[…]s were you living at that time?Kay Mander: That's a very good question. I was living - my parents had come back to England, we had a flat overlooking Brooke Green. My father was working then for a company that had offices in Kings Street, Hammersmith, I can't remember what they were called, but they[…]
[…] include as many of the suburban Circuit and Independent screens as possible in its membership representation. We also extended an invitation to Fred Brookes the current Director of my old stomping ground, the Tyneside Film Theatre, who was more than happy to join in and indeed benefited with a nice[…]
[…]) 1.15.07 -                     My company, Brook Productions, one of the first to get commission from Channel 4. I put list of twelve ideas to Liz Forgan, Director of Programmes. She commission[…]
[…]got the rights off Nick Ray. I suspect that Nick Ray owed him money, and he spent a lot of time trying to set it up. We eventually set it up with Mel Brooks. Mel Brook's thought he owed me a favour after Elephant Man and so he set it up and off we went. It wasn't a bad little film.Alan Lawson: Then […]
[…]ining like on a whole film, I used to help Daphne if she had crowds and she would, you know, give me the inside and I would type sheets out. And Olga Brook, at that time, was, was very pregnant with her son. And when we did Bells Go Down Basil used to say ‘Well you better go downthere and […]
[…]pany and Mr Drage I remember Mr dray furniture though consisted of tubular steel and plywood. They were really shocking aircraft they were Lord Beaverbrook's answer to the aluminium shortage he said we haven't designed an aircraft in case we can't get any aluminium and they design is terrible. I gav[…]
[…] incomprehensible. I always thought that was one of the nicest reviews I ever received.I went back to Ealing to edit 'The Lonely Road' starring Clive Brook whose Hollywood career was coming to an end but was still a considerable name and directed by an American, James Flood. The film also starred Vi[…]
[…]And I was just thinking the other day, I mean, we had quite a few films that that came in like one was "The Gentle Sex" we had on approval with Clive Brook and Beatrice Lilly, and "The Gentle Sex"  had Rosmond John, and then there was a bit of men of two worlds, which was directed by thermal Di[…]
