[…]merican directors.Anyone, for instance, apart from Jarrott, did you ever work with Ford, for instance?Yes, John Ford, I did Gideon’s Day at MGM. John Ford, Joe Mankiewicz,Zinnemann, King Vidor, Rouben Mamoulian, Tony Mann, Billy Wilder.Wow!Oh I mean just, just...Did you spend, I know you w[…]
[…]owler: Did you stay with Ealing to the end.Peter Tanner: No I didn't get my golden handshake because I could see the end was nigh, I was at MGM, I did two pictures at MGM and then I got an offer to do a picture with Robert Aldrich called the Angry Hills with Robert Mitchum for MG[…]
[…] After the war he worked as a sound man at MGM’s new studios in Borehamwood, where he stayed until the […]
[…]nbsp; Desperate to work in big studio, invited by Elliot Scott to help out on major MGM film with Ken Adams, “In the cool of the day”. Learned drawing skills from draughtsman Frank Wilson.12:06 - &n[…]
[…]I'm fascinated with King Kong.SPEAKER: M3And she said oh my father worked on that and I worked with Willis O'Brien. And she said call him up. He's at MGM preparing a film called the war he goes. So it took me two or three days before I got the courage to call him up at MGM and he kindly invited me d[…]
[…]a very happy place. There was a good atmosphere to it, because it was small, it wasn’t the size of your Pinewoods and your Sheppertons and your MGMs and your ABPCs and when one thinks of the amount of studios that were about in those days. So there were these four small stages, and every[…]
[…]you will be kept on when we find new places to go, and some of you won't." Well I was the one that wasn't because they went then, if you remember, to MGM?Linda Wood : Yes.Anthony Mendleson : And MGM had a very admirable costume designer called Elizabeth Haffenden who'd been there for years, so natur[…]
[…]ge, or I could take it in this country. Well, I stayed with the Army for about six months after the war and then I was offered rather a good job with MGM. They were starting up their newsreel called Metro News and they offered me quite a good position as Chief Cameraman. I felt that, as much as I wo[…]
[…]p; Oh Denholm then Pinewood.Q Denholm then Pinewood, what about British MGM studios at Boreham Wood?A Oh, now that came on ...Q […]
