Age, Biography and Wiki

Evelyn Cherry was born on 30 November, 1905 in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada, is a Canadian screenwriter and filmmaker. Discover Evelyn Cherry's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 84 years old?

Popular As N/A
Occupation Filmmaker, Teacher. Journalist
Age 84 years old
Zodiac Sign
Born 30 November 1905
Birthday 30 November
Birthplace Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date of death 1990
Died Place Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Nationality Canada

We recommend you to check the complete list of Famous People born on 30 November. She is a member of famous Producer with the age 84 years old group.

Evelyn Cherry Height, Weight & Measurements

At 84 years old, Evelyn Cherry height not available right now. We will update Evelyn Cherry's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible.

Physical Status
Height Not Available
Weight Not Available
Body Measurements Not Available
Eye Color Not Available
Hair Color Not Available

Who Is Evelyn Cherry's Husband?

Her husband is Lawrence Cherry

Family
Parents Not Available
Husband Lawrence Cherry
Sibling Not Available
Children Not Available

Evelyn Cherry Net Worth

Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Evelyn Cherry worth at the age of 84 years old? Evelyn Cherry’s income source is mostly from being a successful Producer. She is from Canada. We have estimated Evelyn Cherry's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2024 $1 Million - $5 Million
Salary in 2024 Under Review
Net Worth in 2023 Pending
Salary in 2023 Under Review
House Not Available
Cars Not Available
Source of Income Producer

Evelyn Cherry Social Network

Instagram
Linkedin
Twitter
Facebook
Wikipedia Evelyn Cherry Wikipedia
Imdb

Timeline

Evelyn Spice Cherry (née Evelyn Spice) was a Canadian documentary filmmaker, director, and producer.

She is best known for her work as the head of the Agricultural Films Unit at the National Film Board of Canada and as a member of the British Documentary Film Movement.

1860

The fonds covers the date range 1860 to 1988.

It consists of 9.11 meters of textual records, 876 photographs and a number of other media records.

1904

Evelyn Spice was born in 1904 in Yorkton, Saskatchewan.

She began her career teaching public school.

1929

In 1929, she graduated from the University of Missouri with a degree in journalism and started working at the Regina Leader-Post as the society columnist.

1931

Spice moved to London, England in 1931, where she began working at the Government Post Film Unit.

She worked under John Grierson, whom she would later go on to work with at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) in Canada.

While working at the GPO, Spice met and worked with members of the British Documentary Film Movement.

She became the only Canadian and the only woman in the movement.

While in England, Spice met her fellow Canadian and future film making partner and husband, Lawrence Cherry.

1939

In 1939, after the Second World War was declared, Evelyn and Lawrence returned to Canada, where they worked as independent film makers.

The couple worked as a team, both being skilled cinematographers and editors, although Lawrence often worked best under his wife's direction.

1941

In 1941, Grierson invited Cherry and her husband to join the newly formed National Film Commission, later renamed the National Film Board.

Cherry was placed in charge of the agricultural film unit, where she made films about farm life and food production.

Cherry’s accession to such a high position in the NFB was unheard of at the time and is attributable to the scarcity of available talented filmmakers after the outbreak of the Second World War.

Nonetheless, her work was highly influential and Cherry is regarded as a pioneer in the Canadian female documentary filmmaker movement.

Cherry made 128 films at the NFB during her 10-year tenure.

Since the NFB had been formed in part to create Canadian propaganda for the war effort, many of Cherry’s films revolved around a central theme of cooperation and coming together to achieve a unified goal.

1944

Similarly, her film Children First (1944) spoke to the importance of organized consumption and assures the audience that sharing guarantees that “there will be enough to go around.” These “waste not, want not” messages were abundant in NFB films throughout the 1940s, but would go on to cost Cherry and many others at the NFB their jobs after the war, as post-World War II communist paranoia surrounded the NFB and other government agencies.

Cherry left the National Film Board during the "Red Scare" — an epidemic fear that communist operatives had infiltrated branches of Canadian government offices and institutions after the Second World War.

These fears were somewhat bolstered when Igor Gouzenko, a cipher clerk for the Soviet Embassy to Canada, defected to Canada and brought with him evidence of espionage.

Among the evidence was a document that read "Freda to the Professor through Grierson."

This document was thought to be implicating John Grierson, the man who hired Cherry at the NFB, and his former secretary Freda.

As such, Cherry and her husband, along with many others from the NFB, were let go and John Grierson's contract as NFB commissioner was not renewed.

Although Cherry herself was never directly linked to any communist activities, the government saw potential communist themes in her work, before and during her time at the NFB.

As head of the Agricultural Films Unit, many of her films portrayed the working class in an exemplary light.

Her film Children First, for example, advocated for consumption patterns in relation to societal needs.

These messages of social consciousness and praise for the working class were necessary to the war effort, but were seen as potentially detrimental to capitalist society afterwards.

Cherry herself acknowledged the politically motivated purging of the socially aware documentary film makers from the NFB:"The basic thing was an attack on the kind of film – of social meaning – we were doing. We felt deeply involved in the county and we were filming it. Canadians were seeing themselves and their country for the first time, and they liked it. We were a threat to the way things were and the way some people wanted them to continue. In the U.S. there were a few people doing it, but up here it was a movement – the National Film Board!"

After leaving the National Film Board, Cherry retired from filmmaking, albeit temporarily, returning to her earlier work as a teacher.

1946

Farm Electrification (1946), for example, is a film that centres on a rural Manitoba community that comes together to bring hydroelectricity to their farms.

Those in the community who oppose the plan are eventually won over, recognizing that the wide-reaching benefits outweigh the costs.

1960

Cherry and her husband raised a family together and, in 1960, the couple got back into film making in Saskatchewan to form Cherry Films Ltd, where they made more socially and environmentally conscious films.

1966

Lawrence died in 1966.

1985

Cherry finally retired from filmmaking in 1985, when she moved to British Columbia.

1990

She died in Victoria in 1990.

There is an Evelyn and Lawrence Cherry fonds at Library and Archives Canada.

The archival reference number is R5268, former archival reference MG31-D173.