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During the mid-1940s, with many of the men fighting in the Second World War, and many of the children evacuated to rural areas, women attained more financial responsibility and independence by having to work, and Gainsborough Pictures took advantage of this by providing films with powerful images of female independence and rebellion that resonated deeply with audiences.
Film director Dorothy Arzner was one of the top directors of 1920s–1940s Hollywood. Dorothy Arzner was the one of the very few women in executive positions to be successful from 1920s until 1940s Hollywood. From 1927 until 1943, Arzner was the only woman director working in Hollywood. [14]
Title Director Cast Genre Notes 1940: 21 Days: Basil Dean: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Leslie Banks: Drama: Filmed in 1937 All at Sea: Herbert Smith: Sandy Powell, Kay Walsh, John Warwick
Madonna of the Seven Moons is a 1945 British drama film starring Phyllis Calvert, Stewart Granger and Patricia Roc.Directed by Arthur Crabtree for Gainsborough Pictures, the film was produced by Rubeigh James Minney, [5] with cinematography from Jack Cox and screenplay by Roland Pertwee.
This is a list of drama films of the 1940s. 1940. Brigham Young; The Grapes of Wrath; The Great Dictator ... Utamaro and His Five Women; 1947. The Bishop's Wife ...
Women Directors and Their Films. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers. ISBN 978-0275985783. Mahar, Karen Ward (2006). Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood (1st ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0801884365. Malone, Alicia (2018). The Female Gaze: Essential Movies Made by Women. Coral Gables, Florida: Mango Publishing. ISBN 978 ...
The woman's films that were produced in the 1930s during the Great Depression have a strong thematic focus on class issues and questions of economic survival whereas the 1940s woman's film places its protagonists in a middle- or upper-middle-class world and is more concerned with the characters' emotional, sexual, and psychological experiences.
Pages in category "1940s in British cinema" ... This list may not reflect recent changes. B. List of British films of 1940; List of British films of 1941;