Bridget Boland (13 March 1913 – 19 January 1988) was a British screenwriter, playwright and novelist.

Life

Bridget Boland was born in London on 13 March 1913 to Irish politician John Pius Boland and Eileen Querin Boland ( Moloney). Boland was educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart,

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and at

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, where she studied

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, graduating B.A. in 1935. In 1937 she became a film writer. From 1941 to 1946 she served in the

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, producing plays for the troops to boost morale from 1943 to 1946. Ronald Hayman, 'Bridget Boland', in K. A. Berney, ed., ''Contemporary British Dramatists'', Gale, 1994, pp. 81-83 Boland reflected on her life and work in 1987:

Works

Selected filmography

* '' Laugh It Off'' (1940) * '' Gaslight'' (1940) * '' Freedom Radio'' (1941) * '' He Found a Star'' (1941) * '' This England'' (1941) * '' Prelude to Fame'' (1950) * '' The Fake'' (1953) * ''

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'' (1955) * ''

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'' (1956) * '' Anne of the Thousand Days'' (1969)

Plays

* ''The Arabian Nights'', produced 1948 * ''

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'', produced 1948; featured in ''Plays of the Year'' 1, 1949; filmed as '' The Lost People'' * ''The Damascus Blade'', produced 1950 * ''The Return'', produced 1952 as ''Journey to Earth'' and 1953 as ''The Return'' * ''The Prisoner'', produced 1954; featured in ''Plays of the Year'' 10, 1954 * ''Gordon'', produced 1961; featured in ''Plays of the Year'' 25, 1962 * ''The Zodiac in the Establishment'', produced 1963 * ''A Juan by Degrees'', produced 1965 (adaptation of a play by Pierre Humblot) * ''Time Out of Mind'', produced 1970

Novels

* ''The Wild Geese'', 1938 * ''Portrait of a Lady in Love'', 1942 * ''Caterina'', 1975

Other

* (with Maureen Boland) ''Old Wives' Lore for Gardeners'', 1976 * ''Gardener's Magic and Other Old Wives' Lore'', 1977 * ''At My Mother's Knee'', 1978 * (ed.) ''The Lisle Letters: An Abridgement'', 1983. Abridgement of the 6-volume edition edited by Muriel St. Clare Byrne

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* 1913 births 1988 deaths Writers from London British women novelists British women dramatists and playwrights 20th-century British women writers 20th-century British novelists 20th-century British dramatists and playwrights 20th-century British screenwriters Best Screenplay Golden Globe winners {{UK-novelist-stub