Search Results for: Denham Studios

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

[…]d, wellI can’t help you now, but when you’re demobbed, let me know. And she gave me an introduction to Elizabeth Haffenden at the old Shepherd’s Bush Studios. So I went to see her when I was demobbed. And she didn’t need an assistant then but Yvonne Caffin didand so I was taken on by Yvonne and star[…]

[…]onaries singing the song of the revolution, which I've written anyway, and who was the director of that? Hugh, what was he called you to live over in Denham?Unknown Speaker  41:36  Oh, known so well everybody would know who it was. So would know who it was.Speaker 2  41:43  And h[…]

[…]irst film working for art director Ralph Brinton; 1949, worked as assistant art director on Captain Horatio Hornblower, one of the last films made at Denham, in charge of designing Hornblower’s boat and constructing it in the south of France; Hornblower started his career as a ship expert, designing[…]

[…] people who'd made Night Mail. And I found out where the GPO Film Unit were, they were in Soho Square. So I went there and I was told they'd moved to Denham. And I got the name of the woman who was responsible for employing people, who I was told was called a Production Manager. And being very cheek[…]

[…] and there were masses of fruit trees and I was horrified at all this fruit going to waste. I was climbing up a cherry tree one day and they rang up, Denham studios and said Leslie Howard was doing a film and would I go over and do an audition and I said I can't I hadn't washed my hair in a week, co[…]

[…] Stationed at Wunsdorf and took charge of Luftwaffe prisoners. (Visited Denham during the war and got a taste for the […]