Peggy Hyde-Chambers (nee Rignold)

[…]on any of his films?No, not on any of his, no. Actually it’s all getting a bit faint then, now. And then, ohthen we got married and, and Derek was at Denham I think or Pinewood.But on demob?Or Elstree or MGM. Mm?On demob, he was on demob?Was he, was he?Well, he must have been demobbed if he was...Oh[…]

Cyril Pennington-Richards

[…]time ago, but I can almost remember then. Because they were shooting that film when Eddie Dmytryk and I were making 'Obsession'.Colin Moffat: At Denham?Cyril Pennington-Richards: At Pinewood.Alan Lawson: Pinewood, Pinewood, yes.Cyril Pennington-Richards: 'Give Us This Day' was De[…]

Albert Critoph

[…] such a beautiful place travel in Deauville. So very, very shishi place. But very, very nice, lovely, from time to time. For some reason, some of the Denham films, as I say, obviously saying Denham films, I mean Denham  studios, there's one or two extra shots to be to be shot, extra shots. Mayb[…]

Christopher Challis

[…] heard that Technicolor was coming in to make Wings of the Morning but only one film but they were bringing practically everyone with them. I went to Denham with a 10t of cheek and no experience and asked to see a man named George Kay, head of the camera department in Hollywood, who set the thing up[…]

Oswald (Ossie) Morris

[…]home and I'd write all these letters to the studio. I must have written. 10 or 20 all the various duties I got to know who to write Bertie's e was at Denham although  I never met her he was one I wrote to and Bill Haggis at Elstree I wrote too. I forget who was in charge of B and D the tim[…]

The art of film grading: Bill Girdlestone

[…] Rank snapped up Alexander Korda’s brand-new but heavily-mortgaged studios at Denham; and in 1941 it acquired Gaumont-British and Gainsborough. In […]

Cornel Lucas

[…] watch film.NA: with your brother presumably?CL: No. No. On my own.NA: Ok00.14.29CL: So my dream was film. And when I got back I had to get a job and Denham Studios, I wrote to them and told them my background and they said ‘yes by all means come in and work as an assistant.’ Which I did.NA: That’s […]

Peter Graham Scott

[…]r cheeky German schoolboy, who comes in, ‘Hier Ritter.. (indistinct). And er..(laughing) It’s just in the film! With er, Roy Balting.Interviewer – At Denham?Peter – No, at Highbury. Highbury was a sort-of converted church hall, and they – the Baltings were desperate to save money. They had no money […]
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