[…]ingsingle, I mean if I had a family I mean I would say to anyone, go to Newcastle and you’ll have a lovely life, because there’s the Tyneside and the Odeon, so you’ve got plenty of cinema, there’s the Theatre Royal and the Gulbenkian, plenty of theatre.SF: You’re halfway to Edinburgh.You’re halfway […]
[…]s non-commercial and no good. And the way he could insist on Del being no good was that, in those days, the Rank Organisation owned two circuits, the Odeon and Gaumont. And if Del made a film, John Davis would put it in the worst cinema at the worst time of the year to do it down. He would put it in[…]
[…]t a U certificate film with a nice difficult film which meant that you had to go in with accompanied by an adult. And we used to queue up outside the Odeon interactive and we'd be about seven eight nine ten of us and we're used to accost adults who are going in and ask them if they take us in or tak[…]
[…] preview here we had a very bad preview here which is interesting. The very first public screening of The Killing Fields was held at Wimbledon at the Odeon which is one of the few theaters then that was equipped with a double head system. We lost a lot of the audience many many many people walked pa[…]
[…] this man, he gave him some money to make this movie. He gave... I knew Oscar Deutsch because Stanley Bates, who's wife put up the original money for Odeon, he was at Marlborough with me, and I had a very good looking wife, and we used to go to openings of Oscar Deutsch's theatres and stand on the s[…]
[…]f photography at Blackpool; SS was posted to Leeming.00:10:00 – 00:10:50 SS was to photograph the RAF in colour with Oscar Deutsch (then chief of the Odeon circuit) and cameras were sent from Technicolor using the Technicolor monopack (the forerunner to Eastmancolor) which could only be processed at[…]
[…]remember most of the programme. At the same time I know I also went with Miss Potts to another theatre which does not exist anymore. It was where the Odeon is now.NS: Alhambra, Leicester Square?MD: That’s right-at the Alhambra. In the early thirties I saw Rene Blum’s Ballet Russes, but I[…]
[…]. One or two highlights. I did a command performance once, requested from Pinewood and I was selected to do the design. It was stage show held at The Odeon at Marble Arch and produced by Jack Hulbert and Herbert Wilcox. I designed the stage setting which consisted of a fantastic fairyland staircase,[…]
