Kathleen Butler

Kathleen Butler
Occupation	Screenwriter
Years active	1934-1949 (film)

Kathleen Butler was a British screenwriter who worked on the scripts of over forty films. She also worked as assistant director on four films. Butler was part of a group of women given increasing control over the writing of scripts in British cinema of the time, writing The Temptress (1949) alone.^[1] She worked for much of her career for the production company Butcher's Film Service.^{[2] [3] [4]}

Selected filmography

Screenwriter

• Old Faithful (1935)
• The Happy Family (1936)
• A Touch of the Moon (1936)
• The Heirloom Mystery (1936)
• Not So Dusty (1936)
• Strange Adventures of Mr. Smith (1937)
• Busman's Holiday (1937)
• His Lordship Regrets (1938)
• Miracles Do Happen (1939)
• Facing the Music (1941)
• Sheepdog of the Hills (1941)
• Front Line Kids (1942)
• Gert and Daisy's Weekend (1942)
• Gert and Daisy Clean Up (1942)
• Rose of Tralee (1942)
• Variety Jubilee (1943)
• I'll Walk Beside You (1943)
• My Ain Folk (1945)
• For You Alone (1945)
• Calling Paul Temple (1948)
• The Story of Shirley Yorke (1948)
• The Temptress (1949)

References

1. Harper p.177
2. "Kathleen ButlerBiography". fandango.com. Retrieved 6 March 2014.
3. "actor guides: bios & class information". theactorsguidetoeverything.com. Retrieved 6 March 2014.
4. Handelman, Jay. "Behind the Scenes: Considering the theater world without critics". arts.heraldtribune.com. Retrieved 6 March 2014.

Bibliography

• Harper, Sue. Women in British Cinema: Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2000.

External links

• Kathleen Butler at the Internet Movie Database