[…] thing about this in a humorous way for Arthur Askey to do. I found out that eight other writers had been asked before me so I put on a great Academy Award act that I was furious, insulted that they'd come to me no 8 on the list, and said I will only do this if you accept it that I direct it. They a[…]
[…]oon that you're working late that night, and that was it. Your food was laid on and the food was laid? Yes, yes, they organised some food, but it was award terribly crude. And if it was a good production, the food was alright if it was a bad production, like, for example, Mother Riley, it was sandwi[…]
[…]dibly submitted the film for an Oscar and we didn’t know anything about it, they didn't tell us, and we suddenly heard one day you've won the Academy Award. So we said oh, that's very nice. And the chief result of winning the Academy Award for was that the film was taken on by a British distributor […]
[…] and we suddenly heard one day you've won the Academy Award. So we said oh, that's very nice. And the […]
[…]at's all I can say. It was 194...Sidney Cole: 1945?Kay Mander: No, no, no. It was after the War.Sidney Cole: Oh, 1946?Kay Mander: Well, I won the BFI award in 1949, so it must have been 1948. And the first one - they liked the first one, so Jacques Brunius was commontateur[?]. And this is another pi[…]
[…] Kine Yearbook, noted ‘a certain interesting development—in the embryo stage at the time of writing’ regarding the employment of women […]
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Peter Suschitzky (PS)CinematographerInterviewer: Paul Frith (PF)Date 08/06/2018[01:59:37]PF: OK, thank you Peter for taking part in the interviews today. This is the voice of Paul Frith on the 8th June 2018. So, if we can start by talking a little bit about where your interest in fil[…]
[…]ng to Hollywood. So I decided the suggestion of a friend of mine, that I do a training course of becoming a wireless operator. Because the minute the awards started coming about wireless operator, merchant, Merchant Navy, you know, and I was halfway through that course and jack Lee ran out. Get Lee […]
