The Loves of Joanna Godden

The Loves of Joanna Godden
UK release poster by John Minton^[1]
Directed by	Charles Frend
Produced by	Michael Balcon
Written by	H.E. Bates Angus MacPhail
Based on	the novel Joanna Godden by Sheila Kaye-Smith
Starring	Googie Withers Jean Kent John McCallum Derek Bond
Music by	Ralph Vaughan Williams
Cinematography	Douglas Slocombe
Edited by	Michael Truman
Distributed by	Ealing Studios
Release dates	9 June 1947 (1947-06-09)
Running time	89 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

The Loves of Joanna Godden is a 1947 British historical drama film directed by Charles Frend and produced by Michael Balcon.^[2] The screenplay was written by H. E. Bates and Angus MacPhail from the novel by Sheila Kaye-Smith. It stars Googie Withers, Jean Kent, John McCallum, Derek Bond, Chips Rafferty and Sonia Holm.^[3] Some scenes were shot by director Robert Hamer when Frend was ill, though he was uncredited. The music was composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams.^[4]

Plot

In Edwardian Britain, a young woman has three suitors who seek her hand in marriage.

When Joanna Godden's father died, he bequeathed her a farm on the Romney Marsh in Kent. Joanna is determined to run the farm herself. Her neighbour Arthur Alce (John McCallum), laughs at her ambitions, but loves her. Choosing a new shepherd, she allows physical attraction to a man to overcome her judgment as a farmer and her scheme for cross-breeding sheep is unsuccessful. Her wealth gone, she turns to Arthur Alce for help - but not love. That she accepts from Martin Trevor (Derek Bond), a visitor from the world beyond the Marsh. But on the eve of their marriage Martin dies.^[4]

Cast

Googie Withers as Joanna Godden
Jean Kent as Ellen Godden
John McCallum as Arthur Alce
Derek Bond as Martin Trevor
Henry Mollison as Harry Trevor
Chips Rafferty as Collard
Sonia Holm as Louise
Josephine Stuart as Grace Wickens
Frederick Piper as Isaac Turk
Douglas Jefferies as Huggett

and the people of Romney Marsh.

References

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↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039587/
1 2 1948 Daily Mail Film Award Annual

External links

The Loves of Joanna Godden at the Internet Movie Database
The Loves of Joanna Godden at BFI Screenonline
Review of film at Variety

Films directed by Charles Frend

The Big Blockade (1942)
The Foreman Went to France (1942)
San Demetrio London (1943)
Johnny Frenchman (1945)
The Loves of Joanna Godden (1947)
Scott of the Antarctic (1948)
A Run for Your Money (1949)
The Magnet (1950)
The Cruel Sea (1953)
Lease of Life (1954)
The Long Arm (1956)
Barnacle Bill (1957)
Cone of Silence (1960)
Girl on Approval (1961)
Torpedo Bay (1963)
The Sky Bike (1967)

Films produced by Michael Balcon

1920s	The Rat (1925) The Sea Urchin (1926) The Triumph of the Rat (1926) The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1926) The Mountain Eagle (1926) Blighty (1927) Downhill (1927) The Rolling Road (1927) Easy Virtue (1927) One of the Best (1927) The Vortex (1927) A South Sea Bubble (1928) A Light Woman (1928) The First Born (1928) The Wrecker (1929) The Return of the Rat (1929) City of Play (1929) Taxi for Two (1929) Woman to Woman (1929)

1930s	Jack's the Boy (1932) I Was a Spy (1933) It's a Boy (1933) Friday the Thirteenth (1933) Princess Charming (1934) Evergreen (1934) Red Ensign (1934) Along Came Sally (1934) The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) Car of Dreams (1935) First a Girl (1935) Me and Marlborough (1935) The 39 Steps (1935) Stormy Weather (1935) Things Are Looking Up (1935) The First Offence (1936) Tudor Rose (1936) The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936) Secret Agent (1936) Where There's a Will (1936) Windbag the Sailor (1936) Doctor Syn (1937) A Yank at Oxford (1938) The Gaunt Stranger (1938) The Four Just Men (1939) Cheer Boys Cheer (1939)

1940s	Let George Do It! (1940) The Proud Valley (1940) The Ghost of St. Michael's (1941) Ships with Wings (1941) Turned Out Nice Again (1941) The Big Blockade (1942) Went the Day Well? (1942) The Black Sheep of Whitehall (1942) My Learned Friend (1943) The Foreman Went to France (1942) Undercover (1943) The Bells Go Down (1943) San Demetrio London (1943) Nine Men (1943) For Those in Peril (1944) Champagne Charlie (1944) The Halfway House (1944) Fiddlers Three (1944) Dead of Night (1945) Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945) They Came to a City (1945) Johnny Frenchman (1945) The Captive Heart (1946) The Overlanders (1946) Hue and Cry (1947) It Always Rains on Sunday (1947) The Loves of Joanna Godden (1947) The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947) Frieda (1947) Against the Wind (1948) Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948) Scott of the Antarctic (1948) Passport to Pimlico (1949) Whisky Galore! (1949) A Run for Your Money (1949) Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

1950s	Cage of Gold (1950) The Blue Lamp (1950) The Magnet (1950) The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) Pool of London (1951) The Man in the White Suit (1951) Mandy (1952) The Cruel Sea (1953) The Ladykillers (1953) The Maggie (1954) The Night My Number Came Up (1955) Touch and Go (1955) The Long Arm (1956) Barnacle Bill (1957) The Man in the Sky (1957) The Shiralee (1957) Dunkirk (1958) The Siege of Pinchgut (1959) The Scapegoat (1959) The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961)

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