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The History of British Cinema: 1959 |
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Stage and screen actor Alec Guinness receives a knighthood in the Queen's New Year's List. [ADD] |
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The premiere takes place of Tony Richardson’s adaptation of John Osborne’s play Look Back in Anger. Richard Burton stars as Jimmy Porter, the archetypal ‘angry young man’ opposite Mary Ure and Claire Bloom as wife and lover respectively. [ADD] |
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Ray Austin, Cary Grant's former chauffeur makes a failed suicide attempt after being implicated in the divorce of the actor and his wife Betsy Drake. Grant claims Austin was his wife’s lover. [ADD] |
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Actress Kay Kendall, wife of actor Rex Harrison, dies of myeloid leukaemia in London at the age of 33. [ADD] |
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– The British Film Academy merges with the Guild of Television Producers and Directors to form the Society of Film and Television Arts (SFTA). [ADD] |
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Other Key British Films of 1959 |
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Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (Roy Boulting, Jeffrey Dell) [ADD] |
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I’m All Right, Jack (John Boulting) [ADD] |
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The History of Cinema: 1959 |
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