[…]s?Cyril Page: Oh, yes, yes. Every time I did a shipment: "Shipment so and so, excellent. Continue good work." Errm...Paul er...Paul er...Alan Lawson: Fox?Cyril Page: Paul Fox. He used to do all the scripts and that so, of course, Paul used to say "Great," you know, er "Be a little bit more explicit […]
[…]ennett : Oh! He was very fat, you see. As you remember, he was up to about 280lbs., or something like that. And he was under contract to 20th Century Fox, and they said... they loved him. And he decided that he should become a leading man, a young leading man. He was only 24 or 25: he would have bee[…]
[…]ti-Semitism. I have no idea whether there was any truth in that or not, but it is not difficult for people to say that there is that in the BBC. Paul Fox believes there was a great deal of that in the BBC at one time, and I believe left because he believed fundamentally that a Jew would never get in[…]
[…] a company called Twentieth Century, before it became Twentieth Century Fox? They made about eight films. And one of them […]
[…] a call, would I like to go and work for Fox Films at Wembley for Reggie Beck, Reggie Beck wanted […]
[…] one or two pictures. I think Walsh was in Twentieth Century - do you remember a company called Twentieth Century, before it became Twentieth Century Fox? They made about eight films. And one of them was called On the Bowery [N.B. The Bowery]. And I think Bert was in that, playing a piano in a broth[…]
[…] was. I've done a lot at Hampstead. I: Oh !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!36!James!Joyce!(1882G1941)!was!an!Irish!poet!and!novelist!who!wrote!Ulysses!(1922)!and!Finnegan’s$Wake!(1939).!!37!Simon!Gray!!(1936G2008)!was!an!English!playwright!whose!plays!included!The$Common$Pursuit!(1984)!and!Cell$Mates!(1995)!38!Lilian!Hellman!(1905G1984)!was!an!American!dramatist!and!screenwriter,!her!work!included!!The$Little$ Foxes,!!first!as!a!play!in!1939!and!then!as!an!Academy!Award!nominated!screenplay!in!1941.! ED: Quite a lot at Hampstead. I did The […]
[…]that time he was very keen to try directing. And it was shortly after that that Universal Pictures decided that they needed a house comic just as the fox had got Mel Brooks as their house comic.SPEAKER: M1So they elected to try out Marty.SPEAKER: M14Marty had written the script himself with another […]
