[…]ver anyway." [laughs] So I sat in the foyer and about ten minutes later an awful crowd of boys who got to see him came in. They were the sweepings of London! I thought, "I can't possibly..." I'm not a snob, but I mean, if you work people like this, it's hopeless! Anyway, the thing I noticed about th[…]
[…]e, I used to go to that. And I remember Stanley Baxter used to say to me years and years later when our paths crossed and I asked him to come down to London when I first went into television and he said "Quite honestly, we can't afford to come to London to the West End. We make so much money up ther[…]
[…]f production at Lime Grove or Shepherd's Bush Studios. And I managed to get from him an introduction from Chan Balcon, he agreed to see me. I went to London. I went to Lime Grove, a wonderful studio, a sort of Hollywood to me then, little page boys with page boy hats, commissionaire at the entrance,[…]
[…]tratford with Birmingham. But it was very pleasant in those days and I lived there for I suppose it was about 15 years or so and then we moved nearer London to Great Missenden, and it was from Great Missenden that I started in films. I should say that when I left school in 1929 I went into the adver[…]
[…]. I mean that was probably worth about fifty thousand.Teddy Darvas: The interesting thing about Dorothy Holloway was, of course, that she became London Film's Casting Director and she was Casting Director till about the year after Alex died and she basically she did the crowd casting and she wa[…]
[…]e. They said what can you do. I said I'm been offered a job immediately working on a film for the army. They said take it. So I arrived in, I went to London and I got there on Saturday and Geoffrey said can you come out, we're doing research, we're doing an investigation for a film on Sunday. So I j[…]
[…]bsp;We'll get on to that in the near future. Okay, tell me when and where were you born?Speaker 1  1:21  I was born. In fact, I was born in London in 1957 at Hyde Park corner. There used to be a hospital there, which is now a poshMike Dick  1:33  hotel. Could you give me just for[…]
[…] 1, Side 1Interviewer Toby Haggith : Jill Craigie, will you tell me when and where you were born, please?Jill Craigie: Oh, I think I was born in London, but I'm a product who is rootless.Interviewer (unidentified): When were you born?Jill Craigie: Born in 1914Interviewer (unidentified): So can […]
[…] for me and all sorts of things like that. Jolly good thing she did because, we went away for a honeymoon, paid for by an Italian restaurant owner in London. Leoni’s. I was his third customer when he started. I started putting up these pictures and I started this thing called the "Glub" Group, put p[…]
[…] Alfred Duff[?] and it's due out daily. [NB Joseph McBride, "Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success", Simon & Schuster New York 1992 & Faber London 1992.]Roy Fowler: Is it? Oh I hadn't heard of that. McBride is a very well known writer, he's written about Orson Welles and quite a few import[…]
