Douglas Slocombe

[…]ay, oh yes. Now following that one then did Nijinsky, a lovely subject, you know, with, with,Speaker 1  12:14  can remember the name of the dancer they used in it. It was, it was, it was a young man, anyway, who I don't think had ever done anything before. They should really have, they sho[…]

Alf Cooper

[…]r Allen...We sit down, up comes empty glasses and then come full bottles on the table.Oh yes., gin, whisky, vodka, splits.And then one of the topless dancers come over ‘do you want one’? [Laughter]You only had to mention... I said, you know, „she‟s a big girl isn‟t she‟? „Do you want her, do yo[…]

Kay Mander

[…]ons. Debries at Denham because I remember Gus...AL: Holdberg? Drisse.Kay Mander: Gus Drisse! Was a most beautiful operator, he was just like a ballet dancer, you know, the whole movement, because he was on a friction head and all the rest of it, he was beautiful to watch.Sidney Cole: You seem to hav[…]

Robert Beatty

[…]ne the ape sequences, they were still monkeying around with that, how they were going to achieve those apes .  I think they ended up with ballet dancers and things like that, they were talking about going over to China and trying to get little people in order to dress them up at that time, it w[…]

Tilly Day

[…]s it... it doesn't say anything on the back.Tilly Day: No...Sidney Cole: Can you remember what this was?Tilly Day: That was two famous dancers were dancing there. You had an awful lot of men around didn't you, in those days? I mean there were lighting blokes, you know...Alan Lawson:&n[…]

Harry Miller

[…] give you a pound or a couple of pounds you know.  Then all the chorus rooms where there was say seven or eight girls or, so many others, we had dancers and showgirls in those days, and they’d all put something together and the dresser used to collect it and give it to you every Saturday night […]

Alan Lawson

[…]at school.Arthur Graham: So it was part time. What decided you to go into the film business.Alan Lawson: My sister was on the stage, she was a ballet dancer and I think when I was due to leave school which would have been July 1928 I think she'd had almost one solid year unemployment and I thought I[…]

Winston (Wyn) Ryder

[…] and mouth, a bad outbreak of foot and mouth, [disease] and he had the young men, they were there for three months and they did ape noises, the young dancers who dressed up and did [imitates apes] “Ugh, Ugh, Ugh” and it was snow everywhere and he's always full of gimmicks and electronic things.[10.0[…]

Richard (Dickie) Best

[…]ly after I joined, again to do “joining”, he had ReggieMills, a very famous editor in his own right. He also had Nicky Brucewho was son of the ballet dancer Karsavina who was married to BruceLockhart [Henry James Bruce?] the famous writer and diplomat. All thesepeople were on this David Lean film, w[…]

ARMSTRONG, Moira BECTU copy

[…] Moira? Bluebell was about Madame Bluebell who ran the Bluebell Dancers in Paris. Thank you. I thought everybody would know […]
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