[…]think my grandmother felt this is what I liked so to keep me happy. She'd take me.SPEAKER: M5It's very interesting I think the sense of vocation that children often had I had it too and it's a constant theme actually throughout the history project recordings that the cinema chose people people didn'[…]
[…]orman Marshall put on at the Gate was censored. Eventually there was a big fight with the Lord Chamberlain and all the plays like Oscar Wilde and The Children’s Hour went up to the West End, but it was a terrific battle. SC: It’s extraordinary, looking back. What did the Lord Chamberlain do apa[…]
[…] they'd ever done, and in colour. I hadn't done Technicolor - this wasgoing to be my big break, you know. Unfortunately my first wife was expecting a child, which she lost, so I had to go back home, back down to Croydon and sort things out and then get back again on the unit. I'd no sooner got back […]
[…]ome from New Zealand, where they'd been brought up. And they were married, and I was born shortly after they arrived. And my father - there were four children, I have a brother, David, and two sisters, and they were born by 1914. My father went into the army and he was with the DCLI and with the Glo[…]
[…]that sense. Ah, then I realised that the Navy was just a bit too strict, because I'd done a bit with them, I'd been to sea with them, even as a small child and my father.... um, I used to go to sea with the escort ship for the Royal, er, Royal Yacht escort ship when Tommy Sopwith used to race...Alan[…]
[…]family which had connections with the film or entertainment business.Peter Tanner: None, my father died when I was very young and I was the only child and my mother had to bring me up which was quite a struggle and, as I answered in your questionnaire, I was able to go to public school where I […]
[…] and she’d been called forward to be shot, and the child had been shot, and the baby had been shot, […]
[…] an example of how a children's home can damage a child it’s this girl. And I got to know Gale, […]
[…] to tease out of you and one is the star child. I mean, you told me a wee bit about […]
