Sir Michael Elias Balcon (19 May 1896 – 17 October 1977) was an English film producer known for his leadership of Ealing Studios in west London from 1938...
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1953 at the Théâtre de Babylone [de; fi; fr] in Paris. In 1957, Genet's The Balcony (Le Balcon) was produced in London at the Arts Theatre. That May, Harold...
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Daniel Day-Lewis (category Alumni of Bristol Old Vic Theatre School)
the poet Cecil Day-Lewis (1904–1972) and his second wife, actress Jill Balcon (1925–2009). His older sister, Tamasin Day-Lewis (born 1953), is a television...
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A View of Love (redirect from Un balcon sur la mer)
A View of Love (French: Un balcon sur la mer, lit. 'A balcony over the sea') is a 2010 French romantic mystery film written and directed by Nicole Garcia...
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The Balcony (redirect from El Balcon)
The Balcony (French: Le Balcon) is a play by the French dramatist Jean Genet. It is set in an unnamed city that is experiencing a revolutionary uprising...
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Ealing Studios (section Michael Balcon era)
Dean left in 1938 to be replaced by Michael Balcon from MGM, about 60 films had been made at the studios. Balcon discontinued the ATP name and began to issue...
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United Kingdom in his last years, and his second wife, British actress Jill Balcon. She is Jewish on her mother's side, a descendant of 19th-century immigrants...
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Mayette-Holtz, Studio-Théâtre de la Comédie-Française. 2004: Le Balcon ou à peu près (Jean Genet), by Jean-Michel Rabeux, Théâtre du Conservatoire. 2005:...
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Kind Hearts and Coronets (category Films produced by Michael Balcon)
eight people ahead of him in the line of succession to the title. Michael Balcon, the head of Ealing Studios and the producer of Kind Hearts and Coronets...
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Whisky Galore! (1949 film) (category Films produced by Michael Balcon)
schedule by five weeks, and the film went £20,000 over budget. Michael Balcon, the head of the studio, was unimpressed by the initial cut of the film...
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Yates, Alfonso Cuarón, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson to collect the Michael Balcon Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Cinema on behalf of the Harry...
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1 × 81.5 cm, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California Femme et enfant au balcon, 1871–72, watercolor, 20.6 × 17.3 cm, Art Institute of Chicago Intérieur...
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Lugné-Poe (category French theatre directors)
Lugné-Poe, was a French actor, theatre director, and scenic designer. He founded the landmark Paris theatre company, the Théâtre de l'Œuvre, which produced...
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2020-08-20. "Fondateur – Le Balcon". Le Balcon (in French). Retrieved 2020-08-20. "Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet". www.athenee-theatre.com. Retrieved 2020-08-20...
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Gainsborough was founded in 1924 by Michael Balcon and, from 1927, was a sister company to the Gaumont British, with Balcon as Director of Production for both...
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police. Holt called Nowhere to Go "the least Ealing film ever made." Michael Balcon, head of Ealing, later said the film "went wrong in treatment. A bit pretentious...
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Manager (uncredited) Hitchcock described the casting process thus: Michael Balcon, who had conceived the idea of "importing" American stars long before anybody...
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Sally Ann Howes (category English musical theatre actresses)
parents to stay together, led to Howes being put under contract by Michael Balcon of Ealing Studios, and this was followed by many other film roles as a child...
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Manvell, Laurence Olivier, Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell, Michael Balcon, and other major figures of the British film industry. In 1958, the Academy...
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and 1962. Saville produced his first film, Woman to Woman, with Michael Balcon in 1923, and on the back of its success produced pictures for the veteran...
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Samantha Hudson (section Theatre)
Queer Activism". Vogue. 31 January 2022. "Samantha Hudson se tiró de un balcón "borracha" y estuvo 7 días hospitalizada". Onda Vasca. 8 April 2022. Oliver...
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Sacha Pitoëff (category French theatre directors)
French theatre. Sacha graduated from Lycée Pasteur in Neuilly-sur-Seine, outside Paris. He studied acting and stage direction under Jouvet at the Théâtre de...
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Gerald du Maurier (category English theatre directors)
Great (1934) and, soon before his final illness, Weissensee in the Michael Balcon version of Jew Süss (1934). Du Maurier was a regular cigarette smoker, and...
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Laurent Stocker (section Theatre)
by William Shakespeare, directed by Jean-Louis Benoit, Théâtre de l'Aquarium 2001 : Le Balcon by Jean Genet, directed by Jean Boillt, Festival d'Avignon...
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a month-long trip to America with Gaumont-British Studios head Michael Balcon and one of his lead actors, Jack Hulbert, in 1934. She continued acting...
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François, Duke of Anjou (and Alençon) James Laurenson as Jean de Simier Jill Balcon as Lady Cobham, Lady-in-Waiting David Collings as Anthony Babington Bernard...
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Stanislas Nordey (category French theatre directors)
Essyad, written by Opéra national du Rhin, Festival Musica Théâtre du Châtelet 2002 : Le Balcon by Peter Eötvös after Jean Genet, created for Festival d'Aix-en-Provence...
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Tristram Cary (section Theatre and miscellaneous)
Prince and The Pauper (dir. Don Chaffey) (1962) Sammy Going South, Michael Balcon (1963) (Royal Command Film Performance 1963) The Silent Playground (1963)...
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singer-songwriter Jill Astbury, Australian researcher into violence against women Jill Balcon (1925–2009), British actress Jill S. Barnholtz-Sloan, American biostatistician...
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Cuarón, Mike Newell, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson collected the Michael Balcon Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema for the series. In...
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