[…]hes, and they took him over there for two months, a long time. And the day they went out to Cairo, an American company came into Shepherd's Bush (ed. John Stuart Blackton) he was reckoned to be one of the top next to Griffith. Anyway, they were going to shoot a picture called The Gypsy Cavalier[…]
[…]neymoon. And they brought in Hattie jokes to be the sketches called Death of a duchess. And they brought her in to be to be the the Duchess. CO stars John via and Clive done as well. It's a fantastic sketch to end the series. And we believe that Ray and Alan seeing Hattie Jake's and how well she wor[…]
[…]ins GG: Oh absolutely. Bristol was big. That’s where everybody wanted to go. You either went to Bristol or Liverpool I think, or Nottingham. And Johnny Neville had taken over Nottingham. DB: Yes. GG: And so Ian went to Nottingham, and I went to Bristol, yes, because it was three-weekl[…]
[…]aid, "I'm going to show you, now here are the stars," and they had just come in and I never saw anything that pretty and I was delighted. And I had - John Arnold was the 'First' [assistant director] and I had a very happy time on it. We had - I can't remember the name of - a very old and very knowle[…]
[…]].[OI] No, no, no, you knew him?No, he was Common Cause wasn’t he?Yes.[OI] New, new, mm, no, newsreel. Anyway it doesn’t really matter but, mm...John George what was he?[OI] No, no, this was when they, they tried to pack a General Council, mm, an Annual General Meeting. Yes. [Laughter]DAPHNE AN[…]
[…]l mix ups that happen in in those days. And I remember getting down into the makeup department one morning and looking for Meg's Jenkins and Rosamond John was in the chair, and I said where's a Meg she's gone. She's home in bed as in my dear she's supposed to be here was the first time she'd been su[…]
[…]oved that.Roy Fowler: He's just finished another piscture, A Fish Called Wanda.Robert Beatty: Do you know anything about it?Roy Fowler: No, just that John Cleese had to have a co-director credit until they finished it because the insurance company was convinced that that Charlie Crichton would drop […]
