[…]expensive picture for its time was it.Gordon Hales  12:12  probably yes, probably. It had very good it was very carefully cast. People like George Roby playing Sir John Falstaff dying, for example. Mistress Quickly ` as marvellous as a marvellous people in it.Interviewer  12:35  […]
[…] the best anti war film since Cavalcade'. That was saying rather a lot I think. That was certainly Stewart Rome, but Men of Yesterday had people like George Robey, music hall artists as well, in it. Because he was very fond of music hall so he always liked to have a music hall sequence in because he[…]
[…]e would give sound the priority. And some directors would only be interested in the actor – they wouldn’t be looking through the camera at all. George Cukor never looked through the camera. And Gabby never looked through the camera. Several directors I have worked with never looked through the[…]
[…] Simeon Rowson.Bill Girdlestone: He wasn't very good. It'll come in a minute ... He was a character, he came and shot Claude Duval for George Cooper.Fowler/Lawson: It wasn't Joe Rosenthal, was it?Bill Girdlestone: No, old Joe was a good old character, yes. He shot Robin[…]
[…]96 when FIAF was doing it’s thing to celebrate the Centenary of Cinema, variously celebrated depending whether you were a Lumiere Brothers or a Kodak/George Eastman type: who am I trying to say? Sorry. [Roger has forgotten] MW: Or even a Marey or a Muybridge person! RS: Yes, all of that, b[…]
