[…]t the Queen Mother...er... the lady who is now the Queen Mother, called 'Britannia is a Woman'[?], er, and about two years later in '41, when I was a foreign correspondent with the Navy, or Naval correspondent, War correspondent, in the Middle East, um, I made my first ever ten or twenty, depending […]
[…] Bennett later moved to Hollywood, where he worked on Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent (1940). He returned to Britain for his directorial debut, […]
[…]ose all over the world. I mean, there was Africa constantly troubled and we were able…I mean, Robin Day in those days was still travelling as a Foreign Correspondent doing extremely well in South Africa. The whole of Rhodesia was up in flames. Kenya was still in trouble in those da[…]
[…]n Who Knew Too Much', 'The 39 Steps', 'Sabotage', 'Young and Innocent'... There's another one which I can't place at the moment.Arnold Schwartzman : 'Foreign Correspondent'?Charles Bennett : 'Foreign Correspondent'! That was here. And with 'The Man Who Knew Too Much' being made twice it was eight pi[…]
[…] in its early days, the technical problems of dealing with foreign films, the relationship with the BBFC (particularly with John […]
[…].Well say we, say we, why not?Isn't it funny, isn't it?No.Because the people, my friends here, say ‘You're one of us Elisabeth’, but I say ‘No, I'm a foreigner’. ‘But you're one of us Elisabeth’. ‘No I'm a foreigner’. Anyhow, my children used to say Mama the boys like you although you're a[…]
[…]conditions of the tenement houses and so forth. But of course I think what enthused us in that period of course was that - you see after all the only foreign films that one saw in England then were American films which dominated the whole thing, one didn't see films from other countries. Elsie Cohen[…]
[…] six of us, all left the Army, one in the Foreign Office, one went to Marks and Spencer’s, one was […]
[…]new budget would come in, and then he would have enough to feed us. Otherwise, we had just nothing. New from them was tremendous fun. It was my first foreign location. That was very exciting. Now, when was that then? That was 1948. IJohn Taylor 39:52 think you would have travelled that b[…]
[…][ph] because they thought they had a better range of jobs, because my secretarial college was quite new, very good, because the woman had been in the Foreign Office and she knew exactly, you know, she trained us very well indeed. And so the first interview I went to was at a shipping firm and I was […]
