Janet Green (1908–1993) was a British screenwriter, playwright, and activist best known for the scripts for the

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'', and for the play '' Murder Mistaken'' (made into the film ''

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''). She is also known for her use of filmmaking to deliberately fight against racism and homophobia, including challenging anti-homosexual British laws.

Biography

She was born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire on 4 July 1908. Originally an actress, on stage from 1931, she made appearances in the Aldwych Farces (1930–34) and was involved with entertainment for the armed forces in WW II. She gave up acting in 1945 to focus on writing.https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk › download › GB 1456 JGREEN Her second husband was the scriptwriter John McCormick, with whom she collaborated on several screenplays. They were both under contract to the

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from 1956 to 1959. Green wrote and collaborated with her husband on screenplays for three of the "social issue" films of producer

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and director

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'' (dealing with racial tension in 1950s London), ''

'' (the first mainstream examination of homosexuality) and ''

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'' (religious intolerance). They have been described as "three of the finest films in British cinema." Of ''Sapphire'', the ''

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'' wrote in 1959, "Perhaps the screenplay writer, one Janet Green, deserves her own special notice for a picture that is so special." She and her husband wrote

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's final film ''

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'' (1966). Green died in Beaconsfield on 30 May 1993.

Filmography

Theatre

References

External links

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Janet Green Collection
at the

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(link opens PDF). {{DEFAULTSORT:Green, Janet 1908 births 1993 deaths People from Hitchin English dramatists and playwrights English women dramatists and playwrights British women screenwriters Writers from Hertfordshire 20th-century British screenwriters 20th-century English women 20th-century English people