A Mother's Confession
A Mother's Confession is a 1915 silent film written and directed by Ivan Abramson, and starring Christine Mayo and Austin Webb.
Robert Hamer
Robert Hamer( 31 March 1911 – 4 December 1963) was a British film director and screenwriter best known for the 1949 black comedy" Kind Hearts and Coronets".
Ivan Abramson
Ivan Abramson (1869 – September 15, 1934) was a director of American silent films active in the 1910s and 1920s.
Abramson emigrated to the United States from Russia in the 1880s and soon became involved in the Jewish newspaper field.
In 1905, he founded an opera company.
In 1914, he founded Ivan Film Productions to produce silent films, with the "Sins of the Parents" as his first release.
In 1917, after success with pictures including "One Law for Both" and "Enlighten Thy Daughter", Abramson partnered with William Randolph Hearst to form the Graphic Film Corporation.
Abramson's films feature melodramas with titillating titles such as "Forbidden Fruit" (1915) and "A Child for Sale" (1920), and sexual hygiene films such as "The Sex Lure" (1916) and "Enlighten Thy Daughter" (1917).
Abramson's alliance ended with the 1919 release of "The Echo of Youth".
In 1923, Abramson and Sidney M. Goldin directed "East and West", filmed in Austria and starring Molly Picon, and which had English and Yiddish subtitles.
Abramson died on September 15, 1934 in New York at Mount Sinai Hospital, survived by his wife Liza Einhorn.
Barnacle Bill (1957 film)
Barnacle Bill( released in the US as All at Sea) is a 1957 Ealing Studios comedy film, starring Alec Guinness.
He plays an unsuccessful Royal Navy officer, and six of his maritime ancestors.
This was the final Ealing comedy as well as the last film Guinness made for Ealing Studios, although some sources list Davy( film) as the final Ealing comedy.
By coincidence, his first Ealing success was" Kind Hearts and Coronets"( 1949), in which he also played multiple roles.
The film was written by the screenwriter of" Passport to Pimlico".
William Kellner
William Kellner( 30 July 1900 – May, 1996) was an Austrian- born art director who worked primarily on British films in the 1940s and 1950s.
He began his career as a draughtsman working for Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger on their films" A Canterbury Tale"( 1944) and" I Know Where I'm Going!"( 1945) and on David Lean's" Brief Encounter" in 1946.
He was also art director on two Ealing Comedies," Kind Hearts and Coronets"( 1949) and" the Lavender Hill Mob"( 1951).
Kellner was nominated for two Oscars, in 1949 for Basil Dearden's" Saraband for Dead Lovers" and in 1959 for Joseph L. Mankiewicz's adaptation of Tennessee Williams'" Suddenly Last Summer".
He worked on two Anthony Asquith all- star productions," The V.I.P.s" and" The Yellow Rolls- Royce", both in 1964, before retiring in 1965.
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Kind Hearts and Coronets is a 1949 British black comedy film.
It features Dennis Price, Joan Greenwood, Valerie Hobson and Alec Guinness; Guinness plays nine characters.
The plot is loosely based on the novel" Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal"( 1907) by Roy Horniman.
It concerns Louis D'Ascoyne Mazzini, the son of a woman disowned by her aristocratic family for marrying out of her social class.
After her death, Louis decides to take revenge on the family, and to take the dukedom by murdering the eight people ahead of him in succession to the title.
Michael Balcon, the head of Ealing Studios and the producer of" Kind Hearts and Coronets", appointed Robert Hamer as director.
Hamer was interested in the film, and thought it an interesting project with possibilities of using the English language in a unique way in the film.
Filming took place from September 1948 at Leeds Castle and other locations in Kent, and at Ealing Studios.
The themes of class and sexual repression run through the film, particularly love between classes.
" Kind Hearts and Coronets" was released on 13 June 1949 in the United Kingdom, and was well received by the critics.
It has continued to receive favourable reviews over the years, and in 1999 it was number six in the British Film Institute's rating of the Top 100 British films.
In 2005 it was included in" Time" s list of the top 100 films since 1923.
Dennis Price
Dennis Price( born Dennistoun Franklyn John Rose- Price; 23 June 1915 – 6 October 1973) was an English actor, best remembered for his role as Louis Mazzini in the film" Kind Hearts and Coronets"( 1949) and for his portrayal of the omniscient valet Jeeves in 1960s television adaptations of P. G. Wodehouse's stories.
Norman Priggen
Norman Priggen( July 7, 1924 in London – December 1999 in Uckfield, East Sussex) was a British film producer and assistant film director.
He was an assistant director on" Kind Hearts and Coronets"( 1949).
As a producer he is best remembered for his work with Joseph Losey in the 1960s and early 1970s.
Among his production credits are" The Cruel Sea"( 1953)," The Professionals"( 1960)," Payroll"( 1961)," The Servant"( 1963)," King& Country"( 1964)," Accident"( 1967)," Secret Ceremony"( 1968)," The Go- Between"( 1971)," Black Gunn"( 1972)," The Assassination of Trotsky"( 1972)," Tales That Witness Madness"( 1973), and" Freddie as F.R. O.7"( 1992).
John Penrose (actor)
( Derek) John Penrose( 5 May 1914 – 22 May 1983) was a British actor.
After graduating from RADA in 1936, he made his London stage debut the following year in" Old Music" at the St. James' Theatre.
His best- known role was in the 1949 film" Kind Hearts and Coronets", where he played Lionel, Sibella's dull husband whom Louis was accused of murdering.
Joan Greenwood
Joan Mary Waller Greenwood (4 March 1921 – 28 February 1987) was an English actress.
Her husky voice, coupled with her slow, precise elocution, was her trademark.
She is perhaps best remembered for her role as Sibella in "Kind Hearts and Coronets" (1949).
Her other film appearances included "The Man in the White Suit" (1951), "The Importance of Being Earnest" (1952), "Stage Struck" (1958), "Tom Jones" (1963) and "Little Dorrit" (1987).

Question: Which film has the director who died first, Kind Hearts And Coronets or A Mother'S Confession?