[…] Anyway, there was a sort of group of… one casting director at each major studio and they worked principally through […]
[…]ts end and that was a kind of extraordinary tour de force on her part.ES: [Fading to barely audible] But your influence on it obviously, you were the director, you wrote it could you talk about briefly?30.00:LM: Well I really didn’t do much writing, I mean Peter did much more writing than I did, I m[…]
[…]. 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[…]
[…]d so forth. But say you, say you finished at five thirty, I mean if you've been able to keep up during the day, I mean it's, again, it depends on the director, I mean you might do seven or eight shots a day you might do twenty, and it depends how you have been able to keep up as to how many hours yo[…]
[…] - have you heard of her? She was a studio director, the Queen Bee of I.T.N. and she was famous […]
[…]k me but I didn't join in much, I suppose. Not like the famous DianaEdwards- Jones of I.T.N. Do you remember - have you heard of her? She was a studiodirector, the Queen Bee of I.T.N. and she was famous for joining the boys in the pub youknow being one of them. That's how she got on so well in a man[…]
[…]r by our commanding officer, which was Teddy Baird, and Pat Moyner[?], and they said, "The Rank Organisation are looking desperately for an assistant director and there isn't anybody available," you see, the war was still on. So he said, "What we're going to do, we're going to give you a pass that s[…]
[…]t it, Archie Mayo directed it. Now remember on an exterior scene - because I was always anxious to get out on the set because I always wanted to be a director, not a writer - he had a big, high tower and it swayed in the wind. And Archie was a tremendously fat man and got dizzy very easily. So he we[…]
[…] it, but anyway, that's what got me going, because I I kept taking things to Vogue, but Patrick Matthews suggestions, John Parsons, who was their art director, and he never liked me or the pictures, but he kept saying, Okay, you're doing very well. Come back and so on. But I mean, you can't feed the[…]