[…]bsp; guess we are talking about that. Now, I was fortunate because I didn't quite know how or why but I was asked to photograph at George Formby comedy at Ealing. And when they loaned me out to Ealing, and it was just it was a year before Michael Balcon went there, Basil Dean was still running […]
[…]nstructional stuff I would try, and if I saw it, or if I didn't see it, make it an opportunity for a little bit of light heartedness or even a bit of comedy. Was that acceptable? That was quite acceptable because they realized that if they'd be half an hour long or something. Well, that's out of a t[…]
[…]eer. Darrol Blake 8:00 Yes, but just before that started, you, it sounds as though you were in a nice little University of comedy writing or licenced statement writing and producing or were you in any way part of that creation? Or were you just employed as a performer?&nbs[…]
[…] a tie-up. And I remember they were quick, really low comedy as it were. But inoffensive because in those days […]
[…] Leslie Fuller to do these series of cheap, quick, B class films at Joe Rock's, you see they had a tie-up. And I remember they were quick, really low comedy as it were. But inoffensive because in those days one didn't put anything on the screen that might offend anybody. And he had a supporting come[…]
[…]er was Clive Dunn and the maid was an old actress called Totti Truman Taylor. The two of them that's it that consolidated it. I thought if I don't do comedy for the rest of my days, I'm going to kill myself. And I watched that... and Clive can only been in his 30s or something, then playing this but[…]
[…]h other’s throats, because they're not sympathetic with the way each other work. And it’s quite a business doing that.After the workshop, I’m doing a comedy at the Watermill called The Drummer and I’ll do the same with that. I’ll get the cast altogether before we actually start rehearsing. Did I tel[…]
[…] called 'Aunt Clara' which was Margaret Rutherford, all the low comedy, right? Alan Lawson: Ah hmm. Cyril Pennington-Richards: Not a […]
