Film-maker and screenwriter Jill Craigie was the wife of which politician?
Jill Craigie died in 1999 of heart failure at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, London. The archives of Jill Craigie are held at The Women's Library at the Library of the London School of Economics, ref 7JCC Jill Craigie Jill Craigie (7 March 1911 – 13 December 1999) was an English documentary film director, screenwriter and feminist. She married the Labour Party politician Michael Foot (1913–2010), whom she met during the making of her film "The Way We Live". Born Noreen Jean Craigie to a Russian mother and a Scottish father in Fulham, London, Craigie started her career in film as
Jill Craigie and gender equality. After directing five films and writing two others, Craigie retired from the film business for almost forty years, returning to make a single film for BBC television. Craigie was one of the scriptwriters of "Trouble in Store," Norman Wisdom's film debut, which screened in December 1953. The film broke box office records at 51 out of the 67 London cinemas in which it played. After writing the first draft of the script, Craigie reportedly asked that her name be removed from the credits after learning of Wisdom's participation. In latter years Craigie became an authority on the