[…] boy climbs up ladder, goes through window, finds his girl with heavy. Now finish the story!" So I ad-libbed something or other, [chuckles] I don't remember what the hell! But anyway he said, "All right, take you on as a junior writer, fifty dollars a week." And that's how I started in Hollywood.Sid[…]
[…];           1: Oh yes. So tell us who was there, because they’re a very distinguished lot. I remember Elton was in charge wasn’t he, Arthur Elton?                &nb[…]
[…]n. I had just met him. And you engage you. Yes, he needed a singer in a night club, and I dressed up like a tart and sang. And yes, of course, I do remember that. And so I sang in one of the scenes. Actually, I didn't sing. I mimed, but we had lots of fun through the year showing people the film and[…]
[…]ly though you led a fairly protected, sheltered life as an adolescent until this happened?LK: Yes very. Very, but one grows up very quickly. I even remember cutting up a dead horse because we were starving in Warsaw and there were horses lying all over the place and so onRF: That was in late 1939, e[…]
[…]ries, in Grosvenor Place, where I worked very hard and went out in the big world. And my first real job was with a Harley Street Consultant.Can you remember what you were paid?Oh yes, it was a big sum, two pounds, ten shillings a week, it, that was because I was highly qualified.Which, what year was[…]
[…]my nursing home was because my father was in the Army as a chaplain and after he left the Army he moved to Canterbury I believe – obviously I don’t remember that – the first thing I remember was when he was made the vicar of a little country parish in Kent near Edenbridge and we lived there until he[…]
[…]ork on his scripts and I was loaned out and never let go.BA: That was somewhere round 1933 .BE : Yes it was, it might have been a bit more, I can’t remember about years, you get a funny idea when you think back on years, you think you were there an awful long time and it really isn’t a long time, ju[…]
[…]time, I shall be 74 the place this auspicious event occurred was in a small terrace suburban house in Willesden. At the bottom of our garden, I can remember a quiet park now gone, and marvelous sunsets. I had a very happy childhood, blighted by the fact my mother was a mild, hard pichonry act. My fa[…]
[…]evision,they all want to be in television. I was absolutely film mad. Iwas taken to films quite a lot when I was young, even silent films, Iseem to remember seeing silent films and later on I took myself off tosound films and it completely took hold of me and in my head deciding, atthe age of 15 dec[…]
