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[…]down the stairs with cups of tea and sweep the stage and so on as part of our training, were people that now are regarded as having been the cream of British actors. Some of them, unfortunately no longer with us, some of them are happily, Paul Scofield was one. Margaret Layton, Stanley Baker, Robin […]

The copyright of this interview lies with the \british Entertainment History ProjectInterview with Rosamund JohnInterviewer: Rodney Giesler RG: Could you tell me your background Rosamund, how you started acting and what was the situation?RJ: Well I don’t know why, I always wanted to be an actre[…]

[…]stayed in the job at Clapham for 2 years.00:12:50 – 00:21:30 LH had a lot of relatives working in the studios (12 Hillings in total) – mostly Gaumont British working as an electrician, wardrobe master & mistress, stagehands, or in the wood mill/timber store; an uncle was killed on location of a […]

[…] was in the Gate Revue, way, way back. SC: Yes then she was mainly a sort of revue lady wasn’t she? DM: Yes and then she played in a lot of British films. Smallish ones. She and Joan Greenwood were the two girls that Ealing kept on time and time again weren’t they? Extraordinary thing abou[…]

Sheelagh Reece DRAFT. Tape 1 Side AThis recording was transcribed by funds from the AHRC-funded ‘History of Women in British Film and Television project, 1933-1989’, led by Dr Melanie Bell (Principal Investigator, University of Leeds) and Dr Vicky Ball (Co-Investigator, De Montfort University). (201[…]

[…]tayed there for a year until Technicolor came to England; met George Cave who interviewed him for a job; first job was on Wings of the Morning (first British Technicolor film); then trained by the American technicians – became a focus puller, serviced the camera, loaded the camera; early cameramen o[…]