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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.
A devotee of British cinema, Johns said in 1946, "I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen," [121] She found her stardom in 1940s Britain (wherein her "glistening blue eyes and perfect comic timing made her British cinema's most sought-after female lead") and was already a star by the ...
Julian Chagrin (born 1940) John Challis (1942–2021) Geraldine Chaplin (born 1944) (born in Santa Monica, California, United States) Graham Chapman (1941–1989) Ian Charleson (1949–1990) Julie Christie (born 1940) (born in Chabua, India) Warren Clarke (1947–2014) Stephanie Cole (born 1941) David Collings (1940–2020) Lewis Collins (1946 ...
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) was a British and American actress. She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. She then became the world's highest-paid movie star in the 1960s, remaining a well-known public ...
Dame Celia Elizabeth Johnson (18 December 1908 – 26 April 1982) was an English actress, whose career included stage, television and film. [1] She is especially known for her roles in the films In Which We Serve (1942), This Happy Breed (1944), Brief Encounter (1945) and The Captain's Paradise (1953).
Margaret Mary Day Lockwood, CBE (15 September 1916 – 15 July 1990), [1] was a British actress. One of Britain's most popular film stars of the 1930s and 1940s, her film appearances included The Lady Vanishes (1938), Night Train to Munich (1940), The Man in Grey (1943), and The Wicked Lady (1945).
Thomas is the first British woman to win Best Picture. Thomas and Nolan are the first British husband-and-wife team, as well as the third married couple overall, to win Best Picture. [8] Shared with Charles Roven. James Wilson The Zone of Interest: Nominated 2024 Tessa Ross Juliette Howell Conclave: Pending Shared with Michael A. Jackman
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]