The Seventh Veil (1946)

Neé Muriel Baker in Tolworth, Surrey, England, she started out in 1927 as a script girl for director Anthony Asquith. She wrote her first script for the film ALIBI INN in 1935. That same year she married Sydney Box. They teamed up to write dozens of one-act plays. In 1939, Sydney founded a motion picture company which produced scores of propaganda and training films for the British government during WW II. After the war, he established himself as one of Britain's top producers and collaborated with his wife on the screenplays of most of his films. In the early 1950s, Muriel turned director (15 films), and Sydney continued as occasional co-scriptwriter. Their collaboration ended in 1958, when Sydney became a British TV executive. They divorced in 1969, and the following year Muriel married Lord Gardiner. In 1974 she published an autobiography, Odd Woman Out.  Writing (Original Screenplay) 1946: THE SEVENTH VEIL (w. Sydney Box) 1 nomination, 1 Award