Muriel Box (Gardiner) (née Baker)

[…]y us.Sidney Cole : But that's down as you directed that.Muriel Box : Yes I did.Sidney Cole : So who was in that?Muriel Box : Robert Newton and Glynis Johns.Sidney Cole : Glynis Johns was a charmer wasn't she, did you get on well with Glynis?Muriel Box : Yes.Sidney Cole : But Newton was already rathe[…]

Norman Fisher

[…]or Kays in Finsbury Park.Roy Fowler: Indeed yes. How did the job with the GPO Film Unit come about?Norman Fisher: Once again I had an introduction to John Grierson through Sir Gordon Craig, again, and I was taken on as assistant sound, incidentally, the studio manager then at Blackheath was Ralph Bo[…]

Ella Mallet

[…]t was the film?Ella Mallett : Oh...well you've got those in the Institute. I gave them two royal programmes, and I gave them to Mr Ralph Bromhead and John Scott.Roy Fowler : Well they'll be saved then, they'll be preserved in the archives.Ella Mallett : Only four pages.Roy Fowler : Right, I would th[…]

Julie Harris

[…]ul night to the Café De Paris when that was bombed. There were a lot of casualties – I think about 60 people were killed – including Ken ‘Snake Hips’ Johnson, who was the band leader, and quite a few of his band. It was the most horrendous experience, but these things rather fade in one’s memory.RL:[…]

John Box

NB This is a resume only.John Box (JB)Production DesignerBECTU No.463Interviewer: Rodney Gielsler (RG)Date 09/12/19993 Tapes Side 100:00:00 – 00:09:30 Introductions; born 1920 in England but moved to Ceylon; father couldn’t get a decent job after WWI so he worked in a number of remote areas of […]
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