[…]with them out of the centre of Birmingham because if, if it had been hit of course twenty streets would have gone up if, because they were all there, MGM, and Warners and Fox and Paramount and Colombia, were all around John Bright Street in Birmingham.They’d moved out into a country house about five[…]
[…]ll good things, it had to come to an end. And the colonial office closed everything down, and I was left stranded, or more disbanded. And so I joined MGM, which I thought would step in the right direction, in that they had come out with a full Hollywood unit with Stuart Granger, Jimmy Granger, Debor[…]
[…]ected cameraman but he had not fot the muscle that Feddy had got Freddy. Could do what he liked at B & D almost as much as he did when he went to MGM many years later. He trained an awful lot of. People and. You know. He's been doing it ever since I.SPEAKER: M1 Can remember like in filmsQUE[…]
[…]t, but it didn't come to anything. We couldn't, obviously couldn't launch it. The next move I made was to Pinewood where, oh, no, it wasn't it was to MGM. At our st. The studio, there was a fantastic studios at the MGM Studios, very modern building and so forth. And I went over there work with IED y[…]
[…]bsp;(TIME 48.53) I feel we did Miss Moneypenny and David Niven at Pinewood, but we actually shot the segment and what he really wanted to be doing at MGM. Lovely MGM at the time, all running smoothly as, well, a four-waller as well as their own stuff.DARROL BLAKE: And what do you remember of that st[…]
[…]ll about the circumstance... How did you get the job at 2001? 0:34:26.2 JOY: Right, well somebody gave me John Hoesli 's name who was working at MGM at that time, 2001. So I wrote to him in the October. Heard nothing. You know, because you go for jobs and you don't hear anything, do you? And th[…]
[…]nd I thought, "Well that's a pretty good idea." Because I'd read only recently that the highest paid man in the world was Louis B. Mayer, the head of MGM, and I thought, "Well this film lark, probably has got something going for it." And it sounded a bit more interesting than estate agents. So I joi[…]
[…]ing completed and wired up for Western Electric sound. We were the only English studio, certainly at the beginning, maybe right the way through until MGM were built, that had Western Electric. Which of course we thought no doubt was the best sound system there was. And there we had finished 'Wolves'[…]
[…]p;In fact, they saved Universal too?Teddy Darvas: Saved Universal and it became a huge success and eventually Pasternak, of course, went over to MGM, because they had Catherine Grayson - huge money.Teddy Darvas: friend of my father's was a journalist who worked for the Hearst Press in New […]
