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Major Barbara is a 1941 British film starring Wendy Hiller and Rex Harrison. The film was produced and directed by Gabriel Pascal and edited by David Lean. It was adapted for the screen by Marjorie Deans and Anatole de Grunwald, based on the 1905 stage play Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw. It was both a critical and a financial success. [3]
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Major Barbara is a three-act English play by George Bernard Shaw, written and premiered in 1905 and first published in 1907. The story concerns an idealistic young woman, Barbara Undershaft, who is engaged in helping the poor as a Major in the Salvation Army in London. For many years, Barbara and her siblings have been estranged from their ...
Barbara Mullen, Michael Redgrave: Comedy: Kipps: Carol Reed: Michael Redgrave, Diana Wynyard: Comedy: Love on the Dole: John Baxter: Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans: Drama: Major Barbara: Gabriel Pascal: Wendy Hiller, Rex Harrison: Drama: Adaptation of the George Bernard Shaw play The Man at the Gate: Norman Walker: Wilfrid Lawson, Kathleen O ...
Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller (15 August 1912 – 14 May 2003) was an English film and stage actress who enjoyed a varied acting career that spanned nearly 60 years. Writer Joel Hirschorn, in his 1984 compilation Rating the Movie Stars, described her as "a no-nonsense actress who literally took command of the screen whenever she appeared on film".
Robert Adolph Wilton Morley (26 May 1908 – 3 June 1992) was an English actor who enjoyed a lengthy career in both Britain and the United States. He was frequently cast as a pompous English gentleman representing the Establishment, often in supporting roles. [1]
Donald Esme Clayton Calthrop (11 April 1888 – 15 July 1940) was an English stage and film actor. [1]Born in London, Calthrop was educated at St Paul's School and made his first stage appearance at eighteen years of age at the Comedy Theatre, London. [2]
It was made by RKO who cast Newton in the title role of Blackbeard the Pirate (1952). Fox asked him back for The Desert Rats (1953) opposite Richard Burton and James Mason, playing a drunken school teacher who discovers bravery during World War II. He was one of several names in an airplane disaster movie The High and the Mighty (1954).