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4 unusual facts about Gaumont British


Marion K. Sanders

She did assorted free lance writing and a year's graduate work at the Columbia School of Journalism until 1932 when she took a job as assistant to trustee and public relations director for the Roxy Theater, and later director of public relations Gaumont British Picture, Corp.

Mary Beth Hughes

While touring with another production in Brown's company, she was offered a contract from a talent scout with Gaumont-British Studios but declined the offer to finish high school.

Philip Bawcombe

From 1930 Bawcombe applied his skills to film sets joining the industrial art department of Gaumont-British Picture Corporation.

The Clue of the Missing Ape

Directed by James Hill, it was produced by the Gaumont Specialised Film Unit, a descendant of the Gaumont British film studio.


Charles Frend

Charles Frend started his career at British International Pictures in 1931 and after editing Hitchcock's Waltzes from Vienna (1934) moved to Gaumont British Pictures in 1933 where he worked as an editor on Alfred Hitchcock's movies Secret Agent (1936), Sabotage (1936) and Young and Innocent (1937).

General Film Distributors

General Film Distributors was created in 1935 by the British film distributor C. M. Woolf (1879–1942) after he had resigned from Gaumont British and closed his distribution company Woolf & Freedman Film Service.

Pen Tennyson

He began his career as a camera assistant under Balcon at Gaumont British Studios at Shepherd's Bush.

Phoenix Cinema

The major alterations of 1938 were a response to competition from the new 1000 seater 'picture palaces' being built by chains such as Odeon, ABC and Gaumont in the surrounding area.

The Romance of Hine-moa

The Romance of Hine-Moa is a 1927 British film set in New Zealand, directed and produced for Gaumont British by Gustav Pauli.


see also

Lou Levy

Louis Levy (1894–1957), English composer and musical director of Gaumont-British studios