[…]urned! Both items were returned in the same condition as they had been left in my care and I could now add “cigar holder for one of the most powerful Hollywood Studio Moguls” to my list of credits! As for the Fox Executives they too had been as delighted as their Boss and expressed their appreciatio[…]
[…]llowed to go to the Metro cinema, which is a very glamorous thing to do. And of course, children's films, but every now and again, I get a glimpse of Hollywood as it was then. Esther Williams diving into pools, trailers for things like The Postman Always Rings Twice, Lana Turner in white, and I all […]
[…]television series of Sherlock Holmes. His father, Leslie Howard (1893-1943), was a prominent English stage actor known for his roles as Englishmen in Hollywood films of the 30s and 40s such as The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934), Pygmalion (1938) and Gone with the Wind (1939).[12] Frederick Rowland Emett ([…]
[…]even if you needed a fortnight's work in those days for 2000 pounds that was a great deal of money. Roy Fowler 11:17 Well that was a Hollywood rate I would have thought ... Jonathan Balcon 11:20 I would have thought Roy Fowler 11:20 It would have be[…]
[…]d it was all lifted Jack Benny, Bob Hope material. And I found that out because I did a series with Bob Hope to the BBC Radio. And Bob cabled me from Hollywood to say could I get Bob Monkhouse to write the English side of his material. Why him? Because he knows my material, my style very well.NS: [c[…]
[…]particular film, on very limited budgets, you can't always do what to produce this one time limited budget, if they say, Well, I want to sound like a Hollywood musical. And I've only got 50 plans, you have to say, Well, I'm sorry, you know, it's that's going to involve what you want to involve 20 sc[…]
[…]me he’d –PM: Done his own thing.DB: Yeah. PM: Which were five separate stories. One was cartoon, dancing with the mouse and all that.DB: Done in Hollywood of course.PM: Yeah, I don’t think they did very well. They kind of died.DB: That’s true, that’s true. Not very well received.PM: No.DB: So, […]
[…]s as you like, you can't edit. Keep rehearsing until you get it right." He said, "But we can't do that. A lot of our film studios have closed down in Hollywood, and all our directors are now ex film directors and they want to go five, six, seven, eight takes. And it takes three or four weeks to edit[…]
