[…]a city office as an office boy. I won't tell you how many stamps I stole. During that time I used to take the Boy Scout, a little magazine, you may remember - and in it I saw an advertisement one day with a handsome young man in naval uniform with a ball of the earth, with his foot on the ball, the […]
[…] 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[…]
[…]ll in the family kind of thing, you know? And the film that was in production when I arrived there was Jack Buchanan and Betty Balfour, and I can't remember the name of the film but they were the two stars of the day. And from 1924 until 1927 we did a film at Stag Lane aerodrome with Sir Alan Cobham[…]
[…]am standing up, the other guy collapsed practically with shock, he was less than five foot particularly with this stooping thing.Roy Fowler: Do you remember who it was.Robert Beatty: No, I was just told it was an American actor, it was probably over finances.Roy Fowler: Black Limelight then was your[…]
[…]ity. My mother jumped at that and I was pushed off into this job which I absolutely loathed. I sat there in the office not knowing what to do and I remember my first day, and I was sitting in this office and they said if the phone rings answer it. So after a few minutes the phone rang and a voice sa[…]
[…] power and you couldn't go to anybody, I wasn't a member. Three weeks went by and I never got paid […]
[…]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[…]
