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Violette Muriel Box, Baroness Gardiner, (22 September 1905 – 18 May 1991) was an English screenwriter and director, Britain's most prolific female director, having directed 12 feature films and one featurette.
Muriel Box was born on 22 September 1905 in New Malden, Surrey [now in Kingston upon Thames, London], England, UK. She was a writer and director, known for The Seventh Veil (1945), Mr. Lord Says No (1952) and A Novel Affair (1957).
Apr 12, 2023 · Throughout her life, Muriel Box foregrounded women’s stories, perhaps most successfully during her years in the British film industry. Working at a time of enormous social change in postwar Britain, Box played a key role, using her position in the film industry to further the cause of women’s liberation.
Muriel Box was born on 22 September 1905 in New Malden, Surrey [now in Kingston upon Thames, London], England, UK. She was a writer and director, known for The Seventh Veil (1945), Mr. Lord Says No (1952) and Both Sides of the Law (1953).
May 18, 2021 · Muriel Box: the government files on the work of Britain’s pioneering female director. Thirty years after the death of the UK’s most prolific female director, we look into two Muriel Box projects that attracted the attention of the state.
Sep 26, 2023 · Muriel Box was a prolific female filmmaker working in the 1940s, 50s and 60s, exploring feminist themes within her work which have been routinely overlooked.
Mar 29, 2017 · Talented as she may have been, and though she was able to build a decent-sized filmography, Muriel Box’s career illustrates an enormous problem that is all too common among early women filmmakers: Her films are nowhere near accessible.
