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	The film was put into production hurriedly in order to beat ''[[Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid]]'' to the screen.<ref>{{cite news \|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47226671 \|title=Glynis Johns has a mermaid tail in "Miranda" \|newspaper=[[The Australian Women's Weekly]] \|volume=15 \|issue=6 \|date=19 July 1947 \|access-date=31 August 2017 \|page=36 \|via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>		The film was put into production hurriedly in order to beat ''[[Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid]]'' to the screen.<ref>{{cite news \|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47226671 \|title=Glynis Johns has a mermaid tail in "Miranda" \|newspaper=[[The Australian Women's Weekly]] \|volume=15 \|issue=6 \|date=19 July 1947 \|access-date=31 August 2017 \|page=36 \|via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

	The end credits include the line "Tail by [[Dunlop Rubber\|Dunlop]]". All underwater scenes were shot with a stunt double. Joan Hebden~~{{citation needed\|date=December 2021}}~~ wore the tail by Dunlop. Glynis 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.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P3x1Ax39BA\|title = - YouTube\|website = [[YouTube]]}}</ref>		The end credits include the line "Tail by [[Dunlop Rubber\|Dunlop]]". All underwater scenes were shot with a stunt double. Joan Hebden wore the tail by Dunlop. Glynis 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.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P3x1Ax39BA\|title = - YouTube\|website = [[YouTube]]}}</ref>

	The initial director was [[Michael C. Chorlton\|Michael Chorlton]]. He was replaced during filming by Ken Annakin.<ref name="Sydney">[https://www.academia.edu/6432156/Sydney_Box Andrew Spicer, "The Apple of Mr. Rank's Mercatorial Eye’: Managing Director of Gainsborough Pictures]</ref>		The initial director was [[Michael C. Chorlton\|Michael Chorlton]]. He was replaced during filming by Ken Annakin.<ref name="Sydney">[https://www.academia.edu/6432156/Sydney_Box Andrew Spicer, "The Apple of Mr. Rank's Mercatorial Eye’: Managing Director of Gainsborough Pictures]</ref>

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{{Infobox film
| name = Miranda
| image = mirandaposter.jpg
| image_size =
| caption = UK release poster
| director = [[Ken Annakin]]
| producer = [[Betty E. Box]]
| writer = Peter Blackmore '''additional dialogue''' Denis Waldock
| based_on = ''Miranda'' by [[Peter Blackmore (screenwriter)|Peter Blackmore]]
| starring = [[Glynis Johns]] [[Googie Withers]] [[Griffith Jones (actor)|Griffith Jones]] [[Margaret Rutherford]] [[John McCallum (actor)|John McCallum]] [[David Tomlinson]]
| music = Temple Abady
| cinematography = [[Ray Elton]] [[Bryan Langley]] (uncredited)
| editing = [[Gordon Hales]]
| studio = [[Gainsborough Pictures]]
| distributor = [[J. Arthur Rank]] [[General Film Distributors]] (UK) [[Eagle Lion]] (USA)
| released = {{Film date|1948|4|6|df=y}}
| runtime = 80 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget = £170,400<ref name="box">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sY1LGFNtCOEC&q=sydney+box+film+producer&pg=PA232|first= Andrew|last= Spicer|title=Sydney Box|publisher=Manchester Uni Press|year= 2006|page=210|isbn= 9780719059995}}</ref>
| gross = £181,300 (by Dec 1949)<ref name="box"/>
}}

'''''Miranda''''' is a 1948 black and white British [[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 (actor)|Griffith Jones]], [[Margaret Rutherford]], [[John McCallum (actor)|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.

The film is a light comedy fantasy about a beautiful and playful [[mermaid]] Miranda and her effect on the men and women she meets, as she outrageously flirts with and flatters every man she meets.

Glynis Johns and Margaret Rutherford reprised their roles in the 1954 colour sequel, ''[[Mad About Men]]''.

==Plot summary==
As his wife is uninterested in fishing, Dr. Paul Martin goes on a holiday on the [[Cornwall]] coast without her. There, Miranda, a mermaid, catches him by pulling on his fishing line and making him fall in the water. She drags him down to her underwater cavern where she keeps him prisoner for a week and only lets him go after he agrees to show her [[London]], where he lives. Having ordered several extra long dresses from his wife's London [[couturier]] to cover her tail, he disguises her as an invalid patient in a [[bath chair]] and takes her to his home, initially for a three weeks stay.

Martin's wife Clare reluctantly agrees to the arrangement, but insists he hire someone to look after the "patient". He selects Nurse Carey for her eccentric nature and takes her into his confidence. To Paul's relief, Carey is delighted to be working for a mermaid as she has always believed they exist.

Miranda's seductive nature earns her the admiration of not only Paul, but also his chauffeur Charles, as well as Nigel, the fiancé of Clare's friend and neighbour Isobel, arousing the jealousy of the women. Nigel even breaks off his engagement, but when he and Charles discover that Miranda has been flirting with both of them, they come to their senses.

With Clare strongly suspecting that Miranda is a mermaid, she makes Martin admit it. But when Miranda overhears Clare telling Paul that the public must be told, Miranda wheels herself down to the Thames and makes her escape into the water. She had previously told them she would go to [[Majorca]] for a visit.

