Dinah Shurey

Career

In 1930, Shurey sued Film Weekly magazine for its hostile treatment of her film The Last Post and the assertion by the magazine"s columnist Nerina Shute that women were incapable of directing films. Number prints of The Last Post are known to survive and the film is one of the top ten films on the British Film Institute"s most wanted list of lost British films. Paul Rotha compared Shurey to Harry Bruce Woolfe, calling her "an upstanding Empire loyalist" who "had made some quite atrocious films".

Achievements

• Founder of Britannia Films and her own distribution company Showman Films, Shurey was the only female British film director of her day. Shurey won the case but by 1934 she was bankrupt.