[…]l Secretary. Interviewer Teddy Darvas. Recorded on the 6th of November 1996. Side One.We’re going.Yes. Okay.Right.Right Mary, tell us about your childhood, where you were born, how you, educated and how you came into films?I was born in Cornwall in October 1919 and very shortly after that, abou[…]
[…]tist as a matter of fact he thought it was a really good solid profession. Of course they'd come through the depression and the war and I was on only child. He really wanted me to have a secure future and he thought this was a secure future and a respected profession, and they said well art is wonde[…]
[…]t put me, it set my back against learning I think to some extent. And then in later life looking back, reading somet.ning Bernard Shaw said, that any child that escapes-his teachers was fortunate. So I suppose in that way it was a fortunate thing for me that I wasn't inculcated with their knowledge.[…]
[…]oing overhead, that must mean I was no more than two years old at the time, your birth you was 1916, right? Which may or may not be surprising that a child should remember so much. And about that time, also, a rat crawls out my cott, and tried to get me I can remember the clickety click, and I must […]
[…]you know more about you um I would like to ask you about your father and his brothers. Um, first about your father. Can you recall your kind of early childhood memories of him at all?SAMUELSON: Yes, that’s G B Samuelson and my earliest film memory was going to his studio which was Worton Hall at Isl[…]
[…]terested in becoming a sound recordist at Elstree. Well of course nothing could possibly have interested me more because way back in, as a child there was an uncle who as it were conditioned my very, very early childish interest in the cinema. He used to take me to the old Royalty Cinema […]
[…]ers and two brothers. And they were all in the film industry as well. They all worked either as actresses for the most part, also, the youngest was a child star. And then when the industry when he got to an age of it, like Shirley Temple, the time came, you know, your time is up pal, actually, and h[…]
[…]w York and then they did come to London and respectively had my parents. So sometimes I think I am Russian, but I grew up absolutely being an English child with no foreign languages around me or anything foreign.(TIME 01.09)DARROL BLAKE: And where was that?RENÉE GLYNNE: It began ... I was born in Ha[…]
[…]just was not good at selling. In 1992 Oscar was a refugee from Vienna, from Austria, and he felt the need to go back. He had left Vienna in 1938 as a child, he had come with his mother, who had got a permit, a domestic permit, to come to this country, and he unfortunately had had quite a difficult l[…]
[…]s and my writing to newspapers in Glasgow. And I learned a great deal from that. Linda Wood 1:28Did you were you interested in cinema as a child, Donald Wilson 1:32we had a touring cinema which came around to our town hall. And it was one of the because we had no radio no known[…]
