Search a film or person :
FacebookConnectionRegistration
Margaret Kennedy is a Scriptwriter and Additional Dialogue British born on 23 april 1896

Margaret Kennedy

Margaret Kennedy
  • Infos
  • Photos
  • Best films
  • Family
  • Characters
  • Awards
If you like this person, let us know!
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 23 april 1896
Death 31 july 1967 (at 71 years)

Margaret Kennedy, née le 23 avril 1896 à Hyde Park Gate, Londres, et morte le 31 juillet 1967 à Adderbury, dans le comté d'Oxfordshire, est une femme de lettres, romancière et scénariste britannique.

Biography

Elle fait ses études au Cheltenham Ladies' College, puis à l'Université d'Oxford. En 1925, elle épouse « sir David Davies, devenant ainsi lady Davies » pour la haute société anglaise.

Elle fait paraître en 1922 un simple manuel d'histoire, mais c'est en 1924, lors de la publication de son roman le plus célèbre, La Nymphe au cœur fidèle (The Constant Nymph), qu'elle accède à la célébrité. En collaboration avec Basil Dean, le roman est adapté au théâtre en 1926, puis, en France, en 1934, par Jean Giraudoux sous le titre Tessa. Margaret Kennedy a écrit en 1930 une suite à son roman, L'Idiot de la famille. La pièce qu'elle tire en 1934, intitulée Tu ne m'échapperas jamais (Escape Me Never!), est un gros succès.

Dans les années 1930 et 1940, elle signe plusieurs scénarios, seule ou en collaboration, notamment pour plusieurs films réalisés par Paul Czinner et mettant en vedette l'actrice britannique Elisabeth Bergner.

Elle publie peu pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, hormis The Mechanized Muse, un essai sur le cinéma. À partir de 1950, elle reprend sa plume de romancière pour plusieurs titres qui obtiennent un succès moins considérable que ses œuvres des années 1930.

Elle reçoit en 1953 le James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

Usually with

Basil Dean
Basil Dean
(5 films)
Paul Czinner
Paul Czinner
(3 films)
Mary Clare
Mary Clare
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Margaret Kennedy (17 films)

