Charles Picken

[…] sequence from the film that had been made up specially for the Odeon Leicester Square premiere. Maurice also provided some of the Blofeld’s henchmen costumes and gadget displays to mount an elaborate display in our inner foyer area. Add in a car model similar to that used in the film, courtesy of a[…]

Peter Stuart Mullins

[…]?PM: Well, theatre. DB: Oh yes, let’s talk a bit about that. This is some time ago.PM: Well again, yes. In ’49 onwards, when I was making props, costumes for Hugh Skillen, so via that, got involved with Cecil Beaton, Oliver Messel. I worked with Oliver Messel quite a bit. There was The Royal Op[…]

Chris Menges

[…]he writing and then once you say “I’m into this” the… of course, you’re in a collaboration with the director, a producer, with the designer, with the costume designer, with everybody, with the writer, with the actors. And you’re trying to find a balance through all these different talents to make a […]

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[…] agents in these places that whenever Anna Neagle appeared in costume as Queen Victoria, the Royal Standard must go up. […]

L P (Bill) Williams

[…] and Windsor Castle, all these places) there was definite instruction to the factors and agents in these places that whenever Anna Neagle appeared in costume as Queen Victoria, the Royal Standard must go up. Because he'd noticed that in 'Victoria the Great' that Queen Victoria had appeared around th[…]

Nancy Thomas

[…]n Evening when the whole of the evening was devoted to a reconstruction of telly as it might have been under Elizabeth I. They were all dressed up in costumes, Mortimer Wheeler cooked an Elizabethan meal out of the remains of some [incomp – 41:56] he’d found and I mean it was quite extraordinary. An[…]
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