[…]r films to?Joy Batchelor: I really adored Len, didn't know McLaren so well. I liked Len partly because he was so amusing, and also he was a very good dancer. God, he was a good dancer! [laughs] He used to project, just loops and loops of film that really wasn't anything. Just interesting and with a […]
[…]I know that one of the chaps there, petio Goon, was with us, said, My God, that's a big girl on the end there they were topless. And of course, these dancers and Ray said to him, do you want her later? And it would all have been our technicals expenses, you know. So you talk about perks, I've no dou[…]
[…]alk her into doing a picture for us”, Yo had done all this in Hollywood, she'd been in movies, she was under contract to MGM as the youngest contract dancer, they had danced and learnt with Micky Rooney and Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, they'd practised all together, she'd done all that. I did manage to[…]
[…]ll the big stuff at Riverside, and I shall not forget that, because on the first day, I had a quick high top shot of the entire studio and A band and dancers and goons. I had a camera right up in the balcony, and started off up there, sort of pretty usual, open to the type of thing, which is effecti[…]
[…] singing at a children ’s matinee before becoming a child dancer at the age of six. Her first regular work […]
[…] auditioned at The Windmill, and got taken on as a dancer in musical parodies. Did some understudying too. Sustained a […]
[…] The Palace, Alexandra Danilova and Leonide Massine. Mm. Were famous dancers, as you know, and we had them in as […]
[…] and Anna May Wong, Pearl Argyle who was a ballet dancer, one of the most beautiful creatures I've ever seen. […]
[…] was so amusing, and also he was a very good dancer. God, he was a good dancer! [laughs] He used […]
