Joy Cavill
Joy Cavill (1923 - 1990) was an Australian writer and producer who worked in radio for a number of years before breaking into films as continuity person on King of the Coral Sea (1954).[1] This film started an association with Lee Robinson which went on for many years, and involved her working with him as a writer, associate producer and producer on a number of projects, notably Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, on which she was sole producer on the third season.[2]
Without Robinson, she wrote and produced the feature film, Dawn! (1979), a biopic of the Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser, with whom Cavill had a romantic relationship.[3] She is considered one of the pioneer female producers of the Australian film industry.[4]
Selected Credits
- King of the Coral Sea (1954) - continuity
- Walk into Paradise (1956) - continuity
- Dust in the Sun (1958) - writer
- The Stowaway (1958) - associate producer
- The Restless and the Damned (1959) - associate producer
- No Man Is an Island (1962) - continuity
- The Dawn Fraser Story (1964, documentary) - producer, director
- In Song and Dance (1964) - producer
- The Intruders (1969) - producer
- Skippy the Bush Kangaroo (1968-70) - associate producer, writer
- Nickel Queen (1971) - producer
- Barrier Reef (1971-72) - producer, writer
- Boney (1972-73) - associate producer, writer
- Shannon's Mob (1975-76) - associate producer
- Dawn! (1979) - producer, writer - winner of 1978 Awgie for Best Original Feature Film script[5]
References
- ^ "Film Continuity Girl Took Notes Underwater." The Sydney Morning Herald 8 Apr 1954: 9 Section: Women's Section accessed 16 Dec 2011
- ^ Don Storey, 'Skippy', Classic Australian TV, 2008
- ^ "Dawn sets the record straight.(Local)", The Australian (National, Australia), News Limited: 003, 2001-06-01, retrieved 9 January 2012
- ^ Jan Chapman, Some Significant Women In Australian Film - A Celebration And A Cautionary Tale', Senses of Cinema, 28 August 2002
- ^ Awgie winners 1968-2006