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This Was a Woman is a 1948 British crime film directed by Tim Whelan and starring Sonia Dresdel, Walter Fitzgerald and Emrys Jones. It was made at the Riverside Studios with sets designed by the art directors Ivan King and Andrew Mazzei.
This Was a Woman: Directed by Tim Whelan. With Sonia Dresdel, Barbara White, Walter Fitzgerald, Cyril Raymond. A wife whose goal is power begins a game of manipulation that insidiously destroys her family.
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- Crime, Drama
- Tim Whelan
- 1948-11-29
A wife whose goal is power begins a game of manipulation that insidiously destroys her family. Sylvia Russell is power-mad and has some set goals.
Sonia Dresdel, Walter Fitzgerald, Emrys Jones, Barbara White, Scott Forbes, Celia Lipton, Marjorie Rhodes. “ I would have enjoyed power,” says Sylvia Russell (Sonia Dresdel), the manipulative matriarch who succeeds in destroying her household in Tim Whelan’s This Was a Woman.
Sonia Dresdel goes Joan Crawford in Queen Bee one better in This Was A Woman, a British film from 1948. Dresdel was considered one of Britain’s finest actresses, and there was widespread disappointment that she never played Lady Macbeth.
- Tim Whelan
Jan 4, 2024 · This Was a Woman (1948) by. Excelsior. Publication date. 1948-06-21. Usage. Public Domain Mark 1.0. Topics. Crime, Drama. Language. English. A wife whose goal is power begins a game of manipulation that insidiously destroys her family. Addeddate. 2024-01-04 18:26:34. Identifier. this-was-a-woman-1948. Scanner. Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.7.0.
Director. Val Valentine. Screenplay. The woman here is Sylvia Russell, who is a bit power mad and has some set goals. In order to achieve those goals she is sadistically devoted to her son and daughter, able to possess and direct them.
