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).
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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[…]
[…] had a suitable subject he could get the backing from British Lion. So everything's going along quite well - Bill produced […]
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[…] the Beaconsfield one. It was something Lion. Arnold Schwartzman : British Lion? Charles Bennett : British Lion I think it was, […]
[…]t I did get an introduction to Elstree. There was a man who I think was still a name in the city, called Scringer and he was a director of Associated British Picture Corporation which as you all know was founded by John Maxwell. And I think at that time the Associated British had a rather large over[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]em to warn them they might hear from this gentleman.This is already, when they were in, in the...?They were...19Offices off...They'd just moved in to British Lion.Ah.It was ’61 I think it was, when they all got together, that time, then. I went to see John and Roy who both, luckily, happened to[…]
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