The copyright of this interview lies with the \british Entertainment History ProjectInterview with Rosamund JohnInterviewer: Rodney Giesler RG: Could you tell me your background Rosamund, how you started acting and what was the situation?RJ: Well I don’t know why, I always wanted to be an actre[…]
[…] through his business of having to write about share issues and so on, you see, he contacted Baird to get some information. And because Baird was the managing director of this new company, which was raising quite a lot of money. Alan Lawson 20:14 They were, sorry. Th[…]
[…]think it arose really... a man called Ridgeway, was it?Ralph Bond : Phillip Ridgeway?Maurice Elvey : No, oh dear, what was his name? A director, film director. Oh God, I'll forget my own name next. Anyway, there were two or three of us who got very annoyed because the people who owned the films and […]
[…]nger you see, "He should trust me! I won't do this, will never tolerate him again," and so on. So there wasn't anything to do - I had to find another director. So I did, and I got Bob Asher. I was very sorry about the business about Paddy but there was no other way. So I got Bob Asher and we made a […]
[…] wasn't anything to do - I had to find another director. So I did, and I got Bob Asher. I was […]
The ‘Girls Like Us: British Women and WWII Cinema’ season continues at the National Film Theatre in May with more […]
[…]of mid 60s. Is that right? Well, it had been up and running. When I went there. My BFI was invited to come along and meet Brom Henderson, who was the managing director, invited by the then news editor, my Uncle Fred Corbett, who's deputy was Bill McLaughlin, literally become the RU C's communication[…]
[…]ges. So how did that work, in terms of them understanding what was going on on set.Speaker 2 22:06 It just put a lot more pressure on the director. I mean, when, where, what we, what we do was to just in the script, put introduction to this cameras as directed, or interview cameras, as D[…]
[…]didn’t know he is English but he was regarded as a Los Angeles writer. So it was, working on that, I worked with Mary Harron who went on to be a film director. And Mary loved archive, you could tell that she was going on to greater things and, er, we got on famously well. Erm, and Mary and then afte[…]
