Miranda

Miranda (1948)

Miranda Has Everything!

A young married physician discovers a mermaid, and gives into her request to be taken to see London. Comedy and romantic entanglements ensue.

Date of release
1948-04-06
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (27)
Runtime
1h 20m
Genres
Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Director
Ken Annakin
Collection
Miranda Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

Miranda is a 1948 British fantasy comedy film directed by Ken Annakin and written by Peter Blackmore, who also wrote the play of the same name from which the film was adapted. The film stars Glynis Johns, Googie Withers, Griffith Jones, Margaret Rutherford, John McCallum and David Tomlinson. Denis Waldock provided additional dialogue. Music for the film was played by the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Muir Mathieson. The sound director was B. C. Sewell.

Production

The film was put into production hurriedly in order to beat Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid to the screen. The initial director was Michael Chorlton. According to Ken Annakin, filming had been going for less than two weeks when Chorlton was fired by the head of the studio Gainsborough Pictures, Sydney Box, who was unhappy with the director's handling of the material, particularly his over-use of wide-angle, deep focus camera techniques.

Annakin said the "script was full of well-tried, funny fishy jokes" and "was inevitably going to be a stagey-type movie." He says he "despised" Griffith Jones "as a man" because he was difficult to deal with, "always trying to score over the other actors." Annakin says he developed a crush on Glynis Johns during filming and she tried to seduce him one night (she was married but her husband Anthony Forwood was gay) - but he refused because he did…

The opening credits include the line "Tail by Dunlop". All underwater scenes were shot with a stunt double. Joan Hebden wore the tail by Dunlop. Johns stated in later interviews that the rubber tail was very buoyant, which caused problems as it tended to keep her head under the water.

There was location filming in London and Cornwall.

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