Maurice Cowan Explained

Maurice Cowan (1891-1974) was a British writer and producer. He produced the first films of Norman Wisdom.^[1] He disliked working with Wisdom so much on One Good Turn he vowed never to work with the comedian again.^[2]

He was editor of The Picture Goer when he came up with an idea for what became the film I Live in Grosvenor Square. He sent it to Herbert Wilcox would bought it.^[3]

Select credits

• A Yank in London (1945) aka I Live in Grosvenor Square - story
• A Voice in the Night (1946) aka Wanted for Murder - add dialogue
• Springtime (1946) aka Spring Song - story
• Meet Me at Dawn (1947) - dialogue
• Murder on Monday (1952) aka Home at Seven - producer
• Derby Day (1952) - producer
• Turn the Key Softly (1953) - producer, writer
• Trouble in Store (1953) - producer, writer
• One Good Turn (1955) - producer, writer
• Man of the Moment (1955) - story
• Babes in the Wood on Ice (1956) - book
• The Gypsy and the Gentleman (1958) - producer
• Operation Amsterdam (1959) - producer
• The Men from Room 13 (1959–61) - research
• Watch It, Sailor! (1961) - producer
• The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970) - series ideas

External links

• • Maurice Cowan at the British Film Institute

Notes and References

1. News: Sea drama in running for award . . 23,768 . Melbourne . 30 July 1953 . 11 August 2020 . 19 . National Library of Australia.
2. News: Our "Zither Girl " had no hope . . 2924 . Western Australia . 19 December 1954 . 11 August 2020 . 39 . National Library of Australia.
3. News: She met a Yank in Grosvenor Square . . VI . 37 . Sydney . 29 July 1945 . 11 August 2020 . 35 . National Library of Australia.