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She was born Violette Muriel Baker in Tolworth, Surrey, England in 1905.

When her attempts at acting and dancing proved to be unsuccessful, she accepted work as a continuity girl for British International Pictures.

In 1935, she met and married journalist Sydney Box, with whom she collaborated on nearly forty plays with mainly female roles for amateur theatre groups.

Their production company, Verity Films, first released short propaganda films ( including The English Inn in 1941, her first directing effort ) during World War II, after which it branched into fiction.