[…]of an American director called T. Hayes Hunter. He turned out to be a very nice man but he was very severe on me to begin with. Eventually Balcon and Gainsborough Pictures, let me think, he thought I had some sort of promise but he didn't know what so he put me through various departments, the editi[…]
[…]ed to give me a job.Jim Connock : Tell me, I'm not quite clear in my own mind, you were already at Shepherd's Bush when I went there and I worked for Gainsborough Pictures, which were the sort of 'feature' arm. There was, also on the same floor there was GB News, and then there was G-B I.Kitty Wood […]
[…] then. I think he came in later.
Came in later.
Yes.
Right. So who would it have been, who...
Because then, a whole lot of people... When Gainsborough closed, was it Gainsborough or Shepherd’s Bush or whatever it was closed, a whole lot of people from there came over and took the jobs aw[…]
[…]l. It was a very pleasant - I've never known anywhere as pleasant to work as was Gaumont-British.Arnold Schwartzman : That wasn't the... What was the Gainsborough studios?Charles Bennett : Gainsborough was part of Gaumont-British. It was owned by... When I made The Clairvoyant with Claude Rains I wa[…]
[…]pt writer called Bettison, I always remember him, very gentle and he was was known as Betty poor chap, and there was Chan Balcon, who wasrepresenting Gainsborough, the film was Balaclava and was being made for Gainsborough, and also Samuels, P.C. Samuels, also from Gainsborough, and they were the bu[…]
[…] through the 1920s and 1930s, affiliating with others – notably Gainsborough – and running film studios at Lime Grove and […]
[…]nd various other people including ... Oh, goodness, it'll come to me in a minute. He was the father of quite a well known actress of the day, founded Gainsborough pictures.Roy Fowler  13:54  I'm not at all sure, can't help.Jonathan Balcon  13:57  Yeah. I'll have to look him up. C[…]
