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Carve Her Name with Pride is a 1958 British war drama film based on the book of the same name by R. J. Minney. [1]The film, directed by Lewis Gilbert, is based on the true story of Special Operations Executive agent Violette Szabo, GC, who was captured and executed while serving in Nazi-occupied France.
Cast a Dark Shadow: Yes 1956 Reach for the Sky: Yes Yes 1957 The Admirable Crichton: Yes Yes 1958 Carve Her Name with Pride: Yes Yes A Cry from the Streets: Yes 1959 Ferry to Hong Kong: Yes Yes 1960 Light Up the Sky! Yes Yes Sink the Bismarck! Yes 1961 The Greengage Summer: Yes 1962 H.M.S. Defiant: Yes 1964 The 7th Dawn: Yes 1966 Alfie: Yes Yes
Dame Virginia Anne McKenna [1] (born 7 June 1931) is a British stage and screen actress, author, animal rights activist, and wildlife campaigner. She is best known for the films A Town Like Alice (1956), Carve Her Name with Pride (1958), Born Free (1966), and Ring of Bright Water (1969), as well as her work with the Born Free Foundation.
Carve Her Name with Pride at the British Film Institute; Carve Her Name with Pride at IMDb; Les Fernandez – Daily Telegraph obituary of the man who trained Violette Szabo; Violette Szabo Blue-plaque at English Heritage.org; Violette Szabo.site built in English and French by Geoffroi Crunelle
Actor Virginia McKenna, who had played Violette Szabo in Carve Her Name With Pride, released a record in 1974 where she recited the poem set to music. [2]Actor Michael Hordern recited the poem and told the story behind it during his 1980 appearance on the BBC Radio 4 series With Great Pleasure.
A teenage tourist was caught on video defacing the historic Colosseum in Rome which dates back to 72AD. Video shared by Italian tour guide David Battaglino shows a young girl appearing to carve ...
Pride & Prejudice closely follows Austen’s 1818 novel of the same name, where Elizabeth Bennet (Keira Knightley) faces her dear mother’s mounting pressures to marry her — and her four ...
Whitelaw made her film debut in The Sleeping Tiger (1954), followed by roles in Carve Her Name with Pride (1958) and Hell Is a City (1960). Whitelaw soon became a regular in British films of the 1950s and early 1960s. In her early film work, she specialised in blousy blondes and secretaries, but her dramatic range began to emerge by the late 1960s.