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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.
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.
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Dolly (Everley Gregg), Alec (Noël Coward) and Laura (Gertrude Lawrence) in the final sceneStill Life is a short play in five scenes by Noël Coward, one of ten plays that make up Tonight at 8.30, a cycle written to be performed across three evenings.
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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 ...
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 film Brief Encounter and the one-act play upon which it was based Still Life were both set in a station called Milford Junction. The railway station scenes in the film were actually shot in Carnforth railway station in Lancashire.