[…] used to go to the Mercury Theatre where Marie Rambert started the ballet club. On Sundays, I used to go there, and you'd meet a lot of designers and dancers and so forth. And I was very interested in all that and so I used to have dreams of becoming a costume designer and that's about as far as it […]
[…]you see. And there she was a Russian poor peasant girl and the prince comes along and all that. And they engaged of course, the ballet on the lot, to dance on the lot, you know, outside at night after they came from, off Covent Garden and every night it rained.This...They never took, they never took[…]
[…]er than a purely national picture.Roy Fowler: I suppose too people were going more to the cinema, so much more wasdenied themMaurice Carter: The attendances were very good.Roy Fowler: During the war attendances were way way up. Was that Ted BlackproducingMaurice Carter, Almost sure it was.Roy Fowler[…]
[…]ut… I mean that… I found that very uncomfortable I found the fact that the blacks on the films were, at the end of the picture party, would ask me to dance and I danced and the whites looked to see whether I would do it. And I said I’m going to and I remind you that this picture is being paid for by[…]
[…]u get in Johnny Speight: Yes, but by mistake. I was working in a factory and a friend, a guy I knew, we'd formed a little band and we were playing at dances, or trying to play at dances, we were mainly practising in each others' front rooms as long as the parents whose house it was, so we were movin[…]
[…]al, a discussion on stage of what they were going to do, what music they were going to play, in the pit was a pretty ropy old band, and they had four dancers one of whom was Jimmy Logan's first wife, who had no choreography or anything. And they would just go on and do the show and it would be a bit[…]
