Jill Balcon (Day-Lewis)

[…]:34  No, it would have been silent. But I can also remember, long after that, when I was growing up, and very aware of films and actors and directors and the world of cinema, that's what my father did ,was the constant stream of visitors to the house. My parents were extremely hospitable. […]

Cyril Page

[…]. Um...just go back for seconds...These things come to my mind...Um...I got an award, at the BBC, and Rene Cutforth. So we had to go and see um...the Director General...Haley...and er up to Broadcasting House, and get a glass of sherry and a...lunch and all that, and he said, "Well, on behalf of the[…]

Peggy Hyde-Chambers (nee Rignold)

[…]er stuck with Bunny Parsons.Yes.Yes, we got, we were rather sort of closely knitted we were a little family. And do you remember John Norman, the art director, a big dark fellow?Yes, yes.Yes. Well, what happened to him is he, he needn’t have gone in to the Army at all but I did. I needn’t have done […]

Nick Ardizzone

[…] by accident, I fell into the film industry. I had been drinking with a friend of mine who had been at art school, who was by this time and assistant director working at Shepperton. And heknew of a small documentary company who in the summer of nine, what was his name? Michael Grey, he was he was th[…]
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