[…]iday, do you remember Bank Holiday, which Carol Reed directed. CB: No, no, was she in that?
I: She’s in that, oh yes. Lucky Days directed by Reggie Denham.CB: Oh! Lucky Days was the first time I used ChilliI: Was it?CB: Yes! Because there was a sort of hint in the paper. Lucky days for Chili again[…]
[…]rk. I was building concrete styes and digging the ground, gravel it was on gravel and at the end of the day my leg was killing me. And then I went to Denham Labs, and became a printer. And that opened my eyes. The standard of work in a laboratory – I’m sure it’s changed now but a dupe neg would come[…]
[…] about that film which we were both associated with at Denham Studios all those years ago, 1942 in fact. Would you […]
[…]I got off very lightly on that occasion. Later on when I left Shepperton. I was made redundant after 12 weeks, I did get some training when I went to Denham studios but I'm jumping ahead a bit. Nothing happened at Shepperton.Peter Musgrave: This was pretty short, 12 weeks at Shepperton, presumably o[…]
EXTRACT:-"A chap I knew said would I like to come down to Denham. I said, 'I don’t think I know enough about fibrous plastering.' He said, 'Well, come down because they could do with men, because they’re busy.' They were doing 'Elephant Boy' and things like that at the time, a[…]
[…] the Navy. Roy Fowler: Right. So you were based at Denham then, in the late thirties? Vernon Sewell: What? Roy […]
[…]alright if it was a bad production, like, for example, Mother Riley, it was sandwiches or something like that. Anyway, I got the first time I went to Denham Studios was on a film called night without Dharma, which starred Marlene Dietrich ish, and Robert Donette. And was fascinating film about the r[…]
[…]ished the picture, and then we went over to New York for the American premiere, with Yo. We got very good reviews.RF: Where did you do the interiors? Denham? Pinewood?VG: Pinewood.RF: Of course, Denham would be closed by thenVG: I don’t know, I think it was closed by then. It was a shame. I never wo[…]
[…]tudio, they were the three directors of the movie. And it was after that movie that I went into the Navy.Roy Fowler: Right. So you were based at Denham then, in the late thirties?Vernon Sewell: What?Roy Fowler: You were based at Denham in the late thirties?Vernon Sewell: Yes, yes[…]
[…]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[…]
