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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).
Muriel Box at work. At some point this present century, a British woman will direct her thirteenth fictional feature film. Until that day, the astonishing record of Muriel Box – who single-handedly directed a dozen such pictures from 1952 to 1964 – will stand intact.
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. 18 May 2021. Muriel Box on set The Rank Organisation, courtesy of the BFI National Archive.
Apr 3, 2023 · Muriel Box remains Britain’s most prolific female director and was also the first woman to win an Oscar for best original screenplay for The Seventh Veil (1945), shared with her husband Sydney Box, yet is little remembered today.
