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I've had this article on my to-do list for ages. Here at last is a listing and some further information about all the plays Greenwood had performed and published, together with relevant images of editions, and in one case a performance by Thora Hird. Walter Greenwood’s Plays (1934 – 1971) – Walter Greenwood: Not Just… Continue reading New Article: Walter Greenwood’s Plays 1934-1971

I recently found this photograph in the Daily Herald Archive/Popperfoto/Getty Images Library. I don't think it is known to any historians, film critics or literary critics working on Greenwood, and I think may be the only photo showing writer, film director and two of the actors rehearsing a scene in the film on the set… Continue reading New Article: A Forgotten Love on the Dole Rehearsal Photograph by James ‘Jimmy’ Jarché (December 1940)

Like Greenwood, Formby came from a poor Lancashire background, and both of them became stars in their own spheres and ways. They also worked on two films together: No Limit (1935) and Much Too Shy (1942). I can find no evidence that they became in any way friends or worked closely together despite some things… Continue reading New Article: Walter Greenwood and George Formby

Wendy Hiller's performance in the play of Love on the Dole made her into a star, and there has been an article posted about that for some time. I can now add an article about how the film also made Deborah Kerr into a star, though perhaps not a wholly conventional one. See: Deborah Kerr,… Continue reading New Article: Deborah Kerr, Stardom and Love on the Dole

I was delighted recently to discover that the NPG had a portrait of Hiller in role, painted by the then very well-known portraitist Thomas Cantrell Dugdale. I think I can add a little bit more information to what the NPG currently knows about the painting (and as well as publishing this here, will send it… Continue reading New (short) Article: The National Portrait Gallery Painting of Wendy Hiller as Sally Hardcastle (1935)