Kathleen Butler

Kathleen Butler
Occupation	Screenwriter
Years active	1934-1949 (film)

Kathleen Butler was a British screenwriter who worked on the scripts of over forty films. She also worked as assistant director on four films. Butler was part of a group of women given increasing control over the writing of scripts in British cinema of the time, writing The Temptress (1949) alone. She worked for much of her career for the production company Butcher's Film Service.

Selected filmography

Screenwriter

• Old Faithful (1935)
• The Happy Family (1936)
• A Touch of the Moon (1936)
• The Heirloom Mystery (1936)
• Not So Dusty (1936)
• Strange Adventures of Mr. Smith (1937)
• Busman's Holiday (1937)
• His Lordship Regrets (1938)
• Miracles Do Happen (1939)
• Facing the Music (1941)
• Sheepdog of the Hills (1941)
• Front Line Kids (1942)
• Gert and Daisy's Weekend (1942)
• Gert and Daisy Clean Up (1942)
• Rose of Tralee (1942)
• Variety Jubilee (1943)
• I'll Walk Beside You (1943)
• My Ain Folk (1945)
• For You Alone (1945)
• Calling Paul Temple (1948)
• The Story of Shirley Yorke (1948)
• The Temptress (1949)

Bibliography

• Harper, Sue. Women in British Cinema: Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2000.

External links

• Kathleen Butler at the Internet Movie Database