Hobson's Choice is a 1954 British romantic comedy film directed by David Lean. It is based on the 1916 play of the same name by Harold Brighouse. It stars...
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Hobson's Choice is a play by Harold Brighouse, the title taken from the popular expression, Hobson's choice—meaning no choice at all (from Thomas Hobson...
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by Percy Nash Hobson's Choice (1931 film), directed by Thomas Bentley Hobson's Choice (1954 film), directed by David Lean Hobson's Choice, a 1962 television...
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The year 1954 in film involved some significant events and memorable ones. The top ten 1954 released films by box office gross in the United States are...
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film) Historia de una noche (1941) The History Boys (film) (2005) Hobson's Choice (1920 film) Hobson's Choice (1931 film) Hobson's Choice (1954 film)...
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Lean won the Golden Bear by the audience voting for his film Hobson's Choice. The following films were in competition for the Golden Bear award: The following...
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Brenda de Banzie (category English film actresses)
Salford, Lancashire. She appeared as Maggie Hobson in the David Lean film version of Hobson's Choice (1954) with John Mills and Charles Laughton, set in...
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Suddenly is a 1954 black and white American noir crime film directed by Lewis Allen with a screenplay written by Richard Sale. The drama stars Frank Sinatra...
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Petticoat (1953) The Man Between (1953) Hobson's Choice (1954) Aunt Clara (1954) The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954) Raising a Riot (1955) The Man Who Loved...
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(1940) Love on the Dole (1941) (*) The Man in the White Suit (1951) Hobson's Choice (1954) (*) Hell Is a City (1960) A Taste of Honey (1961) (*) A Kind of...
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Richard Wattis (category English male film actors)
Doctor in the House (1954) as Medical Book Salesman (uncredited) Hobson's Choice (1954) as Albert Prosser The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954) as Manton Bassett...
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Malcolm Arnold (category English film score composers)
film music, penning the scores to over a hundred features and documentaries, including titles such as The Bridge on the River Kwai, Hobson's Choice and...
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Willard Sage (category American male film actors)
played a lead role in the stage play Hobson's Choice. Sage played the role of the killer "Chester Davitt" in the 1954 film Dragnet. He then played the role...
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Wynyard Browne (section Plays and film scripts)
London stage. He also adapted the Harold Brighouse play Hobson's Choice for the screen in 1954. He died in Norwich, Norfolk on 19 February 1964. Sheldon's...
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Norman Spencer (producer) (category English film producers)
(1946), and later co-scripted and co-produced Lean's film of Harold Brighouse's play Hobson's Choice (1954). Lean's first casting suggestion for the lead role...
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Daphne Anderson (category English film actresses)
1938 at the Windmill Theatre. Anderson appeared in such films as The Beggar's Opera, Hobson's Choice and The Scarlet Pimpernel.[citation needed] Anderson...
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Joan Maude (category English film actresses)
Chamber of Horrors (1929) One Family (1930) - The Mother Hobson's Choice (1931) - Alice Hobson In a Monastery Garden (1932) - Roma Romano The Wandering...
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A list of films produced in the United Kingdom in 1954 (see 1954 in film): 1954 in British music 1954 in British television 1954 in the United Kingdom...
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Divided Heart Doctor in the House Executive Suite For Better, For Worse Hobson's Choice How to Marry a Millionaire Jigokumon The Maggie The Moon is Blue On...
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Edie Martin (category English film actresses)
End of the Road (1954) - Gloomy Gertie Hobson's Choice (1954) - Old Lady Buying Shoelaces (uncredited) Scotland Yard (film series) (1954, July) - ('The...
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(dir Lewis Gilbert) Hobson's Choice (1954) (dir David Lean) You Know What Sailors Are (1954) (dir Ken Annakin) The Sleeping Tiger (1954) (dir Joseph Losey)...
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Kathleen Harrison (category English film actresses)
minor role in Our Boys (1915), when she appeared in the film Hobson's Choice (1931). Another 50 films followed, including Gaslight (1940), In Which We Serve...
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Roy Rich (category British film directors)
Air (Adelphi Theatre, 1950) Thieves' Carnival (Arts Theatre, 1952) Hobson's Choice (Arts Theatre, 1952) As Long As They're Happy (King's Theatre, Glasgow...
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Best Foreign Film. The director of each film is indicated within the parentheses. Hobson's Choice (1954-David Lean) For Better, for Worse (1954-J. Lee Thompson)...
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(1954) Hobson's Choice (1954) Life with the Lyons (1954) Lilacs in the Spring (1954) The Love Lottery (1954) Mad About Men (1954) Make Me an Offer (1954) The...
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Malcolm Arnold The Belles of St Trinian's, starring Alistair Sim. Hobson's Choice directed by David Lean, starring Charles Laughton, Brenda De Banzie...
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Hell Below Zero (1954) - Capt. McPhee Front Page Story (1954) - Dan Hobson's Choice (1954) - Jim Heeler Devil Girl from Mars (1954) - Prof. Arnold Hennessey...
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She is best known for her film parts in The Spider and the Fly (1949), Alice in Wonderland (1946) and Hobson's Choice (1954), The Ladykillers (1955),...
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Prunella Scales (category English film actresses)
adaptation of Pride and Prejudice (1952), Laxdale Hall (1953), Hobson's Choice (1954), The Matchmaker on Broadway (1955), Room at the Top (1959) and...
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Wilfred Pickles (category English male film actors)
BBC Radio 4 in 1970. He also played the part of Horatio Hobson in the play "Hobson's Choice" on the BBC Saturday Night Theatre. In 1971, he was the subject...
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