When Hollywood Loved Britain: The Hollywood 'British' Film 1939-1945

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Manchester University Press, Aug 20, 1999 - History - 280 pages
When Hollywood Loved Britain examines the Hollywood "British" film--American feature films that were set in Britain, based on British history or literature and included the work of British producers, directors, writers and actors. "British" films include many of the most popular and memorable films of the 1930s and 1940s, yet they have received little individual attention from film historians and even less attention as a body of films. While the book is centered on wartime "British" films, it also investigates wider issues: the influence of censorship and propaganda agencies during Hollywood’s studio era, studio finances, the isolationist campaign in the United States between 1939 and 1941, and American perceptions of Britain at war.
 

Contents

Hollywoods foreign markets
7
Hollywoods foreign policy
38
The whiter and cliffier cliffs of MGM
67
David Copperfield MGM 1934 page
76
Mutiny on the Bounty MGM 1935
79
A Yank at Oxford MGM 1938
82
Random Harvest MGM 1942
91
Early British war films
98
Mrs Miniver MGM 1942
153
The Hollywood British at war
157
None but the Lonely Heart RKO 1944
163
Forever and a Day RKO 1943
173
Forever and a Day RKO 1943
174
Forever and a Day RKO 1943
177
British films and the Office of
181
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror Universal 1942
195

The Sea Hawk Warner Brothers 1940
103
That Hamilton Woman KordaUnited Artists 1941
109
Foreign Correspondent United Artists 1940
115
A Yank in the RAF Twentieth CenturyFox 1941
119
Eagle Squadron Universal 1942
120
by Universal Studios Inc
126
A new England
129
This Above All Twentieth CenturyFox 1942
139
Mrs Miniver MGM 1942
147
A Yank at Eton MGM 1942
200
The White Cliffs of Dover MGM 1944
205
National Velvet MGM 1945
208
Notes
211
Hollywoods British films 193050
238
Bibliography
267
Index
275
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Mark Glancy is Lecturer in History at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London.

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