[…]nd every play that Norman Marshall put on at the Gate was censored. Eventually there was a big fight with the Lord Chamberlain and all the plays like Oscar Wilde and The Children’s Hour went up to the West End, but it was a terrific battle. SC: It’s extraordinary, looking back. What did the Lor[…]
[…]on : Now again, a very English subject directed by Viertel - "Rhodes of Africa".Peter Birch : Yes, "Rhodes of Africa".Alan Lawson : Walter Huston and Oscar Homolka and Peggy Ashcroft.Peter Birch : Oh yes, I remember Peggy Ashcroft from a girl.Alan Lawson : Then after that, "Seven Sinners".Peter Birc[…]
[…]ecause Joy Newton was asked to do another ballet for television. She chose again, I think, Eric Coates music and it was The Selfish Giant which is an Oscar Wilde’s story about children. So I was in The Selfish Giant and that was successful and we did that twice. I did Clara in The Nutcracker, I did […]
[…]ons nonetheless he's had every chance in Canada to do this and I think he's done some great work. And as we mentioned last night he he I think won an Oscar for one of his productions, when he became an editor/producer in one of the studios at the National Film Board, Bonnie Klein's film Not a Love S[…]
[…]and he was a very very interesting writer. And I went to Canada to do a play and it was called, I can’t remember the title of it now but it was about Oscar Wilde, Jesus Christ and Galileo. And it was something I was very proud of doing. It was written by Maxim Masunda who is so talented and died far[…]
Alan Lawson  0:00  the copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Pieter de Normanville, documentary film director, interviewer, is John Taylor, recorded on the 28th of February 1991. With interjections from his wife, Sarah Erulkar side one.John Taylor  1:11 &n[…]
[…]n full from from Rome and the sports shoe and it got the you know the Oscar of the annual award that year. That had never been done before. Peter Demi[…]
[…]sp;                 1: Yes. At that time Lindsay Anderson won an Oscar for his film about deaf children.Oh that’s right, yes. They all sort of seemed to get a certain succès d’estime.    &nb[…]
