Kathleen Butler
| Kathleen Butler | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Screenwriter |
| Years active | 1934-1949 (film) |
Kathleen Butler was a British screenwriter who worked on the scripts of over forty 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
Screenwriter
- Old Faithful (1935)
- The Happy Family (1936)
- A Touch of the Moon (1936)
- The Heirloom Mystery (1936)
- Not So Dusty (1936)
- Busman's Holiday (1937)
- His Lordship Regrets (1938)
- 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
- ↑ 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
- Harper, Sue. Women in British Cinema: Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2000.