[…]onnection with the entertainment business?Muriel Box : No, except my father played the violin - orchestra.Sidney Cole : And that gave you a taste for music?Alan ? : In an orchestra?Muriel Box : A local, just a local.Sidney Cole : Yes, amateur, because what did he do as a profession?Muriel Box : He w[…]
[…]nd the partisan songs and the things like that. And one of those, I’ve never forgotten this, Handel’s Water... it was cut to Handel’s Water Music, it’s all I can remember of this whole thing, I’ll never forget [laughter]. But it was basically those sort of public relations films. One didn’[…]
[…]t, again, questions in the House, One of the items we produced, I produced on The Late Show that Barry Humphries had written, he used to write little musicals, and he wrote … they were absolutely brilliant … he wrote one about James Joyce in Paris which Arthur Mullard played Gertrude Stein I remembe[…]
[…] it. Never thought. Never lost a nice sleep. Well, I didn't last night because it needs to keep us up. I mean, never lost any sleep or anything. Some music stories about that, but that is a bit in that we organized dances in the common room of the museum and so on. At the end of April, I decided tha[…]
[…]think had written the play.I was told by john Mitchell who was to mix it that this was going to involve a lot of playback, probably something like 11 musical numbers, and he wanted it all to go very smoothly. So this is when I allowed my initiative to run really riot, I discovered that the whole thi[…]
[…]on in it, there was one called 'Blind Man's Bluff', which also had James Mason in it. Oh, Virginia Cherrill came over for one of them, and they did a musical which...Sidney Cole: What was the musical called, can you remember? [NB 'Rhythm In The Air']Kay Mander: No, but Carmen Dillon would, because s[…]
[…]Out of school, at the convent in Cavendish square.Unknown Speaker 24:46 What are you most like studying there?Speaker 2 24:50 Music, music. I wasn't a very good scholar. I'm afraid at least I'd miss it. YouSpeaker 1 24:57 said earlier that your mother. Wasn't part[…]
[…]eally can’t remember in detail.But they obviously impressed you.Y es.Okay. Was there any showbiz connection in your family at all?Yes. My aunt was in musical comedy really it was, I suppose. She used to play leading lady in number one tour, about I suppose, oh, latest would have been the twenties. A[…]
