Erwin Hillier

[…]y times, and delightful wife. He was a very charming man who, again, see life was too kind to him to have any sort of great ambitions, same with Ivan Fox, where I work believe years later. Sir Noel, delightful person, the English on cooler memorandum. He was a producer. And the delightful people, bu[…]

Ronald Neame

[…]ad dinner with Charles Bennett two months ago. Who is 92 I think, and who believe it or not, is at this moment. Rewriting Blackmail. For 20th Century Fox because they are planning a remake. I don't know whether it'll ever be made. But what happened was that very, very hastily. They turned one of the[…]

Philip Donnellan

[…] pineapple hand grenades under the table in their briefcases.  And all the different sectarian interests who were prepared to, ranging from Paul Fox the editor of Panorama, the Tonight team, Michael Peacock all these people who in later years left the BBC and dominated British television and th[…]

Sydney Samuelson

[…]centre of Birmingham because if, if it had been hit of course twenty streets would have gone up if, because they were all there, MGM, and Warners and Fox and Paramount and Colombia, were all around John Bright Street in Birmingham.They’d moved out into a country house about five miles outside Birmin[…]

Paul Fox

 VOICE FILE NAME:    Paul Fox Side 1I    =    Interviewer  -  Norman SwallowR    =    Paul FoxM    =    Alan Lawsons.l.    =    sounds like I:&nb[…]

Edward Dryhurst

[…] an earnest, lean young man called Denison Clift who had come over and made one or two pictures for Ideal. I sorted him out. He was under contract at Fox then. He was a bit taken aback to see me I may say. I'd told him back here that I was going to Hollywood - I don't think he took that very serious[…]

Chili (Dorothy) Bouchier

[…]ny anecdotes that I could remember about him when he worked for all the big American companies. He worked for Columbia, and MGM and Twentieth Century Fox, and all the big stars that came over at that time, in the fifties and sixties, like (?) Power (?) and, umm, who have we got as well...well, wonde[…]

Dennis Main Wilson

[…] over a jar. [Side 5, 43 mins]The moment the election booths close at 10 o’clock on voting day, they can’t stop us. So I put up the idea to Paul Fox who then I think was Controller 1, wasn’t he?NS: Yes. DMW: So that's it, we had studio E, I'd think, in Lime Grove, built a pub. I d a minima[…]

Clyde Jeavons

[…]twenty titles a year or something like that, and other studiosfollowed suit. Universal. Strangely not so much MGM, but certainly Universal,Paramount, Fox all now do a modicum of restoration work, usually on selectedtitles. But it does mean they are looking at catalogues, and beginning to findnot jus[…]

Charles Picken

[…]inema. The trick having worked then probably had emboldened MacLauchlan to do the same dirty on the Odeon just after I started with Ted. 20th Century Fox had wanted to stage the World Premiere of THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE at Edinburgh’s Odeon but once again local politics interfered with accepte[…]
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