[…] was, when we come along again after the ACT had been formed, and endeavoured to get members, we find it a bit difficult. They can't get out of their heads the fact that they'd tried once and was bitten. But eventually of course, it was unfortunate for me I suppose, a spot of bother occurred with, b[…]
[…]wer, possibly Alan Lawson: Did nationality come into it at all, do you think? Or national pride?Joy Batchelor: Well, it had a way of rearing its ugly head. But not too badly. I tell you who were very naughty, the Poles were dreadful.Unknown interviewer, possibly Alan Lawson: In what way was that, th[…]
[…]y said, "Yes, we know, we think you can do it." All I was doing - I hadn't got the experience of any of these sort of things but I was able to use my head. I was able to use my brain and I could organise. Anyway, I was made - and they put me in charge of a test-piece machine shop. This was where pie[…]
[…]d he got louder and louder and in the end she took him out, she said come on Freddy we've got to get out of here, and she dragged him from behind the head table and took him home. But it was a bit embarrassing for Adolf Menjou but I don't think Freddy would have done it if he hadn't been drunk[…]
[…]y mother had been a civil service in the post office, but she had a cousin who had a connection and that's how I got in. She was the secretary to the Head of Paramount all over Europe. You know that big building in Wardour Street well she worked there. It was a kind of PA job but they just called it[…]
[…]with them to take my luggage - suitcase - to - Idon’t know how I even achieved a suitcase, I don’t remember buying one - leave them at the party headquarters and I would pick it up when I came down. So I went on a twenty-six shillingday trip because you couldn’t take a case with you except a sm[…]
[…] optical to magnetic, most of us resisted it?Reggie Beck: No, I didn't. My first attempt at magnetic was in Paris.Wyn Ryder: They were way ahead of us weren't they.Reggie Beck: I didn't find it a problem.Wyn Ryder: Did you find there was much post synching in those days?Reggie Be[…]
[…] in 1917 and left ten years later, by which time he earned £5 a week; a director invited FY to shoot his next film; FY gave his notice to Colonel Bromhead the head of the studio at Gaumont.00:10:00 – 00:17:05 His first film was Victory shot on Salisbury Plain, directed by Wetherell; FY then worked o[…]
[…] made the show which ran from 1963 to 1967, including head of Rediffusion TV Elkan Allan, producer Vicky Wickham, director […]
[…] of things - I don't think really got in your head really solidly, you know, you didn't mind too much. […]