In the final scene, Miranda is shown on a rock, holding a merbaby on her lap.

==Cast==
{{div col}}
* [[Glynis Johns]] as Miranda Trewella
* [[Googie Withers]] as Clare Martin
* [[Griffith Jones (actor)|Griffith Jones]] as Dr Paul Martin
* [[John McCallum (actor)|John McCallum]] as Nigel
* [[Margaret Rutherford]] as Nurse Carey
* [[David Tomlinson]] as Charles
* [[Yvonne Owen]] as Betty, the Martins' other servant and Charles's girlfriend
* [[Sonia Holm]] as Isobel
* [[Brian Oulton]] as Manell
* [[Zena Marshall]] as Secretary
* Lyn Evans as Inn Landlady
* [[Stringer Davis]] as Museum Attendant
* [[Hal Osmond]] as Railway Carman
* [[Maurice Denham]] as Cockle Vendor
{{div col end}}

==Original Play==
The film was based on a play by Peter Blackmore. He says he was inspired to write it after reading a scientific article about mermaids.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article218045570 |title=FILM NEWS |newspaper=[[Coolgardie Miner]] |volume=VIII |issue=744 |location=Western Australia |date=8 September 1949 |access-date=31 August 2017 |page=1 (MODERN WEEKLY News Magazine) |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

In the play on which the film is based, Miranda eventually has to return to Cornwall to spawn, much to the displeasure of Martin's wife.

The play was a hit in London – starring Genine Graham – and had a run in New York with [[Diana Lynn]].<ref>{{cite news|title=NEW LOOK FOR COAST STRAW HATS|author=GLADWIN, H. A.|date=Jun 20, 1948|work=New York Times|id={{ProQuest|108105115}}}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MSkBDgAAQBAJ&q=miranda+%22peter+blackmore%22&pg=PT77|title=Making a Splash: Mermaids (and Mer-Men) in 20th and 21st Century Audiovisual Media|first=Philip |last=Hayward|publisher=Indiana University Press|date=2017|isbn=9780861969258}}</ref>

==Production==
The film was put into production hurriedly in order to beat ''[[Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid]]'' to the screen.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47226671 |title=Glynis Johns has a mermaid tail in "Miranda" |newspaper=[[The Australian Women's Weekly]] |volume=15 |issue=6 |date=19 July 1947 |access-date=31 August 2017 |page=36 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

The end credits include the line "Tail by [[Dunlop Rubber|Dunlop]]". All underwater scenes were shot with a stunt double. Joan Hebden{{citation needed|date=December 2021}} wore the tail by Dunlop. Glynis 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P3x1Ax39BA|title = - YouTube|website = [[YouTube]]}}</ref>

The initial director was [[Michael C. Chorlton|Michael Chorlton]]. He was replaced during filming by Ken Annakin.<ref name="Sydney">[https://www.academia.edu/6432156/Sydney_Box Andrew Spicer, "The Apple of Mr. Rank's Mercatorial Eye’: Managing Director of Gainsborough Pictures]</ref>

There was location filming in London and Cornwall.<ref>{{cite web |title=Miranda |url=https://www.reelstreets.com/films/miranda/ |website=Reel Streets |access-date=2 December 2021}}</ref>

==Reception==
===Box Office===
The film was one of the most popular movies at the British box office in 1948.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49930940 |title=THE STARRY WAY. |newspaper=[[The Courier-Mail]] |location=Brisbane |date=8 January 1949 |access-date=11 July 2012 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/Screen_Volume_32_Issue_3/page/n17|magazine=Screen|page=258|volume=32|issue=3|title=The popular cash and culture in the postwar British cinema industry|first=Janet|last=Thumim}}</ref> According to ''Kinematograph Weekly'' the 'biggest winner' at the box office in 1948 Britain was ''The Best Years of Our Lives'' with ''Spring in Park Lane'' being the best British film and 'runners up' being ''It Always Rains on Sunday'', ''My Brother Jonathan'', ''Road to Rio'', ''Miranda'', ''An Ideal Husband'', ''Naked City'', ''The Red Shoes'', ''Green Dolphin Street'', ''Forever Amber'', ''Life with Father'', ''The Weaker Sex'', ''Oliver Twist'', ''The Fallen Idol'' and ''The Winslow Boy''.<ref>{{cite book|page=232|title=Blackout : reinventing women for wartime British cinema|last=Lant|first= Antonia|year=1991 |publisher=Princeton University Press }}</ref>

It recorded a profit of £5,600.<ref name="box"/>

==DVD release==
The film was released on home video for the first time in North America on [[DVD]] on 5 July 2011 from VCI Entertainment.

==See also==
* [[Mermaids in popular culture]]

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0040597|Miranda}}
* {{TCMDb title|83581|Miranda}}
* {{AllMovie title|102474|Miranda}}
*[http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/487724/index.html ''Miranda''] at [[BFI Screenonline]]
*[https://archive.org/stream/variety170-1948-04#page/n71/mode/1up Review of film] at ''Variety''
*{{Rotten Tomatoes|miranda-1948}}
{{Ken Annakin}}
{{Gainsborough Pictures}}

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