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[…] of the the agreement, I think, although most probably an unwritten agreement, was that most of the technicians join the ACTT. And I'd joined ACTT in 1956 after only a few weeks working in a laboratory and stayed as a member for many years until I joined BECTU, and then BECTU joined the ACTT.  […]
[…]hoes to do things for children's television, which play I think it was the cocktail party was the set. But what was amusing there was every actor and actress in London you've ever heard of plus people for the suffragette sequence? We had Dorothy Sayers waving flags as a child with props and things. […]
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[…]ng thing was that we rehearsed it, there was John Clements, a stage actor, Irina Baronova who was a ballerina and and Valerie Hobson who was a cinema actress. One of the difficulties a director always has is trying to get every body's performance to gell at the same time. So here we were with these […]
[…] was just good at business.      I was justgood at being an administra- tor, it's 35 years and I've proved it.      At my age at that t[…]
[…] play is two hours. And we put together a wonderful cast - Eileen McCallum, Dorothy Paul, who was in the original stage version I think, a nice young actress called, oh God, I've forgotten her name now! Sorry about that. The young Peter Mullan was the only male in it and we made it in the studio and[…]
[…]sp;It was about a woman who who was blind, and about a con man who conned her. Speaker 1  5:13  The girl that he used was an actress called Ellen Bluthor. She was quite a famous actress in her time, and she related Paul Lecker  5:22  to the Australia[…]
[…]pt very well. And she eventually ended up by not really liking being an Indian at all, and certainly not liking being a Jew. That was the other thing - we were Bene Israels. My brother, again, he had a bad time, he was a year younger than, than me. And he used to be spat on by the local kids, you kn[…]
[…]d. There was no advertising on them. It was rather look. I took the view of Bristol Sydney. We were the engines for the industry. We had to beat Rolls-Royce who were hopeless on the film side. The PR was absolutely ludicrous. So the only way we could beat them was to give a better service. And that […]
