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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 · She directed more films than any woman in Britain, then or now, yet the accomplishments of Muriel Box are still not widely recognised. Ahead of a new season of her work, BFI curator Josephine Botting celebrates a pioneer in telling women’s stories.
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 · 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.
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.
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.
