Kathleen Butler (screenwriter)
Kathleen Butler | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Screenwriter |
| Years active | 1934-1949 (film) |
Kathleen Butler was a British screenwriter who worked on the scripts of over 40 films. She also worked as assistant director on four films. Butler was part of a group of women given increasing control over the writing of scripts in British cinema of the time, writing The Temptress (1949) alone.[1] She worked for much of her career for the production company Butcher's Film Service.[2][3][4]
Selected filmography[edit]
Screenwriter[edit]
- The Right Age to Marry (1935)
- Old Faithful (1935)
- The Happy Family (1936)
- A Touch of the Moon (1936)
- The Heirloom Mystery (1936)
- Nothing Like Publicity (1936)
- A Wife or Two (1936)
- The Shadow of Mike Emerald (1936)
- Twice Branded (1936)
- Not So Dusty (1936)
- Strange Adventures of Mr. Smith (1937)
- Why Pick on Me? (1937)
- Busman's Holiday (1937)
- His Lordship Regrets (1938)
- Darts Are Trumps (1938)
- Weddings Are Wonderful (1938)
- Miracles Do Happen (1939)
- Garrison Follies (1940)
- Facing the Music (1941)
- Sheepdog of the Hills (1941)
- Front Line Kids (1942)
- Gert and Daisy's Weekend (1942)
- Gert and Daisy Clean Up (1942)
- Rose of Tralee (1942)
- Variety Jubilee (1943)
- I'll Walk Beside You (1943)
- My Ain Folk (1945)
- For You Alone (1945)
- Calling Paul Temple (1948)
- The Story of Shirley Yorke (1948)
- The Temptress (1949)
References[edit]
- ^ Harper p.177
- ^ "Kathleen ButlerBiography". fandango.com. Retrieved 6 March 2014.
- ^ "actor guides: bios & class information". theactorsguidetoeverything.com. Retrieved 6 March 2014.
- ^ Handelman, Jay. "Behind the Scenes: Considering the theater world without critics". arts.heraldtribune.com. Retrieved 6 March 2014.
Bibliography[edit]
- Harper, Sue. Women in British Cinema: Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2000.
External links[edit]
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