[…]they would just go on and do the show and it would be a bit rough the first house, and the dancers would sort of, just posture really, but it was the comedy, that was all the people had come for really and it was extraordinary. And the Queen's Theatre Glasgow was even rougher and that was the neares[…]
[…]. DS.Please Note: Dennis Main Wilson’s interview is not strictly chronological and contains strong views on politics, World War Two and – of course – comedy and light entertainment.Dennis Main Wilson Side 1Alan Lawson 0:00 The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT history pro[…]
[…]me. Then I started in 1935 with Varnel. And we went on right up until 1942, up to about 1941/2.RF: These pictures are now rightly regarded as British comedy classics. But they weren't always perceived so.VG: No, they weren't, indeed I remember the reviews we got of Oh, Mr Porter! were nothing. They […]
[…] had seven or eight weeks to make a Will Hay comedy and in those days all feature films only ran […]
[…] ’64 election was called the BBC schedule on that Thursday night included Steptoe, Steptoe & Son. Steptoe at that time was the most popular comedy programme on British television. The audiences were 12, 14, 15 million people. Marcia Falkender…Marcia Williams, as she then was, w[…]
[…]mes Television, mainly with Morecambe and Wise again, and eventually as a consultant at London Weekend Television responsible for many classics of TV comedy. But first, John, tell us where you were born and when? John Ammonds 1:46 Yes, well, I started life on the 21st of M[…]
[…]blicly available.Derek Threadgall 10:14 Would it be fair to say that with the membership of the society, we are talking about the kind of comedy that was very popular in Tony's day? London, the writers pee had? Would it be fair to say that by joining the society, people, especially, as y[…]
[…] marvelous, fertile period of German production,Speaker 1 15:12 see, besides Fritz Lang, you had lupic. Well, I thought for sophisticated comedy was a pass master. I mean, Erwin, I don't think has ever been when we maybe you say it very clear in some way, but he was a great, was a genius[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]ousemaster was Arthur Marshall now Arthur Marshall was not desperately well known to the public at that time because although he had been a writer of comedy and had appeared on radio he'd gone to the war and had returned to Arnold to teach again and was my housemaster now.SPEAKER: M2He was a man of […]
