[…]nfortunately, he didn't know about that technique and if he did, he probably didn't have the nerve to do it. And then she was let run riot as an actress and lost the performance we had previously. So, directors taught me an awful lot as well, how to handle artists. You know quite a few of […]
[…]as marked; JR talks about costumes for the mime-tennis sequence; the spectators at the tennis-court were designed to look like a student rag; for the actress during the scene in which David Hemming’s buys an aeroplane propeller, JR asked her assistant to dye a skirt in such a way that it looks fragm[…]
[…] Tape 2 Side ABut what took really was having spent my life when I was at university earning money in the theatre and loving the theatre and being an actress and all that kind of stuff I looked at this sign language and thought bloody hell it’s magic. It’s the only three dimensional language in the […]
[…]fter - "What was it really like there?" and all the rest of it. "Can we have autographs?" and all that stuff. But because Flora was primarily a stage actress, she didn't really like films at all. And that particular film 'Fire over England' was the first one which was really successful. Although she[…]
[…]went to see Tim, and I said, "[You're] kidding, yes I'd love to join "World In Action". By this time I was married, and I had one son. I'd married an actress called Jean Alexandra. And we had one son, Ben, and another one's under way, and I resigned from "Sunday Break", and was now waiting to be con[…]
[…]d they said, It's major. The age can't do it. So then Monroe got hold of everybody on the station, all the stage hands, obviously, all the actors and actresses are in the play, all the technicians that were around, all the gray coats and brown coats, everybody. And if anybody was in the offices then[…]
[…] garage, talking to the owner, and the lad was filling up the petrol, and who happened to be standing at the side was Margaret Lockwood, you know the actress, Margaret Lockwood. And I recognised her, you know, and I said, "Here...?" He said, "Oh, she lives just down the road." So I said, "Oh ah." An[…]
[…]hoes to do things for children's television, which play I think it was the cocktail party was the set. But what was amusing there was every actor and actress in London you've ever heard of plus people for the suffragette sequence? We had Dorothy Sayers waving flags as a child with props and things. […]
