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National Film Awards for British Stars

Date released

5 May 1947

Series name

Universal News

Issue no

1753

NoS ID

149307

Story no

3 / 4

Silver Stars awarded to Margaret Lockwood, James Mason and Herbert Wilcox at the Dorchester.

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Beggar’s Opera, The (1953 Video)

Director

Peter Brook

Producer

Laurence Olivier; Herbert Wilcox

Subject

Drama; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £15.99

Peter Brook’s 1953 film adaptation of the John Gay opera. Laurence Olivier plays MacHeath, a highwayman in Newgate prison, and his love for too many beautiful women.

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Carnival (1931 Film)

aka: Venetian Nights

Director

Herbert Wilcox

Feature film. A remake of the 1921 film also starring Matheson Lang (see separate entry). ‘This version boasts considerably better photography, but otherwise is very ponderous and plain. Nor did they go to...

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Film Fans Pick Britain’s Best

Date released

13 May 1948

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1795

NoS ID

041044

Story no

2 / 6

Daily Mail film awards are presented at Dorchester Hotel to John Mills, Margaret Lockwood, and Herbert Wilcox.

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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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