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Elsa Chauvel is a Actor, Scriptwriter and Assistant Director Australienne born on 10 february 1898
Elsa Chauvel, OBE (née Elsie May Wilcox; 10 February 1898 – 22 August 1983) was an Australian filmmaker and actress, and the wife and collaborator of film director Charles Chauvel.
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Elsa Chauvel
Birth name Elsie May Wilcox
Nationality Australie
Birth 10 february 1898
Death 22 august 1983 (at 85 years) at Toowoomba (Australie)
Awards Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
Nationality Australie
Birth 10 february 1898
Death 22 august 1983 (at 85 years) at Toowoomba (Australie)
Awards Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
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Filmography of Elsa Chauvel (8 films)
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In the Wake of the Bounty (1933)
, 1h6Directed by Charles Chauvel
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Documentary, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Errol Flynn, Charles Chauvel, Elsa Chauvel
Roles Herself
Rating47%
Chauvel's film uses introductory enacted scenes showing the mutiny, followed by documentary footage, anthropological style, of the mutineers' descendants on Pitcairn Island. Chauvel also used footage of Polynesian women dancers; and film of an underwater shipwreck, filmed with a glass bottomed boat, which he believed was the Bounty but was probably not. This was Chauvel's first 'talkie' and he had clearly at this stage not yet learned to direct actors: the dialogue is very stiff and amateurish. The use of long sections of documentary footage with a voice over, combined with acted scenes, is similar to the hybrid silent and talking pictures that were produced during the transition to sound. It also represents the combination of interests of the director, and he returned to documentary toward the end of his career with the BBC television series Walkabout. Despite the poorly written dialogue, the documentary sections retain their excellence. A return to enactments at the end of the film, with one scripted modern scene in which a child suffers because of the lack of regular ship visits which could have taken the child to hospital, probably sought to make the film a useful voice for the Pitcairn Island community, who had been generous with their participation.
Greenhide (1926)
Directed by Charles Chauvel
Actors Elsa Chauvel, Bruce Gordon
Roles Margery Paton
Rating57%
High society girl Marjory Paton (Elsa Chauvel) leaves the city to live on her father's cattle property, run by "Greenhide Gavin" (Bruce Gordon). She carries romantic notions of the bush, of "being swung to the saddle by big brown arms", but Greenhide Gavin is initially only annoyed by her presence. Greenhide contains a blossoming romance, and the thwarting of a plot to steal cattle.
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Jedda (1955)
, 1h41Directed by Charles Chauvel
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Robert Tudawali
Roles Writer
Rating60%
Jedda is an Aboriginal girl born on a cattle station in the Northern Territory of Australia. After her mother dies giving birth to her, the child is brought to Sarah McMann, the wife of the station boss. Sarah has recently lost her own newborn to illness. She at first intends to give the baby to one of the Aboriginal women who work on the station, but then raises Jedda as her own, teaching her European ways and separating her from other Aborigines.
Sons of Matthew (1949)
, 1h47Directed by Charles Chauvel
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Actors Michael Pate, John Ewart, Dorothy Alison
Rating67%
Irishman Matthew O'Riordan and his English wife Jane raise a family of five sons and two daughters on their farm in the valley of Cullenbenbong in northern New South Wales. They battle drought, flood and fire. The wife of neighbour Angus McAllister dies and they help raise their daughter Cathy.
The Rats of Tobruk (1944)
, 1h8Directed by Charles Chauvel
Genres War, Action
Themes Films set in Africa, Seafaring films, Transport films, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II, Le désert, Guerre du désert
Actors Peter Finch, Chips Rafferty
Roles Writer
Rating54%
Three friends are droving cattle in Australia in 1939: the restless Bluey Donkin, easy-going Milo Trent and English Peter Linton, who is in the country on a working holiday. Squatter's daughter Kate Carmody is in love with Bluey but he refuses to be tied down to any one woman. War breaks out and the three men enlist in the Australian army and are assigned to the 9th Division. They ship out to Africa.
40,000 Horsemen (1940)
, 1h40Directed by Charles Chauvel
Genres Drama, War
Themes Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Chips Rafferty, Michael Pate
Rating60%
In 1916 Jerusalem, German troops led by Von Schiller arrest French wine seller Paul Rouget for spying and hang him. His daughter Juliet goes into hiding dressed as a boy and starts spying on the Germans.
Rangle River (1936)
, 1h26Directed by Clarence G. Badger
Genres Action, Adventure, Western
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Victor Jory, Robert Coote
Rating63%
Marion Hastings returns to her father Dan's cattle property in western Queensland after being away in Europe for fifteen years. She is treated with hostility by her father's foreman, Dick Drake, and her father's neighbour, Don Lawton.
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Uncivilised (1936)
, 1h22Directed by Charles Chauvel
Genres Adventure, Romance
Actors Dennis Hoey
Roles Assistant Director
Rating50%
Successful author Beatrice Lynn is commissioned by her publisher to go to the Outback and locate the legendary white man, Mala, who heads an aboriginal tribe. Travelling by camel, she is abducted by an Afghan, Akbar Jhan and his group of aboriginals who provide pituri, a narcotic to aboriginals. Previously not allowed into Mala's tribal land to sell his wares, Akbar Jhan has schemed to use Beatrice, a white woman to arouse Mala's interest.