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[…] got more from him and then he kept testing Joanna Shimkus, who eventually married Sidney Poitier, and he wanted her in the part that Vanessa played. MGM said “No, not well enough known.” So I kept saying “Try Vanessa Redgrave.” Fell on deaf ears. Then he got Maureen … who’s that harpy with dark hai[…]

[…], youknow, because we were covering everybody’s films.Y es.Everybody’s. There was, I think Warner’s were about the one, the one company who...I think MGM made their own as well at one time.MGM also tried, but I, I found it used to come back to us, you know, an awful lot,because censorship and the di[…]

[…]t I say will be filtered out, I hope, of any... [Break in recording] Okay. Yes, Decline and Fall we made - I think it was the last film to be made at MGM. Wonderfully designed by a man now dead, called John Barry, whose first film it was as a full production designer. He was assistant to Elliot Scot[…]

[…] in Portsmouth and that we would do all the big Busby Berkley numbers up at the … on the stages at Elstree. Now, once we had started shooting, was it MGM? I suppose it was, I don’t know. I think it was MGM. Whoever it was had got another picture being made that did a sort of Heaven’s Gate and ran th[…]

[…]flatbedUnknown Speaker  38:19  film set and see if we can put it all together.Unknown Speaker  38:23  Because bigger studios like MGM, Princeton's dangerman, one series of danger, man, they haven't been seen doc there. For instance, if you wanted a continental train, he would go […]