John Cotter

[…]it was in the hotel, the Imperial in Blackpool. We would take theWallbrick Suite and it was my job to organise this and we had them all there. We had GeorgeBrown drunk, you got to know them pretty well. We really were on christian name terms withthem. Ted Heath I knew him very, very well indeed. I t[…]

Vivienne Collins

[…]er, and I don’tremember how we heard it, whether it was through the, through the paper-seller shouting or that somebody had a radio but we heard that George VI had died.Oh right, yes, 1952, mm.Yes, yes, while I was in the cutting rooms there. And the other significant thing that happened to us was H[…]

Julia Cave

[…]ry Lupino in Light Entertainment, which was big musical things, with Eric 23:00 Robinson’s Orchestra and the Tiller Girls.  And we did… the last George Formby show ever.  We did two huge ones, I can’t remember what they were, but they were live you see, and of course in those days you see,[…]

Ron Moody

[…] did you start to use it. Ron Moody  25:42  I did one concert. I was talked into doing one concert with the ukulele. I did a George Formby impression, impression at the local church hall I walked on, stood there, plank, plank, plank, plank, I don't suppose they heard a word.[…]

Frederick Bentham

[…]  19:23  Anyway,Frederick Bentham  19:25  but that all came to nothing because he abdicated he had the crown put on his head. And George the six was determined not to be televised on education filmed Yes, but not televised. Because of show they could crop cut. Hold the film. As a[…]

James Arthur Clark

[…]a Popeye's short or a Mickey Mouse short or the seekers of life nature. Then we'd have the feature is used it as far as I remember was a whale Hey or George Formby or obviously the delight of the headmaster was Jesse Matthews because we had all of her films up to date titles they were going back for[…]

John Schlesinger

[…]Avenue in Hampstead in 1926, February 16. And I was so long in arriving that my father went off, I think it was my father, went off to the cinema thinking I wasn't going to arrive that night, and I crept in I think. I was born just beforemidnight on February 16th And we, my father was apaediatrician[…]
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