query: screenwriter saraband for dead lovers
supports: Joan Greenwood (4 March 1921  28 February 1987) was an English actress. Her husky voice, coupled with her slow, precise elocution, was her trademark. She is perhaps best remembered for her role as Sibella in "Kind Hearts and Coronets" (1949). Her other film appearances included "The Man in the White Suit" (1951), "The Importance of Being Earnest" (1952), "Stage Struck" (1958), "Tom Jones" (1963) and "Little Dorrit" (1987). Philip Christoph von Königsmarck or Philipp Christoph Königsmarck, (Stade, 4 March 1665  2 July 1694, Hanover) was a Swedish count of Brandenburgian extraction and a soldier. He was allegedly the lover of Sophia Dorothea, Princess of Celle, the wife of Duke George Louis of Brunswick and Lunenburg, the heir presumptive of the Principality of Calenberg, later to become Elector of Hanover (as George I Louis, 1708) and King of Great Britain (as George I, 1714). Basil Dearden (born Basil Clive Dear; 1 January 1911  23 March 1971) was an English film director. The Principality of Calenberg was a dynastic division of the Welf duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg in the Holy Roman Empire from 1494 until 1705, when Elector George I Louis, Prince of Calenberg, inherited the Principality of Lüneburg to form the state of Hanover. Saraband for Dead Lovers ( released in the United States . as Saraband ) is a 1948 British historical drama film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Stewart Granger and Joan Greenwood . It is based on the novel by Helen Simpson . Set in seventeenth century Hanover , it depicts the doomed romance between Philip Christoph von Königsmarck and Sophia Dorothea of Celle , the wife of the Elector of Hanover . Jim Morahan , William Kellner and Michael Relph were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction - Set Decoration , Color . Kind Hearts and Coronets is a British black comedy film of 1949 starring Dennis Price, Joan Greenwood, Valerie Hobson, and Alec Guinness. Guinness plays eight distinct characters. The plot is loosely based on the novel "Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal" (1907) by Roy Horniman, with the screenplay written by Robert Hamer and John Dighton and the film directed by Hamer. The title refers to a line in Tennyson's poem "Lady Clara Vere de Vere": "Kind hearts are more than coronets, and simple faith than Norman blood." The Man In The White Suit is a 1951 science-fiction satirical comedy film made by Ealing Studios. It starred Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood and Cecil Parker and was directed by Alexander Mackendrick. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing (Screenplay) for Roger MacDougall, John Dighton and Alexander Mackendrick (who was a cousin of Roger MacDougall).
candidates: alec guinness alexander mackendrick basil dearden john dighton prince robert hamer
answer: alexander mackendrick