[…] know people say, "Oh that's ridiculous." But I mean it did actually happen.Roy Fowler: In the light of that story and knowing you were later at Denham, is it true there was a sign at Denham that said, "To be Hungarian is not enough"?E.M. Smedley-Aston: Um well there was a story...I did go[…]
[…]erview at Shepperton with John Cox, who did his best to frighten me and suggested I shouldn't go into the business. And he said, "Well when we get to Denham there'll be some jobs going, but at the moment we've got nothing for you." So my little bit of string-pulling there - or my father's - did no g[…]
[…]member that Lord Louie used his influence and helped us obtain the unobtainable. And we built two thirds of a full size destroyer in the big stage at Denham. And the whole of this two thirds of this destroyer was were on hydraulic, rock rocking and rolling platforms. The whole thing was it was a fan[…]
[…]sp;                        at Denham studios, because Pinewood Studio, having opened in 1936 closed in 38, not because of  the war, so many people say that,&nbs[…]
[…]irls and editors. And of course, very early on my hero became David Lean, because at that time he was doing Great Expectations. I’d been, I’d been to Denham a couple of visits, I’d got taken round the studios, and I had visited Brief Encounter and, Caesar and Cleopatra, the one with Claude Rains, an[…]
[…]Holiday, 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[…]
[…]hink at that time he was fairly short of funds and they lived in a modest way in Gerrards Cross and I think he was only too glad to be called back to Denham studios to do this small ...Jonathan Balcon  16:28  Well that's fascinating because there were great problems between Rains and Pasca[…]
[…]d lived in London 'cause my father went to the Ministry of Education as a Medical Officer. I was educated at Dulwich College Preparatory School, in Aldenham, after which I went to the Architectural Association, where I did a 5-year course in architecture and in 1928 I became an associate of the Roya[…]
[…]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[…]
