[…]was at a meeting or he told Elvin something about what we're talking about. Amanda, I'm telling you now, you know. And so, Alvin, at a meeting of the BFA one day, because there were a lot of redundancies coming up. He said, The redundancies wouldn't be necessary if we were still making big just like[…]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 389[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2002-002-10Interview Date: 1996-11-06Interviewer: Alan LawsonInterviewee: Cyril PageTape 1, Side 1Alan Lawson: Right um...First and foremost, when and where were you born?Cyril Page: West Ham.Alan Lawson: West Ham. When?Cy[…]
[…] this was working fine.SPEAKER: M12But Michael unfortunately now had time on his hands and he was in the midst of a torrid affair with a young French actress by name Seymour signore. Yeah and I later learned from her autobiography how fond she was of Michael and also of Gordon Jackson who was a youn[…]
[…]ed with ourselves, but it wasn’t doing badly. It was something that had never been seen before, and one major thing came along and that was the 1956 Olympic Games. The Olympic Games…the 1948 Olympic Games had been seen in London, live, black and white, covered by BBC outside broadcast…I:[…]
[…]her and Michael Shepley were the mother and father and Madeline Thomas was the nanny, who lived till quite recently and was a Welsh, well known Welsh actress. There are, there are billings of that in this book. And, and Stephen Bundy designed, Stephen Bundy designed most of Michael’s things, James d[…]
[…]rproduct and if you looked at the Robe and How to Marry a Millionaire you would see what I mean. Especially on close ups where they did no favours to actresses of forty who wanted to look twenty-five.And Bob had put, had found a bit of film which must have ...er, er,er, wh, wh, no, he, he shot a bit[…]
[…]y mother at the age of 23, or 24. Playing in this film, and I was very impressed. I thought, My goodness, you weren't just a beauty, you were also an actress. And afterwards, the manager insisted that I got up and talk to the audience for five minutes of absolutely my mother. So that's the the, the […]
[…]; Roy Fowler  40:14  I have no idea Jonathan Balcon  40:14  He never drew it. And this was in 1950, 1956. Roy Fowler  40:18  Early '50s yes? Jonathan Balcon  40:21   '56, '57, '58 - £60,000 a yea[…]
[…]8  All right, yes. But before that, Am I right in saying that? You did journey into spring? Yes. Or British transport films? Yes. That was about 1956 I should think.Paddy Carey  20:08  I think it was 56. And I never thought until about 1958. And most of it in Canada, you know, but I t[…]
[…]see it, I’ve seen it recently, (laughs) you can see I don’t really jump, I slither down (laughs)I: YesCB: But I go, I go I: Right31 Lawson Butt (1880-1956) was an English actor, his films included Romeo and Juliet (1916) and The Ringer (1928) CB: Then is a long shot of the, of the parachute com[…]
