Gainsborough Pictures was a British film studio based on the south bank of the Regent's Canal, in Poole Street, Hoxton in the former Metropolitan Borough...
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British production company Gainsborough Pictures and its parent company Gaumont British between 1924 and 1950. The Gainsborough brand was first used in 1924...
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firm run in the same location by Michael Balcon, later known as Gainsborough Pictures. Hitchcock worked on Woman to Woman (1923) with the director Graham...
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up Gainsborough in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Gainsborough or Gainsboro may refer to: Gainsborough, Ipswich, Suffolk, England Gainsborough Ward...
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Jean Kent (section Gainsborough Pictures)
London from which she was fired by Vivian Van Damm. Kent signed to Gainsborough Pictures during the Second World War. She had small roles in It's That Man...
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Jassy (film) (category Gainsborough Pictures films)
Lofts, originally published in 1944. Film rights were bought by Gainsborough Pictures who in 1946 saw Maurice Ostrer replaced as head of production by...
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The Gainsborough melodramas were a sequence of melodrama films produced by the British film studio Gainsborough Pictures between 1943 and 1947 that conformed...
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Phyllis Calvert (section Gainsborough Pictures)
spotted in a play Punch without Judy, and was signed to a contract by Gainsborough Pictures which gave her the lead in They Came by Night (1940), opposite Will...
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Will Hay (section Gainsborough Pictures)
figures with comic failings. His film Oh, Mr. Porter! (1937), made by Gainsborough Pictures, is often cited as the supreme British-produced film-comedy, and...
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Films, a group led by Sydney Box, who was soon to become head of Gainsborough Pictures. His early documentaries included London 1942 (1942), A Ride with...
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1922, Alfred Hitchcock obtained his first shot at directing for Gainsborough Pictures with the film Number 13 (or Mrs. Peabody) but due to financial difficulties...
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Arthur Crabtree (section Gainsborough Pictures)
(1935). He was a camera operator on First a Girl. Crabtree joined Gainsborough Pictures. He worked on The First Offence (1936) with John Mills; Pot Luck...
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guidance of young Alfred Hitchcock. Balcon had earlier co-founded Gainsborough Pictures with Victor Saville in 1923, later working with Gaumont British...
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Fanny by Gaslight (film) (category Gainsborough Pictures films)
British drama film, directed by Anthony Asquith and produced by Gainsborough Pictures, set in the 1870s and adapted from a 1940 novel by Michael Sadleir...
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The Lady Vanishes (category Gainsborough Pictures films)
to the old lady's disappearance. The Lady Vanishes was filmed at the Gainsborough Studios in Islington, London. Hitchcock caught Hollywood's attention...
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A Hazard of Hearts (category Gainsborough Pictures films)
A Hazard of Hearts is a 1987 made-for-television romantic drama film starring Helena Bonham Carter in one of her first major roles. It is based on a 1949...
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Harold Huth (section Gainsborough Pictures)
in the 1927 film One of the Best, directed by T. Hayes Hunter at Gainsborough Pictures. He got the role in part due to the connections of Pertwee. Huth...
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radio comedy series Band Waggon and subsequently starred in several Gainsborough Pictures comedy films during the Second World War including Charley's (Big-Hearted)...
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Hitchcock to direct the film when Graham Cutts, a jealous executive at Gainsborough Pictures, refused to let Hitchcock work on The Rat. The film was shot in...
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impressed Gainsborough Pictures, which put him under contract. According to Brian MacFarlane, Price was "mercilessly used by Gainsborough [Pictures] in one...
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films". Many Gainsborough Pictures films were made here from the early 1930s. Its sister studio was Islington Studios, also used by Gainsborough; films were...
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Daiei Films List of Nikkatsu Roman Porno films List of Toho films Gainsborough Pictures British and Dominions Film Corporation British Lion Films British...
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first starring film role was as the acid-tongued Rokeby in the Gainsborough Pictures period melodrama The Man in Grey (1943), a movie that helped to...
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London. It has been adapted several times, most notably in a 1944 Gainsborough Pictures film of the same name starring Phyllis Calvert, and a 1981 four-part...
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(2012) and Spectre (2015) were co-distributed with Sony Pictures Releasing through its Columbia Pictures label. With the revival of United Artists – formed...
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Audio-only City of Play July 15, 1929 Gainsborough Pictures Part-Talkie Extant The Wrecker July 17, 1929 Gainsborough Pictures Synchronized Score Extant Modern...
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between 1919 and 1949. The studios are closely associated with Gainsborough Pictures which was based there for most of the studios' history. During its...
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Productions Gainsborough Pictures Gate Studios General Film Distributors Halas and Batchelor Hemdale Film Corporation Hepworth Pictures Ideal Film Company...
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Rank Organisation bought Gaumont-British and its sister company Gainsborough Pictures. Rank also took control over rival cinema chain Odeon Cinemas the...
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Oh, Mr Porter! (category Gainsborough Pictures films)
Jardine as Secretary The movie was one of several comedies Hay made at Gainsborough under Ted Black. Despite the majority of the film being set in Northern...
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