Ealing Studios
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Ealing Studios

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Ealing Studios
Barnett Freedman
Françoise Rosay, Tom Walls and Patricia Roc in 'Johnny Frenchman' signed, 1945, pen and black ink heightened with white original artwork, signed and inscribed by the artist on the mount first Drawing. To Michael Balcon from Barnett Freedman
7x18½in. (17.7x47cm.) framed
Literature
BARR, Charles Ealing Studios, London: Cameron & Tayleur Books Ltd. 1980, p.75
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Lot Essay

Johnny Frenchman, Ealing Studios, 1945 directed by Charles Frend, written by T.E.B. Clarke. The film shot in the Cornish fishing village of Mevagissey, disguised as Brittany, told the story of rivalry between the Cornish and Breton fishing communities which prevented the course of true love from running smoothly. As Charles Barr notes, the film's initial message: 'English and French were'nt never meant to mix' - gives way to inter-marriage and the affirmation by the same speaker that 'we are all just people'...the logical extension of Ealing's vision of a benevolent community..

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