Anne V Coates

[…]shot quite a lot of second unit actually, because David Foster put me on to doing it, because, you know, Richard really couldn’t do it. And, then the make-up we had problems with. Was it John Standing who played in it? I never saw it. BECTU History Project Interviewee Interviewer Track No […]

Peggy Hyde-Chambers (nee Rignold)

[…]timates based on readings from the original cassette recording.The copyright of this recording is vested in The BECTU History Project. Peggy Rignold, make-up artist, later to become Mrs Hyde-Chambers, wife of the film editor, and later to work for Lew Grade as an administrator. Recorded on the twent[…]

Daphne Shadwell

[…]d say, ‘Daphne, do so-and-so and so-and-so’, you know, ‘Give us a list of so-and-so’. Or she’d leave me to do all the wardrobe lists and all the make-up lists which I didn’t like doing at all, I hated all that, and when I became a director I used to leave that to my PA because I didn’[…]

Charles Picken

[…]a sneak at an odd couple who regularly visited. I had my own close encounter with one of the duo, a six-foot plus blonde with very heavy face and eye make-up whose choice of dress was colourful to say the least. This “might-have-been easily-mistaken-for-an Amazonian warrior” had approached me while […]

Aida Young (nee Cohen)

[…]for Hammer.  Again she was lovely, she was a lovely woman.  The only thing was that one morning - be careful with this - she didn’t come to make-up and the make-up chap phoned me and said: “Look, we’ve banged on the door, we’ve phoned her number, there is no-one, she should have been in ma[…]

Charles Wilder

[…]o German makeup men. And at this time we had the starlet school which was all the young girls like Jean Kent and Glennis Lorimer, and they also had a make-up apprentice school where they taught them the make-up business you know. And gradually it developed again with, as I say, five films going all […]

Robert Beatty

[…] I don't have to do much walking round because I'm too tall for him really. They had this hairpiece thing on and I spent a hell of a long time in the make-up room, about four hours in the make-up room, About two hours doing the bloody shots and that sort of stuff and the rest of the time getting rid[…]

Phyllis Dalton

[…]ber suffering with those stiff collars like mad, and they never do it now.But I’m interested to know how you work together with hairdressing and with make-up,for instance, because that’s all part of costume isn’t it?With tact and diplomacy.[laughter]Can be quite tricky, because that’s where the sort[…]
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