[…] Parkside Wimbledon College. In a house which doesnt' exist any longer. It was hit by a flying bomb during the war. I don't think there was anything particularly of note during my school career. I always liked films. I wanted to get into films. From an early age I liked the cinema. I was interested […]
[…] discussing details of Caesar … with L.P. Williams who was Art Director, Brian Desmond Hurst who was Co -Director, Marjorie Deans […]
[…]ou have?WR: Prep school in High Wycombe and then the grammar school, and I wasn’t the best student, and my parents were friendly with Edgar Wallace’s Art Director, the only lady art director at the time. She was very talented, when she wasn’t working for Edgar Wallace, mainly in the theatre,LH: Edga[…]
[…]e time to his performances. So, we were backstage. Ooh, backstage! I like backstage not onstage. I never wanted to be a performer.DARROL BLAKE: You started very young ... How did you come to be in thefilm business? From the CV I see that you were a sort of trainee production secretary to begin with.[…]
[…]n Hall Gardens, London 1907.Alan Lawson 00:25Now what kind of schooling did you have?Dallas Bower 00:29First of all Barr Kindergarten, which was the Froebel Institute, hard by Kensington Hall Gardens; Willingdon School, Putney, which enjoyed the distinction of tw[…]
[…] 1991 Interviewer: Sid Cole, Alan Lawson Interviewee: Edward Carrick (Craig), Art Director/Production Designer Sid Cole: Te d d y, i t […]
[…] we had a man called John Cooper who was an art director and we were doing these explosions which were quite […]
[…]seventy-five pence a week.Alan Lawson: What kind of a business was that?Cyril Pennington-Richards: It was an importer, a couple of Spanish partners owned this business, it was on Fish Street Hill, right by Billingsgate. And as I walked down the hill from the Monument Station, the very firs[…]
[…]ddie Francis: Very primitive you know. And my parents were not very rich and my dear old mother, bless her, had never been to school. My father had started in his life as a clerk on the railway, actually he started life and I always tell this to Americans because in American slang it means something[…]
[…] was never allowed, but she somehow or another found, because she sent me to a very good dancing school to begin with.LW: How old were you when you started?WT: Three. And the rehearsal pianist, accompanist there, was Glynis Johns mother, and I think it was she who suggested that I should go in to do[…]
