Muriel Box director and screenwriter.

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Recently i watched a film Rattle of a Simple Man on Talking Pictures TV It was made in 1964 , really sensitively and well done and touched upon some heartbreaking topics. Rare for the time.

It starred Harry H Corbett and Diane Cilento and was directed by a woman.............Muriel Box. She sounds like she was an amazing woman and i aim to watch more of her films.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muriel_Box

www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/06/women-muriel-betty-box-rachel-cooke-film

"After her divorce, Muriel Box co-founded Femina, Britain's first feminist publishing house, and became a campaigner for women's rights, working with her friend, Edith Summerskill, the Labour politician, to reform Britain's divorce laws. In 1970 she married Gerald Gardiner, the Lord Chancellor. She died on 18 May 1991."