Knowles, Dorothy, 1906-2010
Dorothy Knowles 28 March 1906, Johannesburg, South Africa – 10 November 2010, London; moved to England at early age; as a child, Knowles danced alongside Marie Lloyd and Lupino Lane. She was also a fencer, and, in 1936, was the founder of the Liverpool University Fencing Club; expert on French theater; retired from her position at Liverpool University in 1984; historians of British cinema for her 1934 book The Censor, the Drama and the Film, in which she criticised the British Board of Film Censors for what she regarded as unaccountable political censorship. In 1989 she published a study of the work of the playwright Armand Gatti
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Name Entry: Knowles, Dorothy, 1906-2010
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Name Entry: Knowles, Dorothy, M.A., 1906-2010
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Name Entry: Knowles, Diana, 1906-2010
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