Sydney Box

MB was still working as a continuity girl (responsible for keeping tracks of props and details of sets and shooting) when she wrote this play. It was apparently first professionally staged (as opposed to productions...

Muriel and Sydney Box issued a second collection of one-act plays for female performers, entitled Petticoat Plays, in 1935. After this volume Muriel recommended Sydney as writer for a documentary film, and his growing...

Muriel and Sydney Box , her lover and future husband, together published a volume entitled Ladies Only: Six One-act Plays with All-women Casts.

In the same year that she collaborated with her soon-to-be husband on Petticoat Plays, MB 's first independent play, Angels of War, appeared in Five New Full-Length Plays for All Women Casts, edited by John Bourne .

Some of MB 's scriptwriting left almost no trace on the subsequent record of works produced communally. For instance, The Astonished Heart, released in 1950, is listed as a British film starring Noël Coward

Similarly, So Long at the Fair, 1950, had a draft script by MB , a second draft made from hers by Sydney Box , and further work from both of us. The updated...

Now head of script development at Gainsborough Studios (working for J. Arthur Rank , with her husband as managing director), MB produced scripts for Holiday Camp and Jassy (the latter from a novel by Norah Lofts

For the same company she also co-wrote with SydneyStreet Corner, released in April 1953, a film about policewomen. She directed it herself. While working on Street Corner she found herself—as a woman...

MB 's script for The Happy Family was directed by herself for her husband 's new company, London Independent Producers ; it had already opened in the USA as Mr Lord Says No!

MB 's motive was unabashed feminism. Unable to chain myself to the railings, I could at least rattle the film chains! Nonetheless, the script was by both her and her husband , adapted from a...

Rattle of a Simple Man was the last film scripted by MB and made by a Sydney Box company.

Muriel and Sydney Box , calling themselves Evelyn August, issued a ragbag volume of stories, jokes, and pictures, The Black-out Book, being one-hundred-and-one black-out nights' entertainment.

MB and Sydney Box published what Muriel later listed as her first novel, Forbidden Cargo: The Story of the Film.

She had in fact written it herself but based it on a script by her husband Sydney . The publisher wanted it to bear both their names since they thought boy readers would be put...

The full title of this collection is The Shelter Book. A Gathering of Tales, Poems, Essays, Notes and Notions. Arranged by Clemence Dane, for use in shelters, tubes, basements and cellars in war-time.Muriel