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	Ealing Studios - history - wickedlady.com
		Michael Balcon former head of production at Gainsborough and Gaumont British was recommended as a replacement, he had recently been working for the British arm of MGM and although the three films he produced were successes he had hated every minute.
		Paramount in Balcon's mind was the need to portray "a projection of the true Briton to the rest of the world" (Balcon, 1945), not only to foreign markets but also to a war weary public at home who had won the war but were still in the grip of rationing and austerity.
		Balcon and others in the industry were also aware that cinema audiences were much more sophisticated than in the 1930s, they no longer wanted to be presented with a set of ideas or ideals which they should aspire to.
	www.wickedlady.com /films/ealing/ealing.html (1458 words)

	Michael Balcon - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Sir Michael Balcon (May 19, 1896–October 17, 1977) was a British film producer, best known for his work with the Ealing Studios.
		Born in Birmingham, he began his career in filmmaking during the 1920s, producing his first film, Woman to Woman (starring Clive Brook) in 1923, and began working at Ealing in the early 1940s.
		His daughter Jill Balcon became an actress, his son-in-law Cecil Day-Lewis became the Poet Laureate and his grandson is the successful actor Daniel Day-Lewis.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Michael_Balcon (169 words)

	Michael Balcon - Biography - wickedlady.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Michael Balcon is considered one of the most important figures in British Cinema it was his vision that brought international prestige to Gainsborough in the 20s and 30s.
		Michael Balcon's career began in Birmingham in 1920, where, with Victor Saville he was a film distributor.
		Commercially and personally 1948 was a good year for Balcon Scott of the Antarctic starring John Mills was selected for the Royal Command Film Performance, and he received a knighthood from the King.
	www.wickedlady.com /films/ealing/balconm.html (516 words)

	Sir Michael Balcon
		Michael Balcon, who was often regarded as one of the pioneers of the British film industry, had courage and a flair for showmanship, to which was added a good business brain.
		Balcon, the son of Louis Balcon of South Africa and Birmingham was born in Birmingham on 19 May, 1896.
		Balcon married Aileen Leatherman in 1924 and they had a son and a daughter, Jill (the actress widow of the poet Cecil Day-Lewis).
	www.birmingham.gov.uk /GenerateContent?CONTENT_ITEM_ID=928&CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE=0&MENU_ID=29&EXPAND=15 (326 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Balcon Sir Michael Elias
		Balcon, Sir Michael Elias (1896–1977), English motion-picture producer.
		Redgrave, Sir Michael (1908-1985), British stage and motion-picture actor, known for his intellectual and distinguished theatrical persona.
		Tippett, Sir Michael (1905-1998), British composer, one of the United Kingdom's leading composers with a large body of instrumental and operatic...
	encarta.msn.com /Balcon_Sir_Michael_Elias.html (134 words)

	Daniel Day-Lewis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (born April 29, 1957) is a British/Irish actor.
		Although born in London he holds an Irish passport as his father was the Irish-born poet Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate of England.
		His mother is Jill Balcon, an English Jewish actress, daughter of Sir Michael Balcon, head of Ealing Studios.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Daniel_Day-Lewis (574 words)

	Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: The Aileen and Michael Balcon Special Collection: an introduction to ...
		The Aileen and Michael Balcon papers began to be acquired in 1972, thanks to the generosity of the Balcon family to whom we are much indebted.
		Michael Balcon was born in 1896, about the same time as cinema itself.
		Balcon's contact with the American studios had been growing, and his five-year contract with Gaumont-British was due to expire in 1936.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2584/is_n4_v16/ai_19238744 (1416 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Michael Balcon became fully involved in 1938, when he was invited to join the board to take charge for all film production, Basil Dean having by then moved back into the theatre.
		It was the combination of Balcon and Cavalcanti which really led to the production of films which were recognisably "Ealing", combining a documentary style with the use of location shooting, and of these, none are better known than the comedies.
		The comedies are what Ealing will be best remembered for, and Balcon said that their comedy lay in how groups of characters, many unconventional, would run up against and eventually solve an apparently insoluble problem.
	mail.bris.ac.uk /~liserc/backgrd.html (644 words)

	Portrait of the producer Michael Balcon by Thomas Staedeli
		The producer Michael Balcon was the most important British producer who gave important impetus to the English film business.
		Michael Balcon produced the silent movies "Die Prinzessin und der Geiger" (25), "The Pleasure Garden" (25) with a still unknown director called Alfred Hitchcock, "The Rat" (25), "The Sea Urchin" (26), "Downhill" (27), "Der Geisterzug" (27), "The Wrecker" (28), "Dolores" (28) and "The First Born" (28).
		Michael Balcon was knight by the English king in 1948.
	www.cyranos.ch /spbalc-e.htm (301 words)

