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{{Infobox film
| name = Once Upon a Dream
| image = Once_Upon_a_Dream_(1949_film).jpg
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| director = [[Ralph Thomas]]
| producer = [[Antony Darnborough]]<br>[[Sydney Box]]
| screenplay = [[Patrick Kirwan]]<br> Victor Katona
| story = [[Val Guest]]
| starring = [[Googie Withers]]<br>[[Griffith Jones (actor)|Griffith Jones]]<br>[[Guy Middleton]]
| music = [[Arthur Wilkinson]]
| cinematography = [[Jack E. Cox]]
| editing = [[Jean Barker (film editor)|Jean Barker]]
| studio = [[Sydney Box Productions]]
| distributor = [[General Film Distributors]] {{small|(UK)}}
| released = {{Film date|1949|02||UK}}
| runtime = 87 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
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'''''Once Upon a Dream''''' is a 1949 British [[Romantic comedy|comedy romance film]] directed by [[Ralph Thomas]] in his debut and starring [[Googie Withers]], [[Griffith Jones (actor)|Griffith Jones]], and [[Guy Middleton]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b213ade|title=Once upon a Dream (1948)|publisher=}}</ref> It was a [[J. Arthur Rank]] presentation and a [[Sydney Box]] production, and was released through [[General Film Distributors]] Ltd. The film was made at the [[Lime Grove Studios]] with sets designed by the [[art director]] [[Cedric Dawe]].

==Plot==
Just after [[World War II]], former army officer Major Gilbert returns home, shortly after his service [[Batman (military)|batman]], Jackson, whom he has taken on as his butler. The major's wife, Carol, is offended that her husband pays her little attention before going off to bed, saying he is exhausted after his journey. That night, she has a romantic dream about Jackson and as a result of a coincidence of events as she wakes up, she believes it actually happened and becomes indignant when Jackson does not act accordingly. Meanwhile, Carol's shop is in financial difficulties, and she needs help from the major's rich aunt with whom she cannot get along.

==Cast==
* [[Googie Withers]] as Carol Gilbert
* [[Griffith Jones (actor)|Griffith Jones]] as Jackson
* [[Guy Middleton]] as Major Gilbert
* [[Betty Lynne]] as Mlle Louise
* [[David Horne (actor)|David Horne]] as Registrar
* Geoffrey Morris as Registrar's Clerk
* [[Raymond Lovell]] as Mr. Trout
* [[Noel Howlett]] as Solicitor
* [[Agnes Lauchlan]] as Aunt Agnes
* Mirren Wood as Conductress
* [[Hubert Gregg]] as Captain Williams
* [[Maurice Denham]] as Vicar
* [[Mona Washbourne]] as Vicar's Wife
* [[Nora Nicholson]] as 1st W.V.S.
* [[Dora Bryan]] as Barmaid
* [[Hal Osmond]] as Bailiff
* Arthur Denton as Janitor
* Eric Messiter as Pontefact
* [[Gibb McLaughlin]] as Pontefact
* [[Cecil Bevan]] as Wright
* [[Wilfred Caithness]] as Pontefact

==Production==
[[Margaret Lockwood]] refused to do the film and was put on suspension by Rank.<ref name="vagg">{{cite magazine|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|magazine=Filmink|title=Why Stars Stop Being Stars: Margaret Lockwood|date=January 29, 2020|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/stars-stop-stars-margaret-lockwood/}}</ref> She said when she read the script - then called ''Roses for Her Pillow'' - "as I reached the last page I hurled the manuscript across the room. I had never been so angry." She complained to her agent "how dare they offer me a part like that... It's no more than that of a stooge." Her agent tried to see if they could improve it but Lockwood said "I would not listen. This time no one was going to make me change my mind. I did not care what anyone said. I was sick of getting mediocre parts and poor scripts."<ref>{{cite book|first=Margaret|last=Lockwood|title=Lucky Star: The Autobiography of Margaret Lockwood|publisher=Odhams Press Limited|year=1955|page=134}}</ref>

Ralph Thomas was head of the trailer department for the Rank Film Organisation. He had made a number of trailers for producer [[Sydney Box]], including one for the film ''[[Miranda (1948 film)|Miranda]]'' (1948) which Box liked. "He was particularly taken with it," said Thomas. When the original director for ''Once Upon a Dream'' fell ill, Box offered Thomas the chance to direct. It was on this film that Thomas met Box's sister Betty, who would go on to make over 20 films with Thomas.<ref>''Collected Interviews: Voices from Twentieth-century Cinema'' by Wheeler W. Dixon, SIU Press, 2001 p109</ref>

==Reception==
By 1953 the film earned a net revenue of £79,000.<ref name="box">[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=sY1LGFNtCOEC&pg=PA232&lpg=PA232&dq=sydney+box+film+producer&source=bl&ots=F02E_WOkLo&sig=bTwtFh0NIsHllgPcTGLkovJObNU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjmkt78sr_MAhXltIMKHcEYCX0Q6AEILjAD#v=onepage&q=sydney%20box%20film%20producer&f=false Andrew Spicer, ''Sydney Box'' Manchester Uni Press 2006 p 211]</ref>

''[[Allmovie]]'' noted, "More silly than funny, ''Once Upon a Dream'' is kept alive by the enthusiastic performances of its leading players."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmovie.com/movie/once-upon-a-dream-v104784|title=Once Upon a Dream (1949) - Ralph Thomas - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie|publisher=}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0039679}}

{{Ralph Thomas}}

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