Teddy Darvas

[…]n in the evening there were two or three coaches, sort of shuttle service. If you missed it then you had a twenty, twenty five minute walk. The chief make-up on it was a legendary woman called Dorrie Hamilton. Dorrie was quite potty, I mean, she was a real eccentric and she had a car. Dorrie was ear[…]

Mary Hillman

[…]nbsp;  The Beatles00:18:00            Discusses treatment of actors and different jobs of make-up artists. Marriage to Army Officer.00:20:00            Work at TVR00:20:40  &n[…]

Joy Cuff (née Seddon)

[…] side view, actually I think she’s still got that little turned-up nose in the end. And that was her big thing. Then she went onto, she worked in the make-up department and helped with the monkey masks as well. And then also she carried on and did Clockwork Orange with him, she did the tables. […]

Virginia McKenna

[…]if it’s wrong without knowing what’s right.VM: Exactly. It’s quite true, that. Sometimes in a costume film you see someone with obviously very modern make-up and you think, well, they didn’t have that kind of make-up in those days.JR: Yes. Someone always notices if it’s wrong. And integrity is the v[…]

Julia Cave

[…]y we find a blow-up of the Parthenon, we find a table, a chair and so we set up the whole thing and she 01:00 finally arrives, but she has to go into make-up for an hour.  And we’re all set up with the diffused lighting and all the rest of it, and of course, she smokes like a chimney, so every […]

Christine Collins

[…]ave been the cameraman, Robin Ridgeway, and we went to tea with Barbara Cartland. And she was very charming, very charming indeed and without all the make-up she looked much betterChristine Collins Page 16Tape 17[laughs] and the tea was served by the butler and all this sort of thing. He brough[…]

Dennis Main Wilson

[…]ning, that's a long way from Paris. We’ve done that so.I then did virtually nothing for two years, in that I set out to learn about television, about make-up, wardrobe, history of costume, body-language hadn’t come into it yet. I read up a lot on cameras. [Side 4, 13 mins]I went to a lot of stu[…]

ARMSTRONG, Moira BECTU copy

[…] about eighty-six I think it was. And, you know, his make-up, I remember unfortunately the final day in the studio […]

Judy Ritchie

[…]n? Did you watch the things that you'd worked on? What was your reaction to it, can you remember? R: Well, I remember Anne Hamilton. She was the Make-Up, Head of Make-Up Department and she was quite a feisty wee woman and we were, I was a hippie, art student and we didn't have a telly until STV[…]
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