[…]eful what you do next. What is this Midnight Cowboy, it sounds very odd. Do be careful. So it was a dreadful 5½ hour trip at the end of which various executives of MGM met us and said you must be awfully tired, we've cancelled the party tonight. Well now I'm hip, I know what that meant.They weren't […]
[…]there was nobody I didn’t like, and I met them all in the course of that 17 years, carpenters, painters, scenery, all of them.RF: How about the executives and the senior production staff Balcon and such people as Sid for example.UB: Very, very nice, I got on very well with them. I used to come[…]
[…]ngworth who did Upstairs Downstairs, what was his name?Hawkesworth.Yes. He was very nice, he was trained there. I worked with him, but he was an assistant art director, he was, he was Vincent’s assistant, that's right. He was Vincent’s assistant. And then there were the Korda children came up, […]
[…]er During my training, and decided that would be the kind of thing I'd like to do. My parents had a very good friend who was, in fact, he was the top executive of Ranks production, and said he would sort of start me in the film industry. That was awesome. John was awesome, John. Yeah. Which, in fact[…]
[…]bsp;you off but he would defend you as well. He'd always defend you at the executive. He'd always come in on your side. Exactly. But he was a way to. […]
[…]net.com.Speaker 1 0:03 This interview is the copyright of the ACTT history project. It's being recorded on the fifth of april 1988 in the executive room at 111 Water Street. The subject is Muriel Cowell, and the interviewer is said, co no relation, right?Unknown Speaker 0:23 […]
[…]aw. When I did Oh, What a Lovely War, 1968, we showed it at the Plaza, I sat with Dickie Attenborough, it was a Paramount picture. The Paramount executive came to me and he said, 'Bill, this is the best colour print I've ever seen.' I said, 'Well, it's a very good print but ... I think we've to[…]
