[…]oyd George's speech at the mansion house. And we were only given a scene for the day before David and I he had to build a set and I got him on to the costumes as well because I couldn't do them all and I had cast this whole collection in Turning somebody preloaded short overnight. We shot the street[…]
[…]hat was 1948 John Schlesinger: It was 1948 and it was, petrol rationing was still in force and clothes rationing. We sent out a little prototype costume for the crowd to be made out of white sheets and blackout material for skirts, and all the local vicars wives sort of rounded up extras and br[…]
[…]We were carrying these back to the audience. When folksiness with various parts of lady's anatomy, we went to the local theatre and borrowed a lot of costumes, and a bag cloth. And we had our own restaurant costumes because we had a full size stage and we used to do in the old days the did Cindy var[…]
[…]ng to be overrun with water.And they had a better (cough), logistically better beach in theRepublic. But of course all the gear and the props and the costumes and s crew members they all virtually came from here. And the other two thirds were shot on Hatfield Air Field and we, the British Film Commi[…]
[…]ithout Dharma, which starred Marlene Dietrich ish, and Robert Donette. And was fascinating film about the revolution in Russia. Now I happen to fit a costume apparently they the scene that they were shooting was a Marlene Dietrich she was the debutante in some Petersburg being presented a court to t[…]
[…]ooting, and, you know, it would just, a fairly, you know, chance, you know, rough affair. But this wasn’t; all perfect sets, beautiful sets,beautiful costumes. Everything just looked like out of the film. Real actors. And Albert. And, we had, we shot these two test as I said. And the first one, I we[…]
[…]e play hadn't started. This was still in the rehearsing period. We all went up there. Benjamin Brittain was there and Elizabeth Haffenden who did the costumes and anyhow, Priestly very quietly suddenly stood up and said "Basil, as you know I have got a lot of money put into this thing, and I have to[…]
[…]dn't we, I didn't hire all the right people, and some heads had to roll. And there was about three weeks into the shoot, there were problems with the costume department and problems with various locations department, it was going tits up, and so I had this sort of Night of the Long Knives, when I sa[…]
[…] Henry Edwards?JK: I seem to remember Henry Edwards smoked Turkish cigarettes. Anyway I was only there as a double for Winifred Shotter in a swimming costume. She goes out on the rocks with her boyfriend I think and they don’t see the tide coming in so she has to swim back to shore. I was there for […]
