by Sasha (Alexander Stewart)
bromide print, 1920s
NPG x28334
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1942
NPG x11275
by Godfrey Argent
bromide print, 17 December 1969
NPG x166006
Diners at Denham Studios Restaurant
by Anthony Wysard
watercolour and pencil, published 1937
NPG D312
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Caroline Ferguson
05 June 2018, 11:26
Born in Croydon to a commercial traveller - Harding Dean; Basil married Esther van Gruisen with whom he had 2 children, the eldest of which - Winton, became a musicologist. He directed Korda's 21 Days in 1940, and also became head of ENSA - the government sponsored services entertainment body.
21 Days was shelved for 2 years, reputedly because it starred Vivian Leigh whose role in the epic Gone With the Wind had just been released, but the film's subject was about a murderer who got away with it - a controversial subject at the best of times...