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form y separately published work icon Wherever She Goes single work   film/TV  
Adaptation of Prelude C. H. Abrahall , 1947 single work children's fiction
Issue Details: First known date: 1951... 1951 Wherever She Goes
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Film Details - Faun Film Production , 1951

Producers:

Eric Williams (Executive Producer)

Production Companies:

Faun Film Production

Director of Photography:

George Heath

Editors:

Brereton Porter

Production Designers:

Dudley Barr
Charles Woolveridge

Composer:

Sefton Daly
Clive Douglas

Music:

Ernest Irving (Music Director)

Cast:

Suzanne Parrett (Eileen Joyce), Muriel Steinbeck (Mrs Joyce), Nigel Lovell (Will Joyce), John Wiltshire (Daniel), George Wallace (Stage Manager), Tim Drysdale (John Joyce), Rex Dawe (Mr James), Syd Chambers, Sefton Daly (Piano Player), Jacqueline Cat (Nun), Eileen Joyce (herself).

Release Dates:

6 July 1951 (Rialto Theatre, London, England). Australian premiere, 7 September 1951 (Hobart). The film was given a limited release in New York in 1953.

Notes:

1. Assistant Director: David Moore
2. George Wallace played the minor role of a flustered stage manager.
3. Michael S. Gordon, an English documentary filmmaker, based the narrative on Lady Clare Hoskyns-Abrahall's novel Prelude (1947), and shot several of the scenes on location in Kalgoorlie. However, most of the film (including the Tasmanian bush) was filmed indoors at Sydney's Pagewood studios. Although Wherever She Goes failed to ignite public interest, it is significant in one respect: having engaged the aging Australian comic George Wallace to play a small part as a flustered stage manager. Because the production was financed mostly by the British film company Ealing, it received its premiere in London, some two months prior to the Australian release.
4. Further reference: Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper. Australian Film 1900-1977, A Guide to Feature Film Production (1980), p.277.

Subjects:
  • ca. 1908-1930
Settings:
  • Tasmania,
  • Western Australia,
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