[…]come to you?
Somebody rang me.
From the Coast?
No.
No?
No. No, strangely enough. Somebody like Judy Steel[ph] from what used to be the BFA[??-BFI?], phoned me. I was asleep. Phoned me, and told me. It had apparently
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[…]ime for quality. You see, they were not commercially. They had commercial things like leaner, Hyde and so on the musicals. She was English, you know, actress, and she appeared to many of musicals. But you see, there was a class, I hate to use that word, which was established as in coming back to Eng[…]
[…] the network.DS: Then ATV took up.JPH: Weekend, Saturdays and Sundays and the rest of them crept in gradually – Granada about a year later, 1956. In fact Rediffusion sustained Granada for a very long time, they never acknowledge it these days, but they wouldn’t have happened without R[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]tention. But the thing that changed that was one absolutely symbolic event, which I remember with great clarity and after all that was in that was in 1956 when I was after all 32, which is pretty late and that was the Observer Film Exhibition in Trafalgar Square. And quite by chance I'd known that b[…]
[…] it that most people won’t know: Vince Ball, an Australian actor. Darcy Conyers. Edwin Richfield. And Kieron, among others. And Kieron had married an actress who was very devout Catholic, so Kieron took it up and became very god-willing [sic – probably god-fearing]. He said to me one day [imitates] […]
[…] the first one was home at seven. And actually, Max green began it. decided he would achieve. We had things like, we could have two cameras, that the actress could rehearse a scene.My mind's racing here, because there are so many different little stories, but one of them was at the head of the sound[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] was a highly enjoyable picture.SPEAKER: M33I don't have any particular stories of yanks that I think are illuminating.SPEAKER: M22Could you name the actress. I again I was working with Vanessa Redgrave for the second time in a row because she was an actor as well. The actress I'm talking about was […]
[…]knewthat he had to work. So when I wanted him to work he'd work. And it was a relationship as you know that lasted until he died in 1969 and this was 1956.And he did some things with Francis Essex called Tin Pan Alley which was a sort of holding time, and meanwhile Brian Tesler had been asked to dev[…]
