[…]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 […]
[…]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[…]
[…] studio, invited by Elliot Scott to help out on major MGM film with Ken Adams, "In the cool of the […]
[…] cinema so eventually they just took over. RW B: Certainly MGM did their best. It was unbelievably lavish and wonderfully […]
[…] I could see the end was nigh, I was at MGM, I did two pictures at MGM and then I […]
[…] After the war he worked as a sound man at MGM’s new studios in Borehamwood, where he stayed until the […]
