Showing posts with label No Room at the Inn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label No Room at the Inn. Show all posts
Friday, February 13, 2026

John Osborne, Desert Island Discs and No Room at the Inn

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I couldn't find room for it in my Lion & Unicorn article about the film No Room at the Inn , but I did blog here about my discovery ...
Thursday, January 09, 2025

A post for Lion & Unicorn: No Room at the Inn (1948) and the death of Dennis O'Neill

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I've written a post for Lion & Unicorn about the 1948 film No Room at the Inn, which starred this blog's hero Freda Jackson. The...
Saturday, July 20, 2024

You can watch the film No Room at the Inn (1948) online

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Good news: you can watch the 1948 film No Room at the Inn online. And it's the 90-minute version that Talking Pictures TV has shown - t...
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Thursday, October 26, 2023

"Like something out of a zoo": Freda Jackson on Errol Flynn

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Embed from Getty Images I've found a 2018 article about Freda Jackson in the Nottingham Post . It's headlined 'The railway porte...
Friday, September 08, 2023

10 British films that should be better known

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Here are some notes on 10 British films that are not as well known as I think they ought to be. It's not a top 10 - they are in chronolo...
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Monday, May 15, 2023

I've found another fan of No Room at the Inn

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It can be difficult to keep all your rabbit holes in the air, and it's high time we went back to No Room at the Inn . This is the film t...
Monday, February 06, 2023

Freda Jackson and Stratford Johns in Serjeant Musgrave's Dance

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When I saw the cast of this 1961 television play included two Liberal England heroes - Freda Jackson and Stratford Johns - I had to have the...
Saturday, November 26, 2022

How No Room at the Inn launched John Osborne's theatre career

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If you thought you'd heard the last of No Room at the Inn, you were mistaken. This was the play by Joan Temple that, like Agatha Christi...
Thursday, October 27, 2022

How theatre audiences reacted to Freda Jackson's performance in No Room at the Inn

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Back to Freda Jackson, who played the villainous Mrs Voray in Joan Temple's play No Room at the Inn and also in the subsequent film. The...
Monday, October 10, 2022

August Strindberg and Gravesend star in Trivial Fact of the Day

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The Swedish dramatist August Strindberg once lived in Gravesend. That's our Trivial Fact of the Day taken care of. I discovered it throu...
Friday, June 24, 2022

A false story about the death of Dennis O'Neill in 1945

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There's a false story about the death of the foster child Dennis O'Neill, at the age of 12, at a farm under The Stiperstones in Shro...
Friday, June 03, 2022

Now you can watch No Room at the Inn (1948)

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You know that film I'm always going on about? Well a version of it has appeared on YouTube. I say "a version" because this one...
Saturday, April 30, 2022

No Room at the Inn was inspired by the death of Dennis O'Neill

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Agatha Christie's record-breaking play The Mousetrap, as a moving BBC Radio documentary reveals, has its roots in the death of the fost...
Thursday, February 10, 2022

Julian Bird on becoming an actor in his sixties

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Embed from Getty Images At the end of last year this blog discovered Freda Jackson and Henry Bird - Northampton's power couple of the a...
Monday, December 07, 2020

Freda Jackson and Henry Bird's son was in EastEnders

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I thought I had done with Freda Jackson, Henry Bird and No Room at the Inn , but there's more. Freda Jackson and Henry Bird had a son ca...
Saturday, December 05, 2020

Freda Jackson and Henry Bird: Northampton's mighty artistic couple

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Writing about Freda Jackson , the star of both the play No Room at the Inn and the film made of it, I suggested her husband, the artist Henr...
Friday, December 04, 2020

No Room at the Inn and The Fallen Idol

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I blogged about the 1948 film No Room at the Inn the other day. Even when I was watching it, I noticed parallels between it and a better-kn...
Monday, November 30, 2020

Freda Jackson and No Room at the Inn

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Talking Pictures TV continues to be a national treasure. A couple of weekend ago screened an extraordinary British film from 1948. Based on...
Monday, July 20, 2020

Joan Dowling: A Star in the Making (1947)

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Praising the Rank and File British cinema blog last week I mentioned the British actress Joan Dowling, who took her own life at the age of ...