[…]and we managed to get him in a uniform. So it was a most charming film, produced by Launder and Gilliat, the famous producers of many, many brilliant British films.[56] But we also did The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957),[57] an American production at MGM. Jennifer Jones[58] played Elizabeth Barre[…]
[…]here were you born?Lindsay Anderson: I was born on April 17th, 1923 in Bangalore, South India in the military hospital, I think. My father was in the British army in India, the Queen Victoria's Own, the Royal Engineers. My mother was half Scottish, her mother was Scottish and her father was English.[…]
[…] imperative. This article focusses on a case study of multi-award-winning British costume designer Julie Harris (1921-2015), plotting and analysing traces […]
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[…]k probably you are right. But can I just say that to start as it were in the middle, as I think you know, he was knighted in 1947 for services to the British film industry during the war. He was also a Knight First Class of the Order of St. Olaf, Norway, which he and Charlie Frend acquired I think b[…]
[…]d she had - amongst many of her clients - she had a lady whose husband happened to be at that time the general sales manager of a film company called British Lion Film Corporation. And Sidney Myers was looking, or somebody within British Lion was looking for some young blood, and Mrs Myers happened […]
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[…]plays.VG: That came later in my teens when I went into, I went on stage to start with and then I did odd things in films for Warner Brothers and BIP [British International Pictures] and I worked a lot with Lupino Lane.RF: Just to wrap up on school did you have any encouragement on writing there.&nbs[…]
[…] In December 1940, S G Rayment, the editor of the British trade publication the Kine Yearbook, noted ‘a certain interesting […]
[…]fax: Gentleman, which was a famous book by a woman named Mrs. Craik. I played John Halifax when young, and a guy named Fred Paul, who was by way of a British film star, played him when he was older. So I was in films, I'd forgotten that, yes! But I don't think I was quite up there with Mickey Rooney[…]
