Box, (Violette) Muriel (1905–1991)

English screenwriter and feminist. She established a successful writing partnership with her husband Sydney Box (1907–83) from 1935 until 1958. They shared an Academy Award for The Seventh Veil (1945), and collaborated on many films for Sydney Box's production company, Verity Films, before working within the Rank Organization. An active women's rights campaigner during the 1960s, she founded the feminist press Femina Books in 1966.

Box was born in Tolworth, Surrey, and began her career as a script girl, making her film writing debut with Alibi Inn (1935). Sidney's sister, the film producer Betty Box (1920– ), also became part of the creative team before taking charge of Islington Studios in 1947. Following her remarriage in 1970 to the lord chancellor, Gerald Gardiner, Muriel Box turned her attention to political causes.