![]() A gregarious man with an irrepressible sense of humour, he established warm relations with the press and brought his artistic training to bear on the production of the studio's publicity material. In 1938, after working at several studios including MGM-British at Denham, he joined Ealing as its director of publicity, soon after Michael Balcon became studio head. ![]() After studying at the Royal College of Art, he began working as a painter and a journalist before entering the film industry as a publicist. He was born in Archangel into a Russian-Jewish family who left Russia for England in 1919. After this he achieved some success as a screenwriter and producer, mainly of comedies, but it's for his contribution to the lasting reputation of Ealing as Britain's best-loved film studio that he'll be best remembered. For ten years Monja Danischewsky, invariably known as 'Danny', was Ealing Studios' director of publicity, a job he handled with flair and ebullience. ![]()
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