	Sir Michael Balcon and Ealing Studios
		Michael Balcon asks this in his 1969 autobiography.
		In its representations of courage, fortitude and consensual effort, the Ealing ethos was characterised by a low-key realism which was the legacy of 'the men who kept realism going on the screen': by these 'men', he meant the documentary filmmakers he praised in a lecture he gave to the Film Workers' Association in 1943.
		The worst that could be said of Balcon's achievement is that it was sometimes too suburbanly cosy; against this it may be said that he brought a new naturalness into British feature films.
	www.leninimports.com /michael_balcon.html (771 words)

	Michael Balcon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Sir Michael Balcon (May 19, 1896 - October 17, 1977) was aBritish film producer, best known for his work with the Ealing Studios.
		Born in Birmingham, England, he began his career infilm-making during the 1920s, producing his first film, Woman to Woman (starring Clive Brook) in 1923, and began working at Ealing in the early 1940s.
		Heworked with Alfred Hitchcock, Basil Dearden, Michael Relph and many other Britishgreats of the film world.
	www.therfcc.org /michael-balcon-108738.html (116 words)

	Britmovie - The Captive Heart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Michael Balcon's wife, Aileen, who was South-African born, had devoted the war years to working for the British Red Cross and had been closely involved in helping repatriated prisoners-of-war, he felt that there was good subject matter in a story about a group of Britons following their experiences from capture through to release.
		Ordinarily there would have been no chance of it succeeding as there was no similarity between the stories, but, as the novelist was on her deathbed, Balcon gallantly relented and ordered his title to be changed.
		Basil Dearden directed the film and the actors included Michael Redgrave, Basil Radford, Ralph Michael, Gordon Jackson, Derek Bond and Guy Middleton as officers, with Jack Warner, Jimmy Hanley and Mervyn Johns as other ranks, and Rachel Kempson, Jane Barrett, Gladys Henson and Rachel Thomas as the women waiting for their men to come home.
	www.britmovie.co.uk /studios/ealing/filmography/40.html (391 words)

	Hue and Cry
		Influenced by the British documentary movement, this discourse espoused understatement, the avoidance of excess, and the role of humour as a means of alleviating the material deprivations of post-war society.
		Balcon also hated “naturalism” perhaps because of its associations with the work of Emile Zola, Frank Norris, and Theodore Dreiser, and its perceived role in questioning the dominant norms of society.
		Balcon's type of realism and humour aimed to ignore the contradictions of post-war society and continue the ideologically manufactured discourse of the “People's War” (which never really existed in practice) into the post-war period (3).
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/cteq/05/35/hue_and_cry.html (1513 words)

	IMDb Name Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Michael Elias (I) (Writer, "Mary Tyler Moore" (1970))
		Michael Melia (I) (Art Department, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989))
		Michael Ashton (I) (Actor, A Nightmare On Elm Street: The Dream Child (1989))
	french.imdb.com /Name?Elias,+Michael (113 words)

	Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: 'Soldiers Three': the 'lost' Gaumont British imperial epic - Michael ...
		During the 1930s Britain's two leading film producers, Alexander Korda and Michael Balcon, both produced a trilogy of films celebrating the British Empire [1].
		Its story gives a fascinating insight into the workings of the film industry in its heyday, showing how long some projects remained on film company's rosters and how they were willing and able to construct new films around old footage.
		Gaumont British, for whom Balcon was head of production, acquired an option on nine of Rudyard Kipling's short stories featuring his 'soldiers three', Mulvaney, Ortheris and Learoyd.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2584/is_n1_v15/ai_16922285 (1445 words)

	MTV.com - Movies - Michael Balcon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Sir Michael Balcon was one of Great Britain's most illustrious film producers.
		He began his cinematic career in 1919 working as a regional distributor and produced his first film, Woman to Woman, in 1923.
		Balcon assigned young Alfred Hitchcock to serve as his art director, screenwriter, and assistant director; Sir Balcon also gave Hitchcock his first job as a director.
	www.mtv.com /movies/person/70807/bio.jhtml (214 words)

	The Jury \| 2005 \| British Independent Film Awards - BIFA
		This year's jury chair, Michael Kuhn was born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1949.
		He was awarded the Michael Balcon Award for services to British Cinema in 1999.
		Michael married Caroline in 1995 and has two sons.
	www.bifa.org.uk /archive_jury.php?ceremony=10 (1301 words)

