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Stars Get British Film Awards

Date released

28 May 1951

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

2112

NoS ID

043064

Story no

1 / 5

John Mills and Anna Neagle receive awards at Dorchester Hotel, being voted year’s best British film stars.

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Volunteer, The (1943 Film)

Director

Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger

Producer

Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger

Propaganda short feature film. Fred is an inept but willing dresser to a famous actor (Richardson), who makes himself up to play Othello. The news of the invasion of Poland comes in, and (in Othello costume)...

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Perth Pageant

Date released

30 Jun 1949

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1047A

NoS ID

015811

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Yellow Canary, The (1943 Film)

Director

Herbert Wilcox

Producer

Herbert Wilcox

Feature film. Anna Neagle is a supposed Nazi sympathiser who is really British to the core and helps foil a German plot to blow up a harbour in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The film opens with two British air-raid...

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Peg of Old Drury (1935 Film)

Director

Herbert Wilcox

Feature film based on the life of the eighteenth-century actress Peg Woffington. Born in Dublin, she came to London and became a famous actress under David Garrick’s guidance. She suffered from a weak...

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