[…]ith Ted, and he could handle any kind of subject and knew what he was talking about. And it was a very sad day when he left Gainsborough. And went to MGM. I think he regretted it afterwards because at MGM he did nothing. They gave him nothing to do.RF: It was their way, they did the same thing with […]
[…]t of filmmakers, definitely outstanding. See this were, when you look back at the Ufa era, there was enormous talent there. I don't think even in the MGM highest days, it had quite that sort of talent, because they had, if the sound hadn't come into it would have been still going strong, definitely,[…]
[…]ng about it? It'll only sound like sour grapes. I'm learning, I'm doing what I want to." Well that was all over and then Victor was making films with MGM and I went on holiday where my first daughter - first child was conceived I'm bound tell you! [Chuckles] And this was in 1938 and um, er, I worked[…]
[…]sts microphone and breaks into frame.23.14 – 23.27] PM: I’m probably running out of context. DB: Yes. In the cv it says one or two jobs for MGM, about this time. Up at Elstree.PM: Yeah.DB: Or Borehamwood as we know it.PM: Yeah, again because of the making props and stuff like that I got a […]
[…]nto Sussex. But this was all happening at about the time that he left Gaumont British in 1937 and went and joined Metro Goldwyn as production head of MGM UK.Roy Fowler  32:26  Had he put himself on the market or did they come to him do you think?Jonathan Balcon  32:31  I rather h[…]
[…]ound out that it was terrible and he wouldn't co-operate at all, it was very strange, and why a lot of it went back to, I think it was transferred at MGM, at Boreham Wood. Why they hadn't said anything, but I think they were very cross about- LH: The film going to the States. WR: Not only […]
[…]t I didn't...before the war the only place...after I left Elstree I went to the Bush and then to Shepperton, but then I went to Denham and worked for MGM. So I had Sam Wood as a director there on Mr Chips, which was quite something.Roy Fowler: We're jumping aren't we. So, still at BIP but obvio[…]
[…]urse was quite tricky because I was part of a studio which didn't exist. And I wrote to a dead M and I wrote to Pinewood I wrote all these places and MGM and trying to get into one of those studios and wasn't having much luck. But was offered the documentary that Wessex we're doing in Dalrymple's, t[…]
[…]o back to the '30s momentarily? There was one period in your father's life, which must have been traumatic, I mean it's legendary his connection with MGM British .... Jill Balcon  31:09  "Yank at Oxford" I can remember all that. Roy Fowler  31:11  Yo[…]
