[…], you see. It was... My idea was... ...do you remember that film, where Shirley MacLaine and Anne Bancroft played old friends? Where one was a ballet dancer. They'd been friends together and then it fell apart. Anyway, I wanted to do a film because there's very short... ...there are very few films f[…]
[…]ose productions where there wasn’t enough money to do it properly.What was the subject Moira? Bluebell was about Madame Bluebell who ran the Bluebell Dancers in Paris. Thank you. I thought everybody would know that. [Laughter][Laughter] And, mm, and it was about her, her life really and how she came[…]
[…] we made it all at Shepperton, it was like doing films in one, because we had all the sort of dramatic stuff on the stages and then anything that the dancers were doing was on probably the outdoor set, or something else. So there was an awful lot of, wardrobe here, stage there, the outdoor stage the[…]
[…]great success, and the stuff that we did was very good. Moving orchestra, bringing an orchestra up, taking it back to stage as she's going backstage, dancers coming in from the wings, you know - dancing to The Blue Danube', because this was Johann Strauss junior, not senior. So within a week of that[…]
[…]o I had to work himself into a frenzy and you know he he was there at the time he got up to the speed the way he did it. His legs were dancing like a dancer underneath the chair. And he said I never realized I used to do things like that but that's the way it was and the kind of energy and and it wa[…]
[…]duction of 'The Miracle', which was with Diana Manners and Glen Byam Shaw, in which I was the ASM, which is Assistant Stage Manager, and also I was a dancer and small part player. And the job I had, most exciting job I had was - to try and make this as short as possible - that 'The Miracle' is based[…]
[…]nnifer Gay, yes.Peggy Hyde-Chambers. Tape 1 Side A3That’s right.And...Television child announcer?That’s right.Yes, yes.Yes. And then she was a ballet dancer.Yes, that’s right.And then she grew a bit too tall I believe.That’s right, yes, yes. Anyway coming back to, coming back to you. When, I know yo[…]
[…] is a bit Cavalier. And then there was a wonderful new rule going out live. We had Houston being interviewed in one half of the Moulin Rouge. And the dancers in the orchestra and the other half sharing, divided by this curious drawing shutters I specifically. And then the night we had Laurel and Har[…]
[…] about Tales of Hoffman. Hoffman.Noreen Ackland 0:29 It was quite a mixture of artists, you know, the singers yet, and the actors and the dancers. And it was it was really a very interesting. Well, it was an exciting production that with Robbie, Bobby Helpmann, and Robert round as well, […]
