[…] the military hospital, I think. My father was in the British army in India, the Queen Victoria's Own, the Royal […]
[…]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[…]
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[…]istic work, but I think it was probably the right choice for the film anyway to make it look real. And I guess I have to recognise that everything in British cinema surrounding me at that time, everything I liked was in the same manner, shot in the same manner, naturalistically. Mostly, not everythi[…]
[…] time passes. CB: Yes, I mean, they’ve lost a hundred British films I: Oh yes, yes. More than a hundred . […]
[…]the cleaners in the morning who were taking out the sweet wrappers and things and all they had to do was to prove that they had shown that film, that British film, in their cinema.And um, er he certainly must have got back in by writing, producing, directing and editing some Quota Quickies and in fa[…]
Chili BouchierChili Bouchier (1909-1999) was a British film actress, after working as a model for
Harrods, she won a Daily Mail competition to become a film star. Her films included Shooting Stars (1927), The Return of Carole Deane (1938) and Dead Lucky (1960).
I: 29th of May 1996 we are at BECT[…]
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[…]at which point Alex sacked us all - or at least all the lower grades - because they were moving to Denham. So, October 1935 I got myself a job at Fox-British, again in the publicity department, with a very very clever young man called Geoff Davis who did the most wonderful cartoons. And our chief jo[…]