The Gaumont-British Picture Corporation produced and distributed films and operated a cinema chain in the United Kingdom. It was established as an offshoot...
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King Solomon's Mines (1937 film) (category British black-and-white films)
name by Henry Rider Haggard, the film was produced by the Gaumont British Picture Corporation at Lime Grove Studios in Shepherd's Bush. Sets were designed...
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Lime Grove Studios (category British film studios)
Shepherd's Bush, and when it first opened was described by Gaumont as "the finest studio in Great Britain and the first building ever put up in this country solely...
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financier and film producer Isidore Ostrer, was head of the Gaumont-British Picture Corporation. As a child, Mason appeared in the films Hero's Island (1962)...
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The Constant Nymph (1933 film) (category Use British English from June 2016)
Kennedy novel The Constant Nymph was sumptuously remade by Gaumont-British Picture Corporation in 1933. .A rich, Belgian gamine named Tessa Sanger falls...
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promote its make of camera-projector. Léon Gaumont's secretary Alice Guy-Blaché became the motion picture industry's first female director, and she went...
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I Was a Spy (category Use British English from May 2016)
intelligence to the British. The film was produced by Gaumont British Picture Corporation with Woolf & Freedman Film Service and Fox Film Corporation distributing...
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A Railway Tragedy (category 1900s British films)
A Railway Tragedy is a 1904 British silent crime film, produced by the Gaumont-British Picture Corporation. At the time of release, the film was described...
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Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC), originally British International Pictures (BIP), was a British film production, distribution and exhibition...
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Jewish industrialist and banker who became president of the Gaumont British Picture Corporation in the early 1920s. Pamela left school at age 9, and married...
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The Night Porter (1930 film) (category Use British English from March 2016)
British comedy film directed by Sewell Collins and starring Donald Calthrop, Trilby Clark and Gerald Rawlinson. The film was made by Gaumont British Picture...
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The Lady Vanishes (category Use British English from July 2012)
the first film to be made under an agreement between Gaumont-British and MGM, in which Gaumont provided MGM with some of their Gainsborough films for...
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distribution rights to The Rank Organisation film library Gaumont-British Picture Corporation PolyGram Filmed Entertainment film library (pre-April 1996)...
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Michael Powell filmography (category British filmographies)
Test Fox British The Night of the Party Gaumont-British Picture Corporation US title: The Murder Party The Phantom Light A Gainsborough Picture The Price...
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The 39 Steps (1935 film) (category Gaumont Film Company films)
ringleader lives. The 39 Steps was a major British film of its time. The production company, Gaumont-British, was eager to establish its films in international...
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The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film) (category British black-and-white films)
is a 1934 British spy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, featuring Leslie Banks and Peter Lorre, and released by Gaumont British. It was one...
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The Ghoul (1933 film) (category Use British English from June 2016)
subsequent play by King and Leonard J. Hines), The Ghoul was produced by Gaumont British and released in the UK in August 1933. Release in the US followed in...
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Bracelets (film) (category Use British English from May 2016)
The film was made as a second feature by the large British company Gaumont British Picture Corporation. It was made at the Lime Grove Studios in Shepherd's...
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"gaumont british". gaumont british. Archived from the original on 14 June 2008. "screenonline: Gaumont-British Picture Corporation Biography". British...
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The court noted that a similar contract had been upheld in Gaumont-British Picture Corporation v Alexander [1936] 2 All ER 1686. Having decided that the...
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R.A.F. (film) (category Gaumont Film Company films)
A.F. is a 1935 British documentary film covering the work of the Royal Air Force (RAF) made by the Gaumont-British Picture Corporation. Various scenes...
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Bush (brand) (category British brands)
horn loudspeakers as a subsidiary of the Gaumont British Picture Corporation. The brand name comes from Gaumont's Shepherd's Bush studios. The company expanded...
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C. M. Woolf (category British film producers)
Alfred Hitchcock's first films. In 1935 he resigned from the Gaumont British Picture Corporation and formed General Film Distributors. He brought J. Arthur...
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The Forbidden Territory (category 1933 British novels)
Alfred Hitchcock that was released in 1934 and distributed by Gaumont-British Picture Corporation. Its main actors were Gregory Ratoff, Ronald Squire, and...
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Mayflower Theatre (redirect from Gaumont, Southampton)
theatre was mainly used as a cinema and was taken over by The Gaumont-British Picture Corporation. As part of the Rank Organisation, the theatre has hosted...
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List of companies of the United Kingdom A–J (redirect from British company)
founded in 2009 by Terry Stone, Terry Byrne and Chris Howard. Gaumont British Picture Corporation — was a film company producing and distributing films, operating...
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The Rank Organisation (category Use British English from January 2015)
sites of Paramount Cinemas purchased. 1941 – Purchase of the Gaumont-British Picture Corporation, which also owned Gainsborough Pictures, 251 cinemas and...
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before being demolished in 1987. The Gaumont was designed by W. E. Trent, architect the Gaumont British Picture Corporation, with the assistance of his son...
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bars. In January 1933 it was sold to Gaumont-British Picture Corporation, which in 1940 was acquired by Rank. Gaumont installed a three-manual, 12-rank Compton...
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Vivien Leigh on stage and screen (category Use British English from November 2020)
British actress Vivien Leigh (1913–1967) was born in Darjeeling, India; her family returned to England when she was six years old. In addition to her...
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