Silver Sirens - The Golden Age Of British Film And Theatre
About Silver Sirens - The Golden Age Of British Film And Theatre
British 1940s stage and screen buff. Owner of Silver Sirens — The Golden Age of British Film and Theatre, celebrating the finest years from 1930 to 1959.
Silver Sirens - The Golden Age Of British Film And Theatre Description
British cinema during the 1940s enjoyed a golden age as wartime film-makers found a new freedom to reflect the national mood, producing works of unparalleled ambition and boldness. Audiences turned to Ealing comedy films, escapist melodrama - often from Gainsborough Pictures - and World War II propaganda.
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Margaret Lockwood English Heritage blue plaque to be unveiled on 21st November at the actress’s 1930s Upper Norwood home. Screening of The Lady Vanishes (1938) follows. Everyman Cinemas English Heritage https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/english-he ritage-margaret-lo… …
‘The Price of Fame’, a new Dennis Price biography has just been published. The author, Elaine Parker, will be interviewed at the Under Ground Theatre tomorrow, Saturday 12th May, at 2pm. A screening of The Naked Truth (1957) follows.
Three new Margaret Lockwood DVDs to be released: Bedelia (1946), out tomorrow, followed by I’ll Be Your Sweetheart (1945) and Justice – The Complete Series (1971-1974). Screenbound Entertainment, Strawberry Media and Network Distributing.
January 2018 at the BFI Southbank sees pictures featuring James Mason, Dennis Price, Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, Richard Attenborough and more.
Peggy Cummins, Welsh-born actress, has died aged 92. She was the star of the 1950 film noir classic, Gun Crazy, as well as cult horror, Night of the Demon (1957).
Vivien Leigh’s former Wiltshire home put up for sale. Humberts estate agents are overseeing the sale by Vivien Leigh’s grandchildren of her former home in Wiltshire. Here's how Country Life Magazine reports the sale.
Love Story, Rebecca, Jamaica Inn and more feature in this brief history of Cornwall on the big and small screen. I'm pleased to have contributed.
Drama tonight on BBC Radio 3 about the making of the 1961 Dirk Bogarde film, Victim. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08xcqwp< br>
Margaret Rutherford, Will Hay, Virginia McKenna and Tommy Trinder added to the site. See https://www.silversirens.co.uk/actors-act resses/ for more details.
A two-year wait, but well worth it!
Just the lovely, sunny sort of weekend to laze around the pool at your ranch in Santa Monica, CA. Jean Simmons and Stewart Granger are doing just that!
Opening credits pictures from four decades added to the site: The Red Shoes (1948), North West Frontier (1959), Von Ryan’s Express (1965) and Ten Little Indians (1974). All in HD.
Much missed. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-a rts-38835961