This Was a Woman

This Was a Woman
Trade ad, Kinematograph Weekly, 1948
Directed byTim Whelan
Written byVal Valentine (adapted from the film treatment by Joan Morgan)
Based onplay This Was a Woman by Joan Morgan
Produced byMarcel Hellman
Starring
Cinematography
Edited byEdward B. Jarvis
Music byMischa Spoliansky
Production
company
Excelsior Films
Distributed byTwentieth Century Fox
Release dates
  • 21 June 1948 (1948-06-21) (United Kingdom)
  • 4 January 1949 (1949-01-04) (United States)
Running time
102 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

This Was a Woman is a 1948 British crime film directed by Tim Whelan and starring Sonia Dresdel, Walter Fitzgerald and Emrys Jones. It was written by Val Valentine from a treatment by based on a successful play by former film actress Joan Morgan. Its plot concerns an outwardly respectable family dominated by a murderous matriarch.