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Rank took up the challenge and via an introduction by a young film producer named John Corfield, he discussed both the problem and a solution with Lady Yule of Bricket Wood.
Having first created a film production company and having made a movie at another studio, Rank, Lady Yule and John Corfield began talking to Charles Boot who had recently bought the estate of Heatherden Hall at Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, for the purpose of turning it into a movie studio that would rival those in Hollywood, California.
Annie Henrietta Yule, Lady Yule ( b. 1874, d. 25 July 1950 ) was the eldest daughter of Andrew Yule of Calcutta, India.
In 1925, Sir David constructed Hanstead House in Bricket Wood, Hertfordshire, where Lady Yule and her daughter Gladys lived for the rest of their lives.
Lady Yule and her daughter Gladys were world travellers who reportedly shared an interest in big game hunting and a love of animals.
In 1934 the British National Films Company was formed in England by J. Arthur Rank, Lady Yule and producer John Corfield, who were also the original owner-operators of Pinewood Film Studios.
Later Lady Yule sold her shares to J. Arthur Rank.
In 1934 the British National Films Company was formed in England by J. Arthur Rank, Lady Annie Henrietta Yule of Bricket Wood and producer John Corefield.
A young producer named John Corefield introduced J. Arthur Rank to Lady Annie Henrietta Yule of Bricket Wood, who was both extremely wealthy and extremely bored with life.
However, when it came to the business side of film production, Lady Yule did not share the same ideas as J. Arthur Rank with regards to the making and distributing films to improve society, because she did not believe in giving discounts to religiously motivated film productions.
In 1934 J. Arthur Rank, Lady Yule and John Corefield formed the British National Films Company and went into production in answer to the challenge by the Evening News to the Methodist Times.
John Corfield eventually resigned from the board of Pinewood Film Studios and Lady Yule sold her shares to J. Arthur Rank.

Lady and later
She then read Latin at Birmingham University and later attended Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, to read Philosophy, Politics and Economics ( PPE ).
The episode was watched by over 24 million viewers – more ITV viewers than the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana two days later.
Although Jane Austen tried her hand at the epistolary in juvenile writings and her novella Lady Susan, she abandoned this structure for her later work.
In the later war years Gainsborough Studios produced a series of critically derided but immensely popular period melodramas including The Man in Grey ( 1943 ) and The Wicked Lady ( 1945 ).
Two years later, Cukor achieved one of his greatest successes with My Fair Lady.
In 1938, Warner Bros. put Bogart in a " hillbilly musical " called Swing Your Lady as a wrestling promoter ; he later apparently considered this his worst film performance.
and the Lady were connected with a cult which was transmitted later to the Eleusinian mysteries.
* Lady Macbeth – Macbeth's wife and later Queen of Scotland
Macready's most famous Lady Macbeth was Helena Faucit, who debuted dismally in the role while still in her mid-20s, but who later achieved acclaim in the role for an interpretation that, unlike Siddons ', accorded with contemporary notions of female decorum.
Sir John Hussey, later Lord Hussey, was her chamberlain from 1530, and his wife, Lady Anne, daughter of George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent, was one of Mary's attendants.
In 1967, Nancy Reagan was appointed by her husband to the California Arts Commission, and a year later was named Los Angeles Times Woman of the Year ; in its profile, the Times labeled her " A Model First Lady ".
She attended the funeral of Lady Bird Johnson in Austin, Texas on July 14, 2007 and three days later accepted the highest Polish distinction, the Order of the White Eagle, on behalf of Ronald Reagan at the Reagan Library.
Lady Catherine de Bourgh later bursts in on Longbourn ; intending to thwart local rumour, she warns Elizabeth against marrying Mr Darcy.
In 1922, she married Edward Hilton Young, later Lord Kennet ( she becoming Lady Kennet ), and remained a doughty defender of Scott's reputation until her death, aged 69, in 1947.
Through Lady Kent he met her steward, the jurist John Selden who influenced his later writings.
Almost a year later, on 11 April 1896, the play received its Australian premiere at the Criterion Theatre in Sydney, with eminent local stage actress Jenny Watt-Tanner in the role of Lady Bracknell.
* Hester Stanhope, Viscountess Mahon ( 19 October 1755-20 July 1780 ), who married Viscount Mahon, later the 3rd Earl Stanhope, on 19 December 1774 ; three children, including the traveler and Arabist Lady Hester Stanhope.
* April 26 – The Prince Albert, Duke of York ( later George VI, King of the United Kingdom ) marries Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon ( later Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother ) in Westminster Abbey.
* August 21 – The church ( later cathedral ) of Our Lady of Candlemas of Mayagüez ( Puerto Rico ) is founded, establishing the basis for the founding of the city.
Anne was the daughter of Thomas Boleyn, later Earl of Wiltshire and Earl of Ormond, and his wife, Lady Elizabeth Howard, daughter of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk.
James Butler later married Lady Joan Fitzgerald, daughter and heiress of James FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Desmond and Amy O ' Brien.
Had he outlived his brother by even a day he would have become Sir Rawdon Crawley and Becky would have become Lady Crawley, a title she uses anyway in later life.
" The Rosary and the Scapular are inseparable " were words attributed to the Virgin Mary by Lucia Santos, one of the three children who reported the Marian apparitions of Our Lady of Fátima in 1917 and later the Pontevedra apparitions in 1925, Fátima, Portugal and Pontevedra in Galicia, Spain.
Two months later, on 22 June 1483, Edward IV's marriage was declared invalid ( Edward, it was claimed, had at the time of his marriage to Elizabeth Woodville already been betrothed to Lady Eleanor Butler ); this made the children of the marriage bastards and ineligible for the succession.

