People recommend Ena Reiss movie
Movie Premier in 1930.
Color Info: Black and White
Countries: UK
Genres: Short, Musical
Languages: English
Runtimes: 9
Sound Mix: Mono
In movie played:
Ena Reiss (actress)
Michael Balcon (producer)
Co-founder, along with Graham Cutts, of Gainsborough Pictures in 1924., Father of actress 'Jill Balcon' (qv), who was married to the poet laureate Cecil Day-Lewis, and Jonathan Balcon, a former Lloyd's broker., Grandfather of 'Daniel Day-Lewis' (qv)., Director and Head of Production at Ealing Film Studios from 1937 to 1959. With the demise of Ealing as an active film studio he went on to form Bryanston Films (1959) and took control of British Lion (1964)., Chairman of the Experimental Film Fund, created in 1952, an organisation which went on to become part of the British Film Institute and supported the earliest works of directors such as Ridley Scott.
Death Notes: Hartfield, East Sussex, England, UK
Michael Balcon started delimited by films a s a spike, next a company from the impetuous 1920s, helping to launch the art of Alfred Hitchcock. In the 1930s Balcon be prominent in belongings stirring a ad nauseam annual harvest list of items of films in favour of both Gainsborough and Gaumont-British. Head of MGM-British, 1936-38, then in blame of production at Ealing. Knighted in 1948. After Ealing, produced one films singly ('Sammy Going South', 1962), and help comprise Bryanston Films, a circle of self-ruling floor show maker mutually near several ex- Ealing colleagues such in fix of Basil Dearden and Michael Relph. After a frustrating outbreak as Chairman of British Lion (1964-68), where on earth he found it impossible to fulfill his commitment to reinforcement a continuity of aboriginal production, he become Chairman of the British Institute's Experimental Film Fund since leaving in 1972.
Quotes: "A great many motives were attributed to why we made the films we did; all I can say is that we just enjoyed making films." [A comment after the publication of Charles Barr's "Ealing Studios", 1977], "We made films at Ealing that were good, bad and indifferent, but they were indisputably British. They were rooted in the soil of the country.", "I always look for people whose ideas coincide with mine, and then I'm ready to give them a chance to make a name for thamselves."
Birth Notes: Birmingham, England, UK
Books: Geoff Brown & Lawrence Kardish. _Michael Balcon: The Pursuit of British Cinema._ New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1984. ISBN 0870702491, Michael Balcon. _A Lifetime of films._ London: Hutchinson, 1970ish.
Birth Name: Balcon, Michael Elias
Spouse: 'Aileen Freda Leatherman' (10 April 1924 - 17 October 1977) (his death); 2 children
Death Date: 17 October 1977
Birth Date: 19 May 1896
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