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[…] who kept the units going.  I mean Mick admits in his book that he saw the synopsis for Lavender Hill Mob and never thought it would make a good comedy. Of course, Johnson Massey loved it because it was all about their refinery in effect. And this is what the original story was going to be abou[…]

[…]ime. It was a very unsatisfactory life.Interviewer (unidentified): You said that you wrote realistic sort of material. Were you influenced by realist writers - I'm thinking of Zola and stuff like that?Jill Craigie: Well I went to two Belgian convents, and one of them I ran away from. I was sent ther[…]

[…]ure that it's it's like the the the the films of improvisation. It's possible Dave was acting me? No, no, the director I was doing the modern British comedy. Lee, Mike Lee. Yes. Mike Lee is, it does tend to be hit or miss. Frankly, some of it  is marvellous and exciting. But it definitely depen[…]

[…]hristmas production that they did one year, I can't remember which year "1066 and All That" in which Russell Waters, who was a very well known actor, comedy actor, I think, played the lead, the common man in 1066. And all these names I've mentioned, and many, many other guests came and the show ran […]

[…]he time - and he said to me, "Now come down to the theatre every night and I'll put you in the prompt corner and you can listen and learn how to play comedy." Now that has been marvellous for me for the rest of my life, because listening to these three playing it, you realised how they phrased the l[…]

[…]e Roome who I think was... Andy Worker: Yeah he was there, hmm. Roy Fowler: There seems to have been, what, a double thread in production - comedy on the one hand and these rather full-blown melodramas, I suppose was liked by women's audiences? Andy Worker: I'll tell you an interestin[…]

[…] corner and you can listen and learn how to play comedy." Now that has been marvellous for me for the […]

[…]chard was most amusing and he was a doctor, of course, he was actually and wrote to me and made the film. Tell me if it hurts about dentistry in 31st comedy, I think, well, like it made this film for the interests of this set. COI or mo I can't recall the central office information or the Ministry o[…]