Success To 'The Cruel Sea' - Author Meets Stars Of The Film -- Mr. Nicholas Monsarrat, author of 'The Cruel Sea', best-selling naval story, tonight met stars who will play in the film version which is being made by Ealing Studios, at a cocktail party at London's Dorchester Hotel. Here Mr. Nicholas Monsarrat is drinking to the success of the film with Moira Lister actress wife of actor Moraile. She is wearing an Elizabethan hat of green velvet, embroidered with seed pearls, and a gold necklace and earrings to match of diamonds and amethyats. March 3, 1953. (Photo by Reuterphoto).