Ann Veronica (film)

Ann Veronica is a 1952 British TV version of the 1909 H. G. Wells novel of the same name.[1]

Ann Veronica
Directed byCampbell Logan
Screenplay byRonald Gow
Based onnovel by HG Welles
StarringMargaret Lockwood
Release date
1952
CountryEngland
LanguageEnglish

It stars Margaret Lockwood. Lockwood was going to make a film version of this book in 1950 after Highly Dangerous.[2][3] The project kept being delayed.[4]

She made it after Trent's Last Case. She wrote "I had already developed a great liking for televised plays and this one was an interesting part."[5]

The production was well received.[6]

In 1964 the novel was adapted into a four-part BBC series Ann Veronica starring Rosemary Nicols.

References
  1. Vagg, Stephen (29 January 2020). "Why Stars Stop Being Stars: Margaret Lockwood". Filmink.
  2. "Break For Rank Star". Brisbane Telegraph (LAST RACE ed.). 11 November 1950. p. 19. Retrieved 29 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. "Films & Film People". The Mirror. 27 (1482). Western Australia. 14 October 1950. p. 15. Retrieved 29 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. "Hollywood Invades The Festival (From London)". The Sydney Morning Herald (35, 406). 14 June 1951. p. 12. Retrieved 29 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. Lockwood, Margaret (1955). Lucky Star: The Autobiography of Margaret Lockwood. Odhams Press Limited. p. 163.
  6. "FILM PAGE". The Mail. 43 (2, 180). Adelaide. 20 March 1954. p. 4 (SUNDAY MAGAZINE). Retrieved 29 September 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
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