[…]was going to eventually be a photographer, I worked in the dark rooms, and I learned a lot about photography. It intrigued me, and I liked it. And working for a newspaper, you were independent, you could have a ball, and they were good crowd of peopleRoy Fowler 2:48 that was a local news[…]
[…] MGM British, and for more cut-price producers such as George King. During the war he joined the RAF Film Unit, […]
[…]e war. He was also a Knight First Class of the Order of St. Olaf, Norway, which he and Charlie Frend acquired I think because of the "Return of the Vikings", I'm not sure about that. He was also a Chevallier Des Arts et Des Lettres, France and curiously enough, my sister was in Paris the day he died[…]
[…]d and she was very busy writing a book about her life. But she ran this dramatic society to which I belonged and I remember, we did a play called The Kingdom of God in which I played a prostitute - it was by Anne Hall] and afterwards, done at The Westminster Theatre - which was a marvellous play and[…]
[…] of government co-operation. Through Sir Robert Vansittart. And of course King George VI he was very keen on what went […]
[…] a manicurist, and when I got in to see - King Vidor it was, wasn't it? Roy Fowler: Ah hmm. […]
[…]bsp; It was presented by?PETE MURRAY: The Queen Mother, yes. She came to see the play and she was very nice. (Time 11:58) I was shaking like a leaf. I don’t know why, but I was. MIKE DICK: Tell me a bit about how you first got into films then. PETE MURRAY:&n[…]
[…]granny and grandfather in the bed at night, which OK when you’re one, two, three, four or five, but if it had to happen now, I think I’d go into a working mans’ home or something. [This may be a reference to a hostel or workhouse. DS]. In retrospect, not very pleasant.McG: What did your grandmother […]
[…]sp;You bet you! [Laughs.]Roy Fowler: I mean that was one of the problems at that time was it not - that one had to be middle class just to be working.E.M. Smedley-Aston: Oh sure, yes. But the thing was of course that 25 shillings in those days [laughs] was not impossible. Because I would s[…]
[…]architecture and in 1928 I became an associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Uh, during the time I was a student, I happened to be walking to the Tube one day with a friend of my father's, another doctor, and he asked me what I thought I would do when I'd qualified, and I said I didn[…]
