June Randall

[…]nd down the canals â€“ wedon’t have them now, they’ve stopped all that, although I believe there’s trips up anddown the canals â€“ and the hairdresser crossing the canal dropped Harry Corbett’shairpiece. Now he was very, very touchy about his hairpiece, right, and everyone was fishing it,[…]

Renee Glynne

[…]n’t. No.DARROL BLAKE: Quite apart from Vanessa being up here and his down there. [Laughter]RENÉE GLYNNE: It was the most stupid casting ever. And the hairdresser and I and Dustin used to have supper together in the restaurant, or hotel restaurant, next to where we were staying, and he was such a mod[…]

Jean Kent

[…]K:I think they must have been because they were always there. Though they were only called in when everyone was there. Biddy, I think she had another hairdresser, Edna, Ella, something like that.I:And did you have, by the time you got to Fanny by Gaslight, which the records say were partly made at L[…]

Elizabeth Furse (née Wolpert)

[…]it's working, it's working.You see in those days men made films, women, Betty Box appeared very late on the tapi [ph 38:55] you see. Women were, were hairdressers and, you know, and, and what, and continuity girls, you know.That's right, yes. Yes.And I was the only girl with men. So I was happy, and[…]

Daphne Shadwell

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Fred Tomlin

[…] what did you do first when you left school?Fred Tomlin: The first job I had was at a wholesale warehouse, a great big place it was, selling stuff to hairdressers and things like that, all the stuff that they have to use, including cigarettes, and I was in the cigarette department.Bob Allen: I see.F[…]
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