Lady and sold
Following the Reformation, the Abbey was dissolved in 1539 and the Abbey Church sold to the town in 1553 for £ 400: it became a Protestant parish church for the borough and the Lady Chapel was used as a school.
These changes made the supplementary steamer redundant and the Lady Beatrice was sold.
) acquired for television most of Warner Bros ' pre-1950 library, including all Merrie Melodies ( except for those sold to Sunset and Lady, Play Your Mandolin!
The seventh, found before the events of the book by the Lady Sharrow and her team, was destroyed by the university it was sold to when they tampered with it.
In 1553 the Lady Chapel became a school, the Great Gatehouse a town jail, some other buildings passed to the Crown, and the Abbey Church was sold to the town for £ 400 in 1553 by King Edward VI to be the church of the parish.
* Lady Gaga sold out 5 back-to-back shows at the Garden for her The Monster Ball Tour in approximately 2 minutes.
In 2011, his " Lady Blunt " violin from 1721, which is in pristine condition, was sold at Tarisio auctions for £ 9. 8 million, or about $ 15. 9 million ( it is named after Lord Byron's granddaughter Lady Anne Blunt, who owned it for 30 years ).
In Germany the album sold over a million copies and became Uriah Heep's most successful, which coincided with the success of the re-released " Lady in Black ".
" World Without Love ", " Nobody I Know ", " True Love Ways ", and " Lady Godiva " each sold over one million copies, and were awarded gold discs.
LuPone performs regularly in her solo shows Matters of the Heart ; Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda ; and The Lady With the Torch which sold out at Carnegie Hall.
Lady Blessington sold " Shakespeare " for him.
Lady Blessington sold almost all her possessions and followed him there, but died a few weeks after her arrival, leaving him heartbroken.
Drayton Beauchamp was sold by the Cheyne family to John Gumby in 1730 and subsequently the manor house and lands were inherited by Lady Robert Manners.
In 1957 Lady Bullough had sold the whole island, save for the Mausoleum, but including the castle and its contents, to the Nature Conservancy Council ( now Scottish Natural Heritage ) for the " knock-down price of £ 23, 000 " on the understanding that it would be used as a National Nature Reserve.
Lady Agnes ' daughter sold the estate in 1913.
As the style of his later works continued to evolve into early 1989, his vintage works drew increasing profits ; at Sotheby's auctions Pink Lady ( 1944 ) sold for US $ 3. 6 million in 1987 and Interchange ( 1955 ) brought $ 20. 6 million in 1989.
In 2007 many of the Earl Annesley's effects, remainder from the auction at Castlewellan in the 1960s, were sold at auction on-site at Shimna House, Newcastle, County Down, in the wake of the death of Mr. Gerald Annesley-son of Lady Mabel, heir to the estate.
The lands remained in the Ralston family until 1704 when they were sold by Gavin Ralston to John, Earl of Dundonald, who conferred them on his daughter, Lady Anne Cochrane, when she married James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Hamilton.
When Lady Foley, the widow of Edward Thomas Foley, sold off parts of her estate in the 1800s, she stipulated that all plots around the town centre should be planted with trees.
The 7th Baronet's son, Sir Edwin Dashwood, 8th Baronet, arrived from New Zealand to claim the house, only to find Lady Dashwood's heirs claiming the house's contents and family jewellery, which they subsequently sold.
It was occupied by the 6th earl's niece, Lady Catherine Ashburnham ( 1890-1953 ), until her death in 1953, and subsequently the contents were sold in 1953 and the land in 1953-57.
Rembrandt's " Portrait of a Lady " was sold by Christie's in London to the Dutch art dealer Robert Noortman for a record price of US $ 28. 7 million.
Not able to increase KTBC's broadcasting power from the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ), the three partners then sold KTBC to Lady Bird Johnson in January – February 1943 ; she was the wife of then U. S. Representative-and future U. S. President-Lyndon B. Johnson.

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