Display filmography as list

Scriptwriter

That Dangerous Age
Directed by Gregory Ratoff
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Myrna Loy, Roger Livesey, Peggy Cummins, Richard Greene, Elizabeth Allan, Jean Cadell
Roles Theatre Play
Rating63% 3.186973.186973.186973.186973.18697
A lady on the Isle of Capri, neglected by a husband who works too much, strikes up a romance with another man.
Escape Me Never, 1h44
Directed by Peter Godfrey, Peter Godfrey
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Errol Flynn, Ida Lupino, Eleanor Parker, Gig Young, Reginald Denny, Albert Bassermann
Roles Novel
Rating59% 2.9961052.9961052.9961052.9961052.996105
The story takes place in Venice at the turn of the 20th century. A young composer by the name of Caryl Dubrok (Gig Young) has a love affair with wealthy English heiress, Fenella MacLean (Eleanor Parker), until her parents by mistake start believing that Caryl is living with young widow Gemma Smith (Ida Lupino) and her infant baby.
Take My Life, 1h19
Directed by Ronald Neame, George Pollock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Hugh Williams, Greta Gynt, Marius Goring, Francis L. Sullivan, Henry Edwards, Maurice Denham
Rating68% 3.4386753.4386753.4386753.4386753.438675
Nicholas "Nicky" Talbot attends the London debut of his wife, opera singer Philippa Shelley, at Covent Garden. After her successful performance, Nicky runs into former girlfriend Elizabeth Rusman backstage, a musician in the orchestra, who asks for his help. She gives him her address before Philippa appears (and keeps his personalised pencil). At home, Nicky and a jealous Philippa quarrel over Elizabeth. When Philippa throws an object that strikes her husband in the forehead, he leaves in a huff.
The Man in Grey, 1h56
Directed by Leslie Arliss
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Actors Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Phyllis Calvert, Stewart Granger, Martita Hunt, Helen Haye
Rating64% 3.2428653.2428653.2428653.2428653.242865
In 1943, a WREN (Phyllis Calvert) and an RAF pilot (Stewart Granger) meet at an auction of Rohan family heirlooms, now all being sold off after the last of the Rohan male line was killed at Dunkirk. After the RAF pilot inadvertently casts aspersions on the Rohan family, the WREN reveals that the last male Rohan was in fact her brother. The RAF man apologises, and reveals that his family are connected to the Rohans in a way, and so they arrange to meet for lunch and at the auction the following day.
The Constant Nymph, 1h52
Directed by Edmund Goulding
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romantic drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films based on plays
Actors Joan Fontaine, Charles Boyer, Alexis Smith, Brenda Marshall, Charles Coburn, May Whitty
Roles Novel
Rating66% 3.3431253.3431253.3431253.3431253.343125
Lewis Dodd (Charles Boyer) is a composer in Brussels, but his most recent latest symphony is badly received in London. To get over the rejection, he decides to visit his old friend and fellow musician, Albert Sanger (Montagu Love), at his house in Switzerland. Lewis' arrival causes great excitement among Sanger's four daughters: Kate (Jean Muir), Toni (Brenda Marshall), Tessa (Joan Fontaine) and Paula (Joyce Reynolds).
Prison Without Bars
Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Prison films
Actors Glynis Johns, Edna Best, Mary Morris, Barry K. Barnes, Martita Hunt, Corinne Luchaire
Roles Writer
Rating60% 3.0034253.0034253.0034253.0034253.003425
A young modern woman comes to a reformatory dominated by the harsh previous head. A young girl is blackmailed by her acquaintance for her love for the head's fiancé, but is released to join him in the end, when all is revealed.
Dreaming Lips, 1h34
Directed by Lee Garmes, Paul Czinner
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Elisabeth Bergner, Raymond Massey, Romney Brent, Joyce Bland, Felix Aylmer, J. Fisher White
Rating57% 2.896862.896862.896862.896862.89686
The wife (Bergner) of a violin player (Brent) in a famous orchestra, falls in love with her husband's friend and, tragically, drowns herself.
Whom the Gods Love: The Original Story of Mozart and His Wife, 1h22
Directed by Basil Dean
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Historical, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Stephen Haggard, John Loder, Victoria Hopper, Liane Haid, Hubert Harben, Frederick Leister
Roles Writer
Rating58% 2.9183752.9183752.9183752.9183752.918375
L'histoire de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart et de sa femme Constance, dans un contexte d’intrigues de cour et de jalousie professionnelle.
Whom the Gods Love: The Original Story of Mozart and His Wife, 1h36
Directed by Basil Dean
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors John Loder, Stephen Haggard, Liane Haid, Victoria Hopper, Jean Cadell, Marie Lohr
Roles Writer
Rating58% 2.9183752.9183752.9183752.9183752.918375
L'histoire de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart et de sa femme Constance, dans un contexte d’intrigues de cour et de jalousie professionnelle.
Little Friend
Directed by Berthold Viertel
Genres Drama
Actors Matheson Lang, Lydia Sherwood, Nova Pilbeam, Arthur Margetson, Jean Cadell, Jimmy Hanley
Roles Scenario Writer
Rating66% 3.348583.348583.348583.348583.34858
A young girl (Pilbeam) slowly becomes aware that her parent's marriage is disintegrating.
The Constant Nymph
Directed by Basil Dean
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romantic drama, Romance
Actors Brian Aherne, Leonora Corbett, Victoria Hopper, Jim Gerald, Mary Clare, Jane Baxter
Roles Theatre Play
Rating67% 3.3841253.3841253.3841253.3841253.384125
This romance is set in Tyrol, western Austria. Previously filmed in 1928, the sentimental Margaret Kennedy novel The Constant Nymph was sumptuously remade by Gaumont-British Picture Corporation in 1933. Victoria Hopper plays the title character, a rich, Belgian gamine named Tessa Sanger. The girl falls hopelessly in love with world-famous composer Lewis Dodd (Brian Aherne), who is so full of himself that he barely acknowledges Tessa's existence. As she looks on in quiet desperation, Dodd marries another woman, his distant cousin Florence (Leonora Corbett). It takes him nearly the entire picture to realize what a fool he's been, and that Tessa was the one girl for him all along—but alas, it's too late. The Constant Nymph was remade by Warner Bros. in 1943, at which time all prints of the 1933 version were supposed to be destroyed, however, several prints did survive.