	Moviefone: Movie Celebrities - Michael Balcon: MAIN
		Michael Balcon's career began in Birmingham in 1920, where,...
		Commercially and personally 1948 was a good year for Balcon Scott of the Antarctic starring...
		Rather than attempt a filmography for Michael Balcon, it seems more appropriate to list the key positions he held.
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	Sir Michael Balcon.1896-1977 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The above quote comes from Michael Balcon himself, and is taken from his 1969 autobiography,
		Sir Michael Balcon was born in Birmingham, England in
		Commercially and personally 1948 was a good year for Balcon Scott of the Antarctic starring John Mills was selected for the Royal Command Film Performance, and he received a knighthood from
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	Turner Classic Movies This Month Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Englishman Michael Balcon was chosen to head MGM's U.K. studio, and in the summer of 1937, shooting began on their first feature, A Yank at Oxford (1938), with Balcon producing and directing.
		Mayer didn't want her for the part in A Yank at Oxford, until the canny Balcon pointed out that since Leigh was English, the studio wouldn't have to pay her travel expenses.
		He berated Balcon within earshot of O'Sullivan and Leigh, and Balcon soon resigned.
	turnerclassicmovies.com /ThisMonth/Article/0,,62555\|62556\|62558,00.html (508 words)

	Alexander Mackendrick
		Films at Ealing were carefully guided under Michael Balcon, the head of production, who exercised authority with a trusting, liberal generosity that challenged the weak traditions of previous filmmaking.
		The studio was increasingly becoming known for its collegiate atmosphere and democratic, round table conferences that Balcon held, where ideas would be greeted with a kind of paternal affection.
		Producer Michael Balcon related the studio's sensibility to Henri Bergson's view of comedy as “the mechanical interruption of the normal flow of events”, but substituted 'arbitrary' or 'fanciful' in place of 'mechanical' (6).
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/03/mackendrick.html (4804 words)

	Daniel Day-Lewis pictures, photos, wallpapers, profile, and news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (born April 29, 1957) is a British actor.
		Although born in London he holds an Irish passport as his father was the Anglo-Irish poet Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate of England.
		His mother is Jill Balcon, actress daughter of Sir Michael Balcon, head of Ealing Studios.
	www.entertainrings.com /actors/d/daniel-day-lewis (537 words)

	Amazon.co.uk - Query Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		El Balcon Des Adios [IMPORT] [Audio CD] Vieja Trova Santiagu...
		Balcon, Ernest; et al: Twenty Years of British Films 1925-19...
		Balcon M., Blyton W. Et Al.: English Language And Literat...
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	Turner Classic Movies This Month Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Although England's Ealing Studios produced a range of films in various genres, the company is best known for the witty, irreverent comedies made between the late 40s and mid-50s under the stewardship of production chief Sir Michael Balcon.
		Such films as Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), The Man in the White Suit (1951), and The Ladykillers (1955) - all starring Alec Guinness - were popular worldwide and stand out even today for their typically British brand of wry, self-deprecating satire.
		Hatton-Jones), Basil Radford (Gregg), Michael Hordern (Inspector Bashford).
	tcm.tv /ThisMonth/Article/0,,12634\|12637\|12646,00.html (689 words)

	Michael Balcon: The Pursuit of British Cinema - BROWN, GEOFF & KARDISH, LAURENCE. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Michael Balcon: The Pursuit of British Cinema - BROWN, GEOFF & KARDISH, LAURENCE.
		Slightly better than very good condition.1st ed Large format.
		A review of the work of Michael Balcon the film director.
	www.antiqbook.co.uk /boox/ste/559030.shtml (74 words)

	'King' returns with 4 BAFAs; 'Master' commanding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		All the principal winners were on hand to receive their awards except for Murray and Weir.
		Working Title Films, responsible for such hits as "Notting Hill" and "Love Actually," was awarded the Michael Balcon Award for outstanding contribution to cinema.
		The awards show at the Odeon Leicester Square was delayed because of a technical hitch.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2091616 (685 words)

	Michael Relph (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Michael Relph's career in films began in 1933 working as an assistant art director with Michael Balcon who was working as an art direcror for MGM-British and Warner Brothers.
		Sometimes credited as a joint director with Dearden, DAVY made in 1957 is regarded as his directorial debut.
		Relph succeeded Michael Balcon as chairman of the British Film Institute Production Board in 1972, following Balcon's retirement.
	theoscarsite.com /whoswho3/relph_m.htm (248 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - Nicholas Nickleby
		To make an entertaining film of this Dickens classic needed more courage than producer Michael Balcon shows.
		He should have thought first of the millions who care little or nothing whether any particular character or episode is missing as long as the picture does no violence to the author and is entertaining.
		Casting any Dickens film is an unenviable chore and Balcon has made as good a job as most producers.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117793494?categoryid=31&cs=1 (362 words)

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