Cyril Pennington-Richards

[…]madly in love with Thomas Hardy's work, that was the trouble, that was why it was called Wessex. The second one was going to be 'Far From the Madding Crowd', but of course he never got the money for it. In fact 'Esther Waters' has never been shown. It was shown, after three days at Uxbridge they had[…]

Edward Dryhurst

[…]n't think even to this day what made me do it, I should have known better. I joined one scene in the rushes upside down, and when they went on into a crowded theatre - Mr Baggot very much in evidence - this scene came on and all hell was let loose! Baggot raised hell, he created such a row I can hea[…]

Jack Hildyard

[…] the whole place open for these boats, doing about 40 miles an hour most of the time. And ISpeaker 1  42:05  and then we had the problem of crowds coming and watching, which was responsibility of the other police, yes, trying to keep the areas on the roads clear. Yes, clear, but they did i[…]

Bessie Bond (née Span)

[…]rs, I can’t remember how we achieved that but we had one. And my mother brought them in and I thought that this was my opportunity, the place was overcrowded, mind you we all slept in the same bed in the kitchen - that was the three of us, my mother, I slept with my mother and the two sisters slept […]

Cyril Pennington

[…] second one was going to be 'Far From the Madding Crowd', but of course he never got the money for […]
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