[…]wouldn’t have given us, wouldn’t have allowed so many of us on the plane. We did, I remember, take the director and his wife, who was a make-up artist, who I didn’t know, and I sat next to his wife and was talking and he was assing about, oh God, assing about at something, and not knowing that[…]
[…]ken out there. But in those days you had to be an assistant to I think for many years I think was an example when Alan JAGs who was one of the finest artists in England at the end of the Forties decided to try his luck in the America's got to Hollywood and was put back to square one and had to spend[…]
[…]based on readings from the original cassette recording.The copyright of this recording is vested in The BECTU History Project. Peggy Rignold, make-up artist, later to become Mrs Hyde-Chambers, wife of the film editor, and later to work for Lew Grade as an administrator. Recorded on the twenty-eighth[…]
[…]se the director would give roughly what set-up he wanted and then the operator would position the camera so that he'd get - And fix the places of the artists, giving them little marks to walk to, and then arrange all the furniture and the set and all the pieces so nothing clashed and it made a nice […]
[…]was aware. And also one had a good, I mean, one had, we had Jack Hildyard, Peter Newbrook was the operator. And I suppose they did all help. American artists were always better at continuity than than English artists anyway. I remember having one terrible argument with Katie Hepburn about some earri[…]
[…]rop around you see. So I had to make it clear that she was not going to be billed as the art director [laughs]. Anyhow, she wasn't, she was billed as artistic adviser to Noel Coward. And as far as I know, she never came to the studio! I never saw her!Rodney Giesler : How much creative power did Cowa[…]
[…]ished it free, they weren't due back into 10 hours later. I think it was 10 hours, but that there was that carry on. And of course, sometimes you had artists that didn't turn up until late and nothing could be done. And if they were big enough and important enough, they got away with it, and Ro[…]
