[…]aining, where did that early spark and interest in costume design come from?EH: My first interest I suppose was my mother, who always wanted to be an actress and sent me to a dancing school, and actually, rather sadly, at the end of the first period session, they told me I couldn’t do point work whi[…]
[…]re was no chance of advancement at MGM beyond the old union rate or even advancing beyond assistant dubbing mixer, I decided to change studios around 1956. That's what happened. I just left Watkins after working for him since 1938, I just left him. I was very sad about this. But I went to work for J[…]
[…]r Jasmine sort of freedom,Unknown Speaker  16:39  which was she did at the Buccaneers that was at Twickenham Robert Shaw so he became a big actress you know?Unknown Speaker  16:46  I don't think any any from Robin Hood did for just men, the four just men were Jack HawkinsUnknown […]
[…]hall we say, are not the best people to design for films. Because they're only thinking about beautiful clothes that'll look absolutely lovely on the actress, which isn't the sort of thing you want at all.Linda Wood : Hmm.Anthony Mendleson : It can be all right in certain cases, if you're designing […]
[…]r take her down to the seaside, let her smell the mud in Southend when the tide goes out’.In Southend they put a very nice Hill, Norman and Beard four-manual organ in the Strand Cinema in Warriors Way, and as I went down and Mum and Dad bought houses down there, the girls, followed us, they got litt[…]
[…]ually doing them. AndMartin Spence  1:12:24  so it is it is, in a sense, the people themselves, it's not, it's not professional actors, and actresses? PW: No.Penny Woolcock  1:12:31  And some of the people in those films have gone on to have careers as actors, because they are ac[…]
[…]oming in?GH No, no. An accountant K Morris ran the studio. Hannah Weinstein of course had a lot of shares in the studio, not that I think - Hannah was probably too occupied with producing than the actual running of the stages. She left that to others. It would probably have b[…]
[…]tches in an hour for one set. Very knowledgeable, and a madman in many ways as well. He was the greatest fan but he was either pretty mad, he made an actress was a terrible girl, because this would be recorded I shouldn't. But anyway, they got divorced. And there's a funny story connected to him, wh[…]
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Alan Lawson  0:01  The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTUhistory project. Raymon Morse known professionally as Ramos, actor, set designer, model maker, makeup artist, a man of many talents. Interviewer Alan Lawson, recorded on the 26th of August 1993.Side  one.Right he[…]
