David Lean was also rapidly becoming a force in world cinema with Brief Encounter and his Dickens adaptations Great Expectations and Oliver Twist, and Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger would experience the best of their creative partnership with films like Black Narcissus and The Red Shoes.

The war years also saw the flowering of the Powell and Pressburger partnership with films like 49th Parallel ( 1941 ), The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ( 1943 ) and A Canterbury Tale ( 1944 ) which, while set in wartime, were very much about the people affected by war rather than battles.

Amongst those who worked for Ingram at MGM on the Riviera during this period was the young Michael Powell, who later went on to direct ( with Emeric Pressburger ) The Red Shoes and other classics.

The shift from monochrome to color, to distinguish the angels ' reality from the mortals ', was first used in A Matter of Life and Death by Powell and Pressburger in 1946.

The Red Shoes ( 1948 ) is a British feature film about a ballet dancer, written, directed and produced by the team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, known collectively as The Archers.

It was also nominated in the categories " Best Picture " ( Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger ), " Best Writing, Motion Picture Story " ( Emeric Pressburger ) and " Best Film Editing " ( Reginald Mills ).

The Red Shoes is also arguably the most famous work done by Powell and Pressburger and is considered one of their great works as well as a classic of British cinema.

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The British Film Academy was founded in 1947 by David Lean, Alexander Korda, Carol Reed, Laurence Olivier, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Roger Manvell and other leading figures in the British film industry.

His first international scores for the film Ill Met by Moonlight and Luna de Miel, directors: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, were also very successful: The Honeymoon title song became part of the repertoire of The Beatles.

# Filmscores: The Barefoot Battalion ( Greg Tallas ); Ill Met by Moonlight and Honeymoon ( Powell and Pressburger ); Faces in the Dark ( David Eady ).

During the 1950s, Bogarde came to prominence playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable in The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) co-starring Jack Warner and Bernard Lee ; a handsome artist who comes to rescue of Jean Simmons during the World's Fair in Paris in So Long at the Fair, a film noir thriller ; an accidental murderer who befriends a young boy played by Jon Whiteley in Hunted ( aka The Stranger in Between ) ( 1952 ); in Appointment in London ( 1953 ) as a young Wing-Commander in Bomber Command who, against orders, opts to fly his 90th mission with his men in a major air offensive against the Germans ; an unjustly imprisoned man who regains hope in clearing his name when he learns his sweetheart, Mai Zetterling, is still alive in Desperate Moment ( 1953 ); Doctor in the House ( 1954 ), as a medical student, in a film that made Bogarde one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s, and co-starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and James Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor ; The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ), playing a neurotic criminal with co-star Alexis Smith, and Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director Joseph Losey ; Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles ; as a returning Colonial who fights the Mau-Mau with Virginia McKenna and Donald Sinden in Simba ( 1955 ); Cast a Dark Shadow ( 1955 ), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them ; The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ), co-starring Michael Hordern, Jon Whiteley, and Cyril Cusack ; Doctor at Large ( 1957 ), again with Donald Sinden, another entry in the " Doctor films series ", co-starring later Bond-girl Shirley Eaton ; the Powell and Pressburger production Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1957 ) co-starring Marius Goring as the German General Kreipe, kidnapped on Crete by Patrick " Paddy " Leigh Fermor ( Bogarde ) and a fellow band of adventurers based on W. Stanley Moss ' real-life account of the WW2 caper ; A Tale of Two Cities ( 1958 ), a faithful retelling of Charles Dickens ' classic ; as a Flt.

Michael Latham Powell ( 30 September 1905 – 19 February 1990 ) was a renowned English film director, celebrated for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger.

The film was The Spy in Black, where Powell first met Emeric Pressburger.

After making two more films together ( Contraband ( 1940 ) and 49th Parallel ) with separate credits, the pair decided to form a partnership and to sign their films jointly as " Written, Produced and Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

: For his films with Emeric Pressburger, see Powell and Pressburger and Powell and Pressburger films

On the day it was signed, 14 November, Powell asked her in the Commons: " Does the right hon.

After rising to fame as a singer in her home state of Oregon, Powell was signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer while still in her teens.

Without even taking a screen test, Powell was then signed to a seven-year contract with MGM.

While Hankinson did bring effective players like Mark Chung, Chris Henderson, Carlos Valderrama, and Joe Cannon to the squad — and made the playoffs every year — Hankinson also signed a number of expensive and unsuccessful players including ZiZi Roberts and Darryl Powell.

Beck's studio producer was Mickie Most and Powell soon found himself drafted into sessions for artists signed to Most's RAK label, including Julie Felix, Hot Chocolate, Donovan and Suzi Quatro.

In 1993, President Clinton signed into law an act of Congress renaming the Federal courthouse at Richmond, Virginia in his honor, the Lewis F. Powell, Jr. United States Courthouse.

The blog quickly gained a large following, and Powell signed a book deal with Little, Brown and Company.

The UUP MP Enoch Powell asked Thatcher in the Commons the day before she signed the Agreement: " Does the right hon.

