died in 1964. Selected filmography * '' Tomorrow We Live'' (1936) - Patricia's Mother (uncredited) * '' Spring Handicap'' (1937) - Mrs. Tulip * '' Oh, Mr Porter!'' (1937) - Barney's Bar Landlady (uncredited) * '' Young and Innocent'' (1937) - Accused Man's Wife in First Court Case (uncredited) * '' Crackerjack'' (1938) - Bit Role (uncredited) * '' Poison Pen'' (1939) - Mrs. Jenkins * ''Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday'' (1939) - Mrs. Mooney (uncredited) * '' Kipps'' (1941) - Mrs. Kipps * ''Rush Hour'' (1941, Short) - Shopper (uncredited) * '' South American George'' (1941) - Mrs. Butters * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Withers
Margaret Withers (6 July 1893 – 26 October 1977) was a British actress mainly on the stage. Filmography References External links * Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown British stage actresses British film actresses 20th-century British actresses 1893 births {{UK-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Denham
William Maurice Denham (23 December 1909 – 24 July 2002) was an English actor who appeared in over 100 films and television programmes in his long career. Early life Denham was born on 23 December 1909 in Beckenham, Kent, the son of Eleanor Winifred (née Lillico) and Norman Denham. He was the third child of four. He was educated at Tonbridge School and trained as a lift engineer. Like fellow actor James Robertson Justice, he played amateur rugby for Beckenham RFC. Career Denham became an actor in 1934, and appeared in live television broadcasts as early as 1938, continuing to perform in that medium until 1997. Denham initially made his name in radio comedy series such as ''It's That Man Again'' (''ITMA'') and ''Much Binding in the Marsh'', which established him as a familiar radio character (providing over sixty different voices, female as well as male, according to a radio interview in November 1988), and later provided all the voices for the animated version of ''Animal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Cotes
Peter Cotes (19 March 1912 – 10 November 1998) was an English director, producer, actor, writer and production manager. Cotes was born as Sydney Boulting in Maidenhead, Berkshire. His brothers John and Roy Boulting became noted film makers. He began as an actor, before concentrating on theatre production. He was the original director of the world's longest-running production '' The Mousetrap'', still playing at the St Martins Theatre, London. He wrote several books, including an acclaimed biography of Charlie Chaplin in 1951. Cotes travelled to Australia in 1961 to direct some television plays. He was fired during the filming of ''Bitter Harvest''. He was twice married: Myfanwy Jones (marriage annulled) and Joan Miller (widowed 1988). He died from natural causes in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire Oxfordshire ( ; abbreviated ''Oxon'') is a ceremonial county in South East England. The county is bordered by Northamptonshire and Warwickshire to the north, Buckinghamshire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Shaw
Susan Shaw (29 August 192927 November 1978; born Patricia Gwendoline Sloots) was an English actress. Early life Shaw was born Patricia Gwendoline Sloots on 29 August 1929 in West Norwood, London, to Edward John Sloots and Lillian Rose Lewis. She'd wanted to become a dress designer but was working as a typist at the Ministry of Information when she did a screen test for the J. Arthur Rank Organisation. She was signed to a term contract and trained at the organisation's 'charm school'. Career Shaw had a small part in the musical '' London Town'' (1946) and a larger one in another musical, '' Walking on Air'' (1946). She also had small roles in '' The Upturned Glass'' (1947) and '' Jassy'' (1947), and was then in ''Holiday Camp'' (1947), which introduced the Huggett family, although at this stage she wasn't a family member. Her most noticeable role to date came in '' It Always Rains on Sunday'' (1947) for Ealing Studios, after which she had another support part in '' My Brother ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Hylton
Jane Hylton (born Audrey Gwendolene Clark; 16 July 1926 – 28 February 1979) was an English actress who accumulated 30 film credits, mostly in the 1940s and 1950s, before moving into television work in the latter half of her career in the 1960s and 1970s. Early life and education Jane Hylton was born as Audrey Gwendolene Clark on 16 July 1926 in Deptford, London. Career Talent-spotted in her teens, Hylton was a product of the Rank Organisation's Company of Youth (more commonly referred to as the Rank Charm School), which took promising young actors and groomed them for a career in film. The programme turned out some genuine stars such as Dirk Bogarde and Diana Dors, but most alumni only had modest film careers, regularly employed in British films but rarely if ever receiving star-billing. Female graduates of the programme were often referred to somewhat disparagingly as "Rank Starlets", with the implication that their purpose was merely to appear on screen and look glamorous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brefni O'Rorke
Brefni O'Rorke (26 June 1889 – 11 November 1946) was an Irish actor, both on the stage and in movies. Early life O'Rorke was born as William Francis Breffni O'Rorke at 2 Esplande Villas in Dollymount, Clontarf, Dublin on 26 June 1889, and baptised at Clontarf Parish Church on 1 August 1889. His father, Frederick O'Rorke, was a cork merchant, and his mother, Jane Caroline O'Rorke, née Morgan, was an actress. He had an older brother, Frederick, who was twelve years older than him. Career O'Rorke began studying acting with his mother and made his professional début in 1912 at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin in a production of Shaw's '' John Bull's Other Island''. While still living in Dublin, he met and married in 1916 Alice Cole, a chorus-girl turned actress, who had divorced her first husband and immigrated from South Africa with her young son. Thus O'Rorke became the stepfather of Cyril Cusack. Other theatre roles included the title role in '' Finn Varra Maa'' (1917), a musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morland Graham
Morland Graham (8 August 1891 – 8 April 1949) was a British film actor. Graham had a career on the stage spanning over 35 years. He was known as a character actor, but also wrote a one act comedy, ''C'est la Guerre'', which was first performed in October 1926 and subsequently at the following year's Scottish Community Drama Festival. Graham became best known for his film roles in ''Jamaica Inn (film), Jamaica Inn'' (1939), ''Old Bill and Son'' (1941) and ''Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948 film), Bonnie Prince Charlie'' (1948), in which he starred after deputising for actor Will Fyffe. He appeared as the Biffer in ''Whisky Galore! (1949 film), Whisky Galore!'' which was released after his death. Graham married Elsie Cole (née Press) in 1926. He died on 8 April 1949 after taking an overdose of aspirin while suffering from ill health and, according to his wife, "nervous depression". He had recently turned down an offer of stage work from Alistair Sim because he "did not feel up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
