[…]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[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]o that was why every American company formed a British company that was paramount, who worked at Pinewood was 20th Century Fox, who owned Wembley and MGM Of course, by now had the, we're building very shortly afterwards, the MGM Studios to Boston would also and the system was this, the Americans wou[…]
[…]m in the river at Denham, when we were still working at Worton Hall and I got to know the gardener, [laughing] who was later the studio controller at MGM. What the hell was his name? Nice man. Anyway this is all irrelevant, you see what I mean.Sidney Cole: No, it's not because its sort of stream-of-[…]
[…] The Citadel (1938) and Goodbye Mr Chips (1939), both for MGM-British, and Busman’s Honeymoon (1940). She spent much of the […]
[…]s Busman's Honeymoon .Roy Fowler: That came a bit later, didn't it?Joan Kemp-Welch: That came a bit later, did it?Roy Fowler: That was MGM also, with Robert Montgomery.Joan Kemp-Welch: I don't know why, I thought that came before The Citadel? That's a big one?Roy Fowler: No,[…]
