[…]d thought it was a good idea to make the play anyway. But by the end of the War we couldn't go on making films about the war and then came the Ealing comedy Series and in some ways Mick was happier being studio head when those films were being made than when we'd been making the more serious stuff.T[…]
[…] 1956 adaptation of George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty - Four, comedy Lucky Jim in 1957 and a year later in […]
[…] Please Sir, there was this big think of getting popular comedy, popular sitcoms, massively popular, somewhat crap and racist now […]
[…] Interviewee: Manny Yospa Tape 1, Side 1 Manny Yospa: ...musical comedy, she had a small part in one, she acted […]
[…] Herbert Wilcox that was directing it. 'Thark', that's another Aldwych comedy that we did. Rodney Giesler : Sorry - what […]
[…] ballet danced again and again and again - and therefore comedy is not, of course, of the same standard of […]
[…] making films about the war and then came the Ealing comedy series and in some ways Mick was happier being […]
[…] tight gingham, broderie anglaise and denim for Christie in the comedy The Fast Lady (1962), as well as the mod-style […]
[…] that year was an old friend, Bob Dunbar, likewise a writer/producer. As with all of us, Bob’s career had experienced […]
[…]ds went to art school, there were five of us, went to [unintelligible]. So I did a three-year course. When I came out, my father, who was a sign writer and, I’m not joking, he was bloody clever you know and I still don’t know how he did it or where he learnt it, but in those days, there were no[…]
