[…]ly I got a copy of it from the BBC. It's on video. It is the most dreadful little film. I mean, it's really poor, but Bernard Miles was in it. And an actress called lusail Lyle spelled li SLE. I've never seen her since and seeing it again. It's really, really a poor film. But it was made at Highbury[…]
[…]very biting sense of humour. We had a new girl called Maggie Lockwood who had just been signed by the studio, terribly inexperienced, she was a stage actress, she'd been seen on the stage and brought under contract. And she was terribly unsophisticated and lived with two maiden aunts in West Norwood[…]
[…]at this recording is vested in the British Entertainment History Project. The name of the interviewee is Madeline Smith; film, television and theatre actress and radio. The interviewer is Mike Dick, and John Luton is on camera. The interview number is seven two two and the date is the 13th of March […]
[…]ere was ... I can’t remember what his name was ...There was an art directorwho worked at the BBC and one day he said to me “There’s a young actress who hasbeen in. She is going to do a programme called A for Andromeda. A young girl called Julie Christie. I am sure she would be ri[…]
[…]con 10:49 And apart from being a good film, and a film that made a lot of money, it was famous because they actually employed an American actress called Constance Smith?Roy Fowler 11:03 I wouldn't be sure. Jonathan Balcon 11:05 I would have to look that up.Ro[…]
[…]rbanks senior in the black pirate. Al Parker was a typical tough rugged slick American director who used to ball the life out of the actors and actresses just like any caricature you might have the film rather like Gregory Ratoff used to but I managed to. Handle Al Parker and I got quite a lar[…]
[…]e and never appeared or walked on again. So it was strange, that. But the three of us were all mad about it. Hazel was very good, she was a very good actress indeed and in fact when we were evacuated up to, after Bristol everyone was hurriedly evacuated, the BBC Variety Department were evacuated to […]
[…] one day he s aid to me "There’s a young actress who has been in. She is going to do […]
[…]don’t know why but even at that stage the thought of teaching and of doing a nine-to-five job anywhere filled me with horror. I wanted to be an actress but, of course, being an actress, and I was always being the lead in all the school plays, from primary school to grammar school. I play[…]
BECTU History Project Interview with Diana Morgan - actress, playwright, screenwriter28 September 1992Interview number 265 Interviewers: Sid Cole, Alan Lawson Recorded at Denville Hall SIDE 1 (Preamble)SC: Diana, it’s lovely to be interviewing you. As I was saying let’s sta[…]
