[…]do a really good bit better. It's been a long, long time. And then after that, Richard Goodwin down at his studios rather high, which we used for our officers. Christine edzard wrote a brilliant script based on Charles Dickens durrett. And she had this idea which I thought was was way out. But still[…]
[…]le and they used to put me in this team with a man called Curtis who was working in Mayfair, [Laughter] which was supposed to be the graveyard of his officers, because first of all you had to get through the butler, then the secretary and if you were lucky you got to see the person who really lived […]
[…]t he said. So we fly over to Caens where they were held up.And we got off and I was met by if you'll pardon the expression, some prat of an artillery officer. Now this was the guy if they were ever making a film in Hollywood and they wanted an English Artillery officer, he was the guy. So I said wha[…]
This material is the copyright of the ACTT History Project, Daphne Anstey widow of Edgar, editor with the National Film Board of Canada under her maiden name, Lily, interviewers JohnLegard [JL] and Gloria Sachs [GS], recorded in her home, in Hampstead Garden Suburb, 3 May 1989. Recordist Alan […]
[…]most particularly as ‘continuity girl’. Her career began at Walthamstow Studios in the 1917 and she received her first credit in 1935 for The Mystery of the Marie Celeste. She joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service during WWII and subsequently returned to the film industry, working for Rank and Ha[…]
