[…]Universal in their heyday, either before or immediately after the war. It was a fantastic number of people that we had down in the film department in Ealing. I don't know what it is at the moment but I shouldn't think it's any less at the moment.Arthur Graham: You referred to Ealing, you'd moved fro[…]
[…]e buyer and see what hecould pick up.Roy Fowler: For the filmMaurice Carter: For himself and the film.Roy Fowler: He did dealsMaurice Carter: He did dealing.Roy Fowler He was from the East End of LondonMaurice Carter: Yes, I think originally his father was a cantor and Vetch is reputed tohave been t[…]
[…] so I went off to see him, and he said in his rather pompous way "We’re starting a film studio. Perhaps you would like to go down and see it, it’s at Ealing". So I said "Oh yes I would like to". He said "Well go down and look at it, it’s not open yet and when we start, perhaps you would like to be t[…]
[…] she really gave me hell, Peggy, she won't mind my saying so now, but she did. First of all we were at Worton Hall for a short time. Then we moved to Ealing with was ARP.Roy Fowler: ATPPeter Tanner: No even before it was ATP it was ARP which was to do with RKO. It was that transition betwe[…]
[…], I mean I'm talking personally about him to you this afternoon on the whole, but I think probably Winnington was writing about him, his influence at Ealing studios, in which case it probably wasn't fair, you know. But if you pursue the metaphor and take away the puritan for a moment then the patern[…]
[…]u and I are at Baker’s Hill, Iver, at seven o’clock or something tonight”. Do you know Hugh Stewart? What’s the name of the bloke who ran Ealing Studios, he was a commandant there? [BACKGROUND DISCUSSION]. Michael Balcon is the commandant there. We were in the ack ack, we are in th[…]
[…]nd shoved into that. And that was where Sergei saw me. 14 minutes 5 seconds SC: So what happened in the war years? DM: I went to Ealing. SC: You went at the beginning of the war. You didn’t go to Ealing at the beginning of the war...? I suppose you did, because you worked o[…]
[…]I went up a notch to that, then they shut down Lime Grove completely , and I was very lucky because a pal of mine who was a camera operator worked at Ealing Studios, and he phoned me up and said 'you can come here'. So I went to Ealing, which was a great break because at Gaumonts at Lime Grove the r[…]
[…]e days they were rather frowned upon by the bourgeois.Roy Fowler: How about the theatre?Eddie Dryhurst: Pardon?Roy Fowler: Did your parents have any dealings with the theatre, did they enjoy going to that?Eddie Dryhurst: None at all. My mother was a farmer's daughter, my father was a hotelier's son.[…]
[…]d that enormously. But again, that ceased because 20th has stopped production. But through Fox, British, I heard I was introduced to Ernie Marlowe of Ealing studios, who employed me as his secretary, but failed to let me know that I also had to work for Colin Leslie, who was production supervisor an[…]
