[…]p;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 brought trucks of […]
[…]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[…]
[…] of Galsworthy's 'Escape', this chap asked those who worked in the play if they would like to earn a little extra money in the vacation through doing crowd work. So I spent two nights at Hyde Park Corner sitting by the Achilles Statue and all I remember – apart from getting £1 a night and getting fr[…]
[…]eat big bandage across his head, blood here, and Mugabe’s people say “You’ve been accused of [this]”. 1 hour 40 mins PB-C: Bit like a lynch crowd, frankly. We went into the tobacco sheds and he was confronted by the workers who, under normal circumstances, would have been terribly scared o[…]
[…]ted to do. And never any problem- you know when I came out the army after having been in the army - er - being in the Combined Services Entertainment Crowd in Malaya - which - which Peter Nichols wrote a play about later, as you know, well I met Stanley Baxter and Kenneth, Kenneth Williams - met the[…]
[…]a row with Irving Thalberg or whether he had a row with somebody. But he went out to Hollywood and I understand that in front of an open window and a crowd of several thousand extras Louis shouted at the top of his voice, 'If it takes a million dollars Balcon I'll break you' to which Mick quite righ[…]
[…]bsp;plans, but the next thing to happen was my involvement with"Far From the Madding Crowd" which I had always liked and I was beginning toshow a hint of some sort&n[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…] secret films to them. And they were a pretty nice crowd actually, they had some very decent officers there. A […]
[…]urs originally at one time, so what? You know, that sort of thing. I mean I'll never forget that when we were doing 'Kind Hearts' it was actually the crowd clothes there, Simmons where the costumes came from were extremely strict in the way that they let out clothes. And you weren't allowed back-sta[…]
