Nancy Price

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Nancy Price
Birth name Lilian Nancy Bache Price
Born February 03, 1880
Kinver,Staffordshire,England
Died March 31, 1970
Worthing,England
Spouse(s) Charles Maude
Children Joan Maude

Nancy Price (February 03, 1880 – March 31, 1970), born Lilian Nancy Bache Price in Kinver, Staffordshire, England, was an actress, authoress and manageress of Little Theatre in the Adelphi, a West End theatre on the Strand in London.

Nancy was married to the actor Charles Maude until his death in 1943 and together they had a daughter, the actress Joan Maude. In her full and varied career Price appeared in over thirty films and published twenty four books of anecdotes, essays, novels, plays, autobiography and poems.

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[edit] Selective Filmography

  • Comin' Thro' the Rye (1923)

Notwithstanding the fact that this has been described as Producer/Director Cecil Hepworth's "best and most important film" [1] it failed to save his struggling production company at the box office. Nancy Price plays the part of Mrs.Titmouse alongside Alma Taylor who as the lead character Helen Adair has her love for Ralph Forbes's Paul Vasher thwarted by the scheming of his former girlfriend, played by Eileen Dennes.

This early Sherlock Holmes film sees Nancy Price acting alongside Raymond Massey in his screen debut as the enduringly popular detective. Based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's story The Adventure of the Speckled Band, and a subsequent version written and produced by Doyle for the stage, the plot centres around a sinister attempt to capture the inheritance of a young woman. Nancy Price appears in the role of Mrs. Staunton, housekeeper to Lyn Harding's villainous Dr. Grimesby Rylott and his stepdaughter played by Angela Baddeley.

Adapted from Charlotte Armstrong's novel The Case of the Three Weird Sisters, the screenplay for this chilling gothic thriller was co-written by the celebrated poet Dylan Thomas. Nancy Price plays the formidable Gertrude Morgan-Vaughan one of three spinster sisters fighting their younger brother for control of the family ancestral home and standing defiant in the face of advancing modernity. Gertrude's blindness in no way impedes her resolve, but along with the deafness of her sister Maude played by Mary Clare, and the arthritis of sister Isobel played by Mary Merrall, goes someway to explaining the title of the film.

[edit] Film Directors

Nancy worked with many of the leading British and American film directors of her day including: Herbert Wilcox, Bert Wynne, Carol Reed, Thomas Bentley, Thornton Freeland, Marc Allegret, Sidney Morgan, Charles F. Reisner, William C. De Mille, George Pearson, Walter Forde, Arthur Crabtree, James Patrick Hogan, Charles Calvert, Jack Raymond, Stanley Haynes, Sinclair Hill, Daniel Birt, Harold French, Michael Powell, Herbert Wilcox, Cecil Hepworth, Randle Ayrton, Harry Lachman, G. B. Samuelson, Alexander MacKendrick, Edgar Selwyn, and Fred Paul.

[edit] Selective Bibliography

  • (With Mazo de la Roche) Whiteoaks: A Play (adapted from Whiteoaks of Jalna; first produced in London, England, at Little Theatre the Adelphi, April 13, 1936; produced on Broadway, 1938), Macmillan, 1936.
  • The Gulls Way, Price, Lilian Nancy Bache, Gollantz Ltd, 1937
  • Acquainted with the night: A book of dreams (Illustrated by Michael Rothenstein), G.Ronald, 1949
  • (With Eden Phillpotts) The Orange Orchard London: Samuel French, 1951.

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ Low, Rachael. The History of British Film, page 112, ISBN 0-415-15649-1, Routledge 1997

[edit] See also

  • Raising the Flag: Constructing a National Cinema in Britain, Andrew Higson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995, ISBN 0-19-812369-8. Chapter on Comin' Thro' The Rye: pp. 26-97.
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