[…]e Indian rajas and greedier battalions to symbolise attitudes to food because I've been in the army and been to India. I was as it were, in charge of costume, the Indian secrets, and so forth. And I remember we had to get special permission for Ministry of Food for the eggs and ham and flour to make[…]
[…]ough, yeah, he still wants to, he pulls out another… idea, he wants to rewrite it on the spot, which is different props, different scenery, different costumes. Oh, yeah, and then he gets upset because everybody goes wild, and says, “The BBC don't like me.” Rubbish!Anyway, it all boiled up in the end[…]
[…]ortant cameraman. You were also working for key designers.CC: Yes. Junge. A real old German martinet, a wonderful designer, Hein Heckroth who did the costumes. He was also German but totally different from Alfred Junge.KGY: Can you say something about their styles.CC: They couldn't be more opposite […]
[…]n, Charlie, oh yes, with again dear Cavalcante directing that had Tommy Trinder, Betty Warren and. Of Stanley Holloway and Jane Hilton in it. And the costumes, I remember it so vividly because the costumes were so beautiful, and Betty Marsden sang, and for the first time, you know, looked as though […]
[…] actors round, making sketches for the clothes and doing the costumes! I had no time to help Mac at all. […]
[…] o'clock and we'd do a run-through of the show in costume and finish at twelve. And then the whole of […]
[…] Benjamin Britten was there and Elizabeth Haffenden who did the costumes and anyhow, Priestly very quietly suddenly stood up and […]
[…] made calls for Marcel Veser? they have to design the costumes and we got some of the costumes we did […]
[…]ut ten, ten-thirty, and then I, by now, would come on on Christmas Day morning, we'd come in at nine o'clock and we'd do a run-through of the show in costume and finish at twelve. And then the whole of the staff, the technicians, the stage crew and all the artists would sit down to a Christmas lunch[…]