The newspaper based the accusations on a letter allegedly written to Colin Powell and signed by US Congressmen Philip Crane, Mike Pence, Charlie Norwood, Dan Burton and Henry Bonilla and posted on the website of the American Defense Council.

Powell had only signed for one series originally and the producers wanted him to sign for a second run but he was adamant that he wanted to leave the show on a high, and suggested that they get rid of him by blowing him up, which they did.

The newspaper based the accusations on a letter allegedly written to Colin Powell and signed by US Congressmen Philip Crane, Mike Pence, Charlie Norwood, Dan Burton and Henry Bonilla and posted on the website of the American Defense Council.

In early April and still signed to RAK, Jeff Beck reformed The Jeff Beck Group group with keyboardist Max Middleton, drummer Cozy Powell and bassist Clive Chaman and vocalist Alex Ligertwood.

In 2000, just before Primary Slave signed a recording contract, Allender rejoined Cradle of Filth after receiving a call from Dani Filth, along with drummer Adrian Erlandsson and keyboardist Martin Powell on the band's album, Midian.

On 21 November 2008, Powell signed an initial two month contract for Derby, and made his debut in the 2 – 0 defeat to Ipswich Town a day later.

But in 1987, Wilkeson and Powell signed on with a reunited version of Skynyrd, with Ronnie Van Zant's youngest brother, Johnny, supplying lead vocals.

In July 2009, Powell signed a contract to be a player-coach at Leicester City, becoming first team development coach, and also re-registering himself as a player.

Powell signed 19 new players in summer 2011, including midfielders Danny Green, Danny Hollands, Dale Stephens, defenders Matt Taylor, Rhoys Wiggins and goalkeeper Ben Hamer.

On August 14, 2008, Powell signed a contract with the Los Angeles Lakers to replace the departed Ronny Turiaf.

On July 26, 2010, after winning two championship rings with the Lakers, Powell signed a 1-year deal worth $ 1. 1 million with the Atlanta Hawks.

In the summer of 2011, Powell signed with the Liaoning Dinosaurs of China.

After playing in China, Powell signed to play in Switzerland.

There is a chapter about her in Julie Powell ’ s book Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen and appears as herself in the film adaptation.

Lennon's first wife Cynthia Powell lightened her hair color to more closely resemble Bardot, while George Harrison made comparisons between Bardot and his first wife Pattie Boyd, as Cynthia wrote later in A Twist of Lennon.

In an interview for Today shortly after her departure from office in 1991, Margaret Thatcher said that Powell had " made a valid argument, if in sometimes regrettable terms.

During the election campaign, Thatcher, when questioned, again repeated her vow that there would be no position for Powell in her cabinet if the Conservatives won the forthcoming general election.

After British forces successfully recaptured the Falklands, Powell asked Thatcher in the Commons on 17 June, recalling his statement to her of 3 April: " Is the right hon.

Powell later came into conflict with Thatcher during November 1985 because of her support for the Anglo-Irish Agreement.

After Thatcher's Bruges speech in September 1988 and her increasing hostility to a European currency in the last years of her premiership, Powell made many speeches publicly supporting her attitude to Europe.

After Thatcher resisted further European integration at a meeting at Strasbourg in November Powell asked her parliamentary private secretary Mark Lennox-Boyd to pass to her " my respectful congratulations on her stand ... she both spoke for Britain and gave a lead to Europe –- in the line of succession of Winston Churchill and William Pitt.

When Thatcher was challenged by Michael Heseltine for the leadership of the Conservative Party during November 1990, Powell said he would rejoin the party, which he had left in February 1974 over the issue of Europe, if Thatcher won, and would urge the public to support both her and, in Powell's view, national independence.

1936 proved to be a big year for Lombard with her casting in the screwball comedy My Man Godfrey alongside ex-husband William Powell who refused to do the film unless Lombard was cast opposite him.

Although divorced, Lombard and Powell remained friends until her death.

In 1934, following her divorce from Powell, Lombard moved into a house on Hollywood Boulevard.

Bridgewater's album Dear Ella ( 1997 ) featured many musicians that were closely associated with Fitzgerald during her career, including the pianist Lou Levy, the trumpeter Benny Powell, and Fitzgerald's second husband, double bassist Ray Brown.

It focuses on a soldier ( Dick Powell ) who falls in love with a general's daughter ( Ruby Keeler ) during the general's brief stop in Hawaii, but she leaves with her father for the Philippines before their relationship can blossom.

Irene Foster ( Eleanor Powell ) tries to convince her high school sweetheart Broadway producer Robert Gordon ( Robert Taylor ) to give her chance to star in his new musical, but he is too busy with the rich widow ( June Knight ) backing his show.

From Terry's expensive clothing and her photograph of her elderly grandfather, Jean assumes she has obtained the former from her sugar daddy, just as fellow resident Linda Shaw ( Gail Patrick ) has from her relationship with influential theatrical producer Anthony Powell ( Adolphe Menjou ).