[…] the famous producers of many, many brilliant British films.[56] But we also did The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957),[57] an American production at MGM. Jennifer Jones[58] played Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Bill played Robert Browning. John Gielgud played father Barrett—JR: You say ‘Bill’; this[…]
[…] me, because it must have been a year or so after that this guy had written the script for Whirlpool. Larry Buckman became the head of production for MGM in Europe, which meant that I started doing all these films for him. You know, I was doing about four or five films a year for him, which was grea[…]
[…]lease it unless I went out there personally. And they wanted a bribe, you know, a baksheesh. That was the only way you could get it out. There was an MGM cameraman, Lennox, in Karachi, but he couldn't get it out, I had to go there personally. So, I was preparing to go to Ceylon as it was then, it wa[…]
[…]uld later use whenever possible.00:37:50 – 00:46:25 Child in the House with Cy Endfield; Gideon’s Day [AKA Gideon of Scotland Yard] with John Ford at MGM, KA tried to make Gideon’s office as interesting as possible with a model of London Bridge outside the window; KA talks about a problem with model[…]
[…]and into the studios, into... Now I can’t, it was ABPC now, I cannot remember, I think... Because that studio’s changed hands somany times, it became MGM, it became Canon and I’m not sure whether this guyactually bought the studios at that time. Anyway he bought up Eothen and we moved out of the, as[…]
[…]y it’s all getting a bit faint then, now. And then, ohthen we got married and, and Derek was at Denham I think or Pinewood.But on demob?Or Elstree or MGM. Mm?On demob, he was on demob?Was he, was he?Well, he must have been demobbed if he was...Oh he was demobbed.Yes.I thought it was a film company. […]
Rodney Giesler 0:09 This is an interview with Christopher miles, recorded for the BECTU oral history project by Rodney Giesler in Wiltshire on March the 31st 1995. Reel one,I mightask you when you were born, Christopher Miles 0:28 right, I was born 19, April 39, in Londo[…]
[…]the end the end came very quickly but of course it wasn't finally the end because everybody was maintained. Everybod y that was kept on moved over to MGM where Ealing continued to work for a number of years. I went over to Ealing at some point and did another Alec Guinness film with with with Jack H[…]
[…]she could have been anybody. But anyway. Then. The. Final thing in the saga.SPEAKER: M28And then went off to do a film a game with both Clark and for MGM which we started the preparation in Los Angeles and then went to Cleveland and did the thing back to North Carolina to do the set. Oh you keep goi[…]
