Editing Michael Rennie (section)

===Maurice Ostrer===
In July 1946 it was announced Rennie had signed a five-year contract with [[Maurice Ostrer]]'s new company, Premiere Productions, worth  £300,000 – making him the highest paid film star in Britain.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article231574726 |title=Martini Had Clothes And |newspaper=[[The Sun (Sydney)|The Sun]] |issue=11,384 |location=Sydney |date=19 July 1946 |access-date=25 March 2017 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> Rennie's first film under a new contract was ''[[White Cradle Inn]]'' (1947), shot in Switzerland with [[Madeleine Carroll]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47502906 |title=Lucky contracts for Michael Rennie |newspaper=The Australian Women's Weekly |volume=14 |issue=23 |date=16 November 1946 |access-date=25 March 2017 |page=36 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> Rennie had been "loaned out" to another company to make it but then he made his first film for Ostrer at Premiere, ''[[The Idol of Paris]]'' (1948).<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article228974916 |title=British Films |newspaper=[[The Sun (Sydney)|The Sun]] |issue=2317 |location=Sydney |date=7 September 1947 |access-date=25 March 2017 |page=19 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> The film did so badly that Ostrer left the film industry.

Rennie made films for independent producers and his career momentum began to fade: ''[[Uneasy Terms]]'' (1948); ''[[Golden Madonna]]'' (1949) (again with Calvert); and two comedies for Val Guest: ''[[Miss Pilgrim's Progress]]'' (1949) and ''[[The Body Said No!]]'' (1950). He had what may be considered Rennie's only role as one of two central characters in a fully-fledged love story in the 47-minute episode "[[Trio (1950 film)#Sanatorium|Sanatorium]]", the longest of the [[Somerset Maugham]] tales constituting the omnibus film ''[[Trio (1950 film)|Trio]]'' (1950); the 40-year-old Rennie and the 20-year-old [[Jean Simmons]] play patients and doomed lovers in the title institution, which caters to victims of [[tuberculosis]].