[…]ith the rushes I may say. The money dried up, one, two, we found that the rights of the play, the author Cannon was then living in Vancouver, British Columbia - he'd made a deal with a stage producer in New York which included the film rights. So that we were filming the thing, having bought the fil[…]
[…]tch the film on fire, through glass, so usually the windows were all painted green, it was horrible. The American studios were just the same, the old Columbia Studios in Hollywood, Weston and Gowers they were, they were awful, they were just little hellholes. One of the worse was Walton Studios, the[…]
[…]from silent to sound, it was also a great period for seeing films for there was a cinema called The Avenue Pavillion which was more or less where the Columbia is now and they showed an amazing variety of films from all over the world. One saw films Caligari and things like this and this made me feel[…]
[…] Silver Fleet' I had telegrams from MGM and Warner and Columbia, all offering me a contract, so that I couldn't […]
[…] now more relaxed. Made redundant when British Lion merged with Columbia. Great shock. Joined Mondial selling Italian cinemascope ratio films. […]
[…] I was with him until he sold the company to Columbia. And he then bought Loews Theatres in America, which […]
[…] Lewis Carroll and she was invited to New York University, Columbia University, New York to celebrate the occasion. And she […]
[…] Starr came to me. Yes. He's now the head of Columbia I think. What did he want you to do? […]
[…] disastrous relationship with Marshon Lassiter and Stanley Jaffe then of Columbia about a remake of In A Lonely Place which […]
