A F (Peter) Birch

[…]ent; I mean, I gave him no trouble. I gave nobody trouble if I could help it .Alan Lawson : Now you're back again with Mickey Powell, but shooting at Gainsborough on "Phantom Light". What was Gainsborough like to work at in those days? There was an upstairs and a downstairs, wasn't there, or have I […]

Albert Critoph

[…]here was at white city or Ealing when I first went to the BBC, I started at Lime grove. Lime Grove was the old film studdios  belonging  to Gainsborough  pictures, and I started my job there, and as as the BBC policy is to move staff around. So after that, I went to the old film studi[…]

Phyllis Dalton

[…]ent to see her when I was demobbed. And she didn’t need an assistant then but Yvonne Caffin didand so I was taken on by Yvonne and started at the old Gainsborough Studios at Islington. The Huggett films.This was Yvonne too was it?Yvonne Caffin.Caffin.She did an awful lot, yes.Because Holiday Ca[…]

Wendy Toye

[…]l the extraneous bits, I think I was in that and then I watch it through and find out I wasn't. They cut it out.LW: Which studios did you work at?WT: Gainsborough. I've got a marvelous story about Gainsborough. Not that many years ago I was in New York and Dicky Attenborough was directing Chorus Lin[…]

Muriel Box (Gardiner) (née Baker)

[…]Muriel Box : That was Betty.Sidney Cole : Oh he's got you mixed up.Muriel Box : I had nothing to do with that, that was Betty's film. When we went to Gainsborough, they wanted someone to do the work at Gainsborough you see, so she was sent to see after that with Peter Rogers. He'd done some religiou[…]

Charles Wilder

[…]e Ostrer and Ted Black, he was another one. I can't remember the exact dates that they came into being but um - going on a bit, when the war started, Gainsborough Pictures came over from Islington into Shepherd's Bush and that's really when Maurice Ostrer became in charge of production.John Taylor: […]
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