[…]ospital. And it was I think, just about the time that they moved into that that I joined them, I persuaded them to give me a job as a as an assistant director. Because I I'm, I don't think I've worked for them at all before that. It was when they started at Cleveland street that I went to work for t[…]
[…]hat was, what was the pictures title?SAMUELSON: The pictures title was Arlington RoadQ: Oh yes, I saw that yeah. (oh you saw that) Yeah, yeah the the bomber.SAMUELSON: Yeah, (yeah) was quite good I thought. Q: Yes, yes it was John Cusack I think yeah.SAMUELSON: And the one before that was Wilde with[…]
[…] first met my third husband, who was an assistant director, you know, we were asked to stay at the studio during the duration of the film because the bombers were dropping, this is now 1941, just in case one of us got bumped off and they’d have to start the film all over again so, I tell the story o[…]
[…]ve when I've just graduated but I met a big army air corp guy, I was saying my ambition was to go to Hollywood. And he said "I'm going in a Liberator Bomber tomorrow and I'll take you." because he was going to a place 60 miles in the desert, it was right in the middle of the St Andreas fault and he […]
[…] like that, at eleven o'clock in the morning. And when the lights went up, who should I see sitting in front of me but Jack Holmes who was the senior director. And I thought, "Oh my God this is it," you know, [chuckles] it's like being found out for truancy, I mean it really was bad news! And as he […]
[…] That's right. I remember being there and seeingRoy Fowler: There was the Battle of Britain and then the night raidsf.Maurice Carter: And the Italian bombers came over so low we could actually see themarkings and know they were Italian. They came sweeping over the studio. It was theonly raid the Ita[…]
[…]rage of aircraft far I mean, aircraft was never very accurate but if we could put up a barrage at a certain height which the plane for flying the low bombers or flying was not anything else it was a deterrent, you know. And so, having daggy and being on the radar said why quite often used to go to a[…]
[…]ally performed the role of Winston Churchill in four other productions: Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (1981), War and Remembrance (1988-9), Bomber Harris (1989), and the Marple series adaptation The Sittaford Mystery (2006). He was scheduled to reprise the role for a sixth time in Peter Mo[…]
[…]ional in Hollywood who used to come and lecture at the museum.SPEAKER: M11And uh uh. At school as well. And uh all these people they would get an art director. Some of the various art directors of that time to come and give lectures at night school and USC and uh.SPEAKER: M5But it was an early cours[…]
[…]f to talk about If..., and then we started writing the script. Seth then, his career as a director got re-animated and he got some other project as a director. Anyway I remember that David and I went and met Seth Holt and John Howlett in Hampstead and had given them our treatment which they didn't g[…]
