Jonathan Balcon

[…]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[…]

Fred Tomlin

[…]nd doing some work. And we were there for a bit and then we went back to - er that was it, we went back to The Bush and then I was loaned out back to Gainsborough because they were onto a picture called um... I don't know, Evelyn Laye was in it anyway, it was a costume thing. And I was quite happy o[…]

Erwin Hillier

[…]tions only. They were responsible for making Goon British, being the most important student at that time, and gains with a course. You mustn't forget Gainsborough, because there was a small little place which we used to go to often small sets was quite a pleasant place. Yes, yes,Roy Fowler  41:[…]

Peter Tanner

[…]e went, I don't know if you've ever been to Lime Grove Studios, I think it was the only studio I've ever been to where, oh I think it was the same at Gainsborough, the stages were on top of each other. So when you went up in the lift the doors opened and you looked right into a set, it was fabulous,[…]

Jean Kent

[…]s an advertisement up and it said Kent Crosby brushes and I thought Kent, Jean Kent, yes that’s a short name, I’ll have that.I: You’ve leapt into the Gainsborough days; can we go back to more or less to the beginning? You’d been a dancer for some time?JK:  Oh yes I was at the Palladium for some[…]
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