One of a large group of Hungarian refugees who found refuge in England in the 1930s, Sir Alexander Korda was the first British film producer to receive a knighthood. He was a major, if controversial, figure and acted as a guiding force behind the British film industry of the 1930s and continued to influence British films until his death in 1956. He learned his trade by working in studios in Austria, Germany and America and was a crafty and flamboyant businessman. He started his production company, London Films, in 1933 and one of its first films The Private Life of Henry VIII. (1933), received an Oscar nomination as best picture and won the Best Actor Oscar for its star, Charles Laughton. Helped by his brothers Zoltan Korda (director) and Vincent Korda (art director) and other expatriate Hungarians, London Films produced some of Britain's finest films (even if they weren't all commercial successes). Korda's willingness to experiment and be daring allowed the flowering of such talents as Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and gave early breaks to people such as Laurence Olivier, David Lean and Carol Reed. Korda sold his library to television in the 1950s, thus allowing London Films' famous logo of Big Ben to become familiar to a new generation of film enthusiasts.
生于英国约郡斯卡巴勒。父母本想让继承家业，可他从小就喜欢演戏。一战服役归来后加入业余剧团，后来终于突破家庭的限制，进入皇家戏剧艺术学院学习。在他的导师科米萨叶斯基的培养下逐步成熟，最后在其剧作《莉莉奥姆》中挑起了大梁。此后，他在西伦西区成功地演出一些剧目。1931年他...
原名伊丽莎白·沙利文，生于英国。少年时曾随美国舞蹈家伊莎多拉．邓肯的剧团在巴黎表演舞蹈。1927年首影，两年后与查尔斯．劳顿结婚，1934年一起来到好莱坞。她扮演的角色范围很广。曾因《到马厩去》（1949）和《控方证人》（1958）两次获得奥斯卡最佳女配角金像奖提名，并以《控方证人》获取957年最佳女配角金球奖。著有回忆录《查尔斯和我》。
British character actor of wry charm, equally at home in amused or strait-laced characters. A native of Bourton-on-the-Water in Gloucestershire, he attended Marlborough College and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. His stage debut came in 1922, and by 1925 he was a busy London actor. He married actress Blanche Glynne (real name: Blanche Hope Aitken) and in 1932 toured South Africa in plays. Alleged to have been spotted by George Cukor during a performance in Aldritch, Hyde-White (with or without Cukor's help) made his film debut in 1934.
