Leonard (Len) Harris

[…]ee you know so... [chuckles] Who was in the Elstree picture? I think Lewis Gilbert directed it. I'm trying to think - oh yeah... girl, great song and dance artist she was at the time. Jack Watling was the leading man but the star, I can't remember... [NB Possibly Pat Kirkwood in 'Once a Sinner'] Any[…]

Francis Gysin

[…]p;strung around inside the thing and they were originally used for REM song and dance films that ran for about three minutes to two minutes up to two two t[…]

John Aldred

[…]are some of the things I remember from my days at MGM. They're also my introduction to Gene Kelly. He came over to do a film called Invitation to the Dance. That was done entirely on playback. It was his own idea. They'd given him carte blanche to do whatever he liked and he came over and directed t[…]

Charles Potter

[…]l Road, Cromwell Road, Kensington in September. I went right through the Blitz, heavy rescuing and involved and and so on so forth. And used to go to dances at this story in the West End, and you. Never saw anything about it. Never thought. Never lost a nice sleep. Well, I didn't last night because […]

Denis Forman

[…]nectionwith Highland dancing and Highland balls and Highland regiments, during the Cambridge period Iwas President of the Caledonian Club and I was a dancer, I danced a lot, Highland dancing. So myfriends were all going into the Argylls and I thought I would like to go into the Argylls and I gotinto[…]

Len Runkel

[…]t record. I was the first flute.Unknown Speaker  17:20  Yeah. Well, my great pleasure was jazz, though, really, you know, you played in the dance band that made money, but there were lots of places you could, you could go to play jazz. There was a place in the Seven Sisters road.Unknown Sp[…]

Geoff Hermges

BEHP transcript DisclaimerThis transcript has been produced automatically using Otter, https://get.otter.ai/interview-transcription/.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for[…]

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[…] dancing before you... Roy Fowler: Ideal, ideal, well let them dance. Now how did you all feel about the films […]
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