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Brief Encounter is a 1945 British romantic drama film directed by David Lean from a screenplay by Noël Coward, based on his 1936 one-act play Still Life.The film stars Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard in lead roles, alongside Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey, Cyril Raymond, Everley Gregg and Margaret Barton in supporting roles.
Barton lives in Dorset, where she runs a tea room, and still receives many letters relating to Brief Encounter. [2] On 30 August 2018, aged 92, she married Rob Cave, aged 91, in Wimborne . Their combined age of 183 was believed to make them Britain's oldest newlyweds.
The two lead roles were cast with "wild disregard for suitability," according to Brian McFarlane, who has described the film as "a total disaster." [2] Originally intended to have a television screening in the United States followed by a cinema release in the rest of the world, its poor reception in New York led to the international plans being abandoned.
Dame Celia Elizabeth Johnson (18 December 1908 – 26 April 1982) was an English actress, whose career included stage, television and film. [1] She is especially known for her roles in the films In Which We Serve (1942), This Happy Breed (1944), Brief Encounter (1945) and The Captain's Paradise (1953).
Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith (29 September 1913 – 7 January 1988) [2] was an English stage and screen actor. After varied work in the theatre, he achieved leading man star status in the film Brief Encounter (1945), followed by The Third Man (1949), portraying what BFI Screenonline called “a new kind of male lead in British films: steady, middle-class, reassuring…. but also capable of ...
Gregg as Dolly Messiter in Brief Encounter, 1945. Everley Gregg (26 October 1903, in Bishopstoke, Hampshire – 9 June 1959, in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire) was an English actress. Early in her career, she became associated especially with plays of Noël Coward. She began making films in the 1930s and added television roles in her last decade ...
In a cold open parodying the James Bond films, Wood's character meets Roger Moore on the London Eye, where he hires her to assassinate Pierce Brosnan.The special's frame story then begins as Wood arrives at a community hall to begin rehearsals for the special, and is accosted by a BBC employee (Celia Imrie) and cameraperson filming a making-of special for "the new digital channel BBC Backstage".
Brief Encounters is a British comedy-drama series created by Oriane Messina and Fay Rusling.The series is loosely based on Gold Group International CEO Jacqueline Gold's 1995 memoir, Good Vibrations, [1] and details the beginning of the Ann Summers retailer company, through four women who see the potential of finding happiness and fulfillment by selling lingerie and sex toys to women in the ...