Editing Muriel Box (section)

{{Short description|British film director and writer (1905–1991)}}
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{{Infobox person
| honorific_prefix = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name             = The Lady Gardiner
| image            = Director_Muriel_Box.jpg
| caption          = 
| birth_name       = Violette Muriel Baker
| birth_date       = {{birth date|df=yes|1905|9|22}}
| birth_place      = [[New Malden]], Surrey, England, UK
| death_date       = {{death date and age|df=yes|1991|5|18|1905|9|22}}
| death_place      = [[Hendon]], London, England, UK
| occupation       = Director, writer, screenwriter
| spouses          = [[Sydney Box]] (1935–1969; divorced)<br>[[Gerald Gardiner, Baron Gardiner]] (1970–1990; his death)
| children         = 1 daughter
}}

'''Violette Muriel Box, Baroness Gardiner''', (22 September 1905 – 18 May 1991) was an English screenwriter and director,<ref name="BFI">{{cite web |title=Muriel Box |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f40d561 |publisher=[[British Film Institute]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308191525/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f40d561 |archive-date=8 March 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Britain's most prolific female director, having directed 12 feature films and one featurette.<ref>{{cite web |last=Young |first=Neil |title=The delights of Muriel Box |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/features/muriel-box-career-retrospective-san-sebastian-truth-women-passionate-stranger-seventh-veil-happy-family |website=British Film Institute |date=24 October 2018}}</ref> Her screenplay for ''[[The Seventh Veil]]'' (co-written with husband [[Sydney Box]]) won an [[Academy Award]] for [[Best Original Screenplay]].