Appendix 1: Synopses of films
overseen her professional training.
The Slipper and the Rose
Bryan Forbes, Paradine, UK 1976.
Margaret Lockwood; Richard Cha .mberlain; Gemma Craven; Kenneth
More; Michael Hordern; Edith Evans.
Lavish musical production of the Cinderella story.
A Song to Remember
Charles Vidor, Columbia, US 1944.
Cornel Wilde; Merle Oberon; Paul Muni; George Coulouris; George
Macready.
Unexpectedly popular Hollywood musical biopic about the life of
Chopin and his relationship with George Sand.
South Pacific
Joshua Logan, Magna, US 1958.
Rossano Brazzi; Mitzi Gaynor; Ray Walston; John Kerr; Frances
Nuyen; Juanita Hall.
Musical set against the background of the US∕Japanese conflict
in the second world war. In 1943 a young US Navy nurse (Gaynor)
falls in love with a locally resident middle-aged Frenchman
(Brazzi) who becomes a war hero.
Spellbound
Alfred Hitchcock, David O Selznick, US 1945.
Ingrid Bergman; Gregory Peck; Leo G Carroll; Michael Che kov.
Bergman is a psychiatrist; she falls in love with her amnesiac
patient who believes himself to be a murderer.
A Stitch in Time
Robert Asner, Rank, UK 1963.
Norman Wisdom; Edward Chapman; Jerry Desmonde; Jeanette Storke.
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