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[…]o a lot of, for example he said I went into the rehearsal rooms of Dad's Army and I couldn't understand what they were on about until I realised that Arthur Lowe was the officer and John Le Mes was the sergeant which is completely the opposite to the way you would imagine. You would imagine that Le […]

[…]d made some films e. g. Defence of Madrid. In 1938 he had this project for making more films out there and assembled a group of people which included Arthur Graham, Alan Lawson, Thorold Dickinson and Philip Leacock, who afterwards became a well-known direct, and off we went to Spain. Originally we w[…]

[…]st and kinetic sculptor whose cartoons and whimsical machines featured in several stage plays and in the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968).[13] Sir Arthur John Gielgud (1904-2000) was one of the most distinguished English stage actor-directors of the 20th century, known best for his extensive Shak[…]

[…] say on that, too, that once they have it, they, they never really let go and the business of art as a means of communicating it. I think I mentioned Arthur Koestler, his definition of art as a means of communication, which aims to elicit or recreated echo. In other words, that the thing in any work[…]

[…]there, that was the reason IthinkRoy Fowler: Those first two pictures with Val, anything to say about them. You say theywere musicals, were they both Arthur AskeyMaurice Carter: No, it was mainly Jean Kent. She was the chief artist in that. I rememberI didn't have much faith in them I must sayRoy Fo[…]

DICKIE BEST Tape 1 of 115th July 1987.Interview of Richard Best, editor, interviewer Arthur Graham.Copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project.SIDE 1, TAPE 1AG: Richard, where and when were you born.DB: I was born in Hull in 1916 and brought down to London at an earlyage, about[…]

[…]olf etc. His agent was Joe Collins (father of Joan and Jackie) who had power of attorney [as he was a minor].Hadn’t read the William Books (preferred Arthur Ransome), went for audition with c 1000 others,narrowed down to c12 for screen test at Southall Studios for United Artists with Val Guest for J[…]

[…]ed to like listening to dance bands, Henry Hall and that bit. But my favourite one, I think, was one that Richard Murdoch and Kenneth…  em, Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch, Stinker Murdoch was in called Bandwagon.  And that… I forget what day of the week it was on.  There was Ba[…]