[…]er made by Sam Spiegel, he had no experience as a producer, so when it was made here, Sam Spiegel went to, he said if they take me and the two stars, Oscar Homolka and Peter Lorre, he took the two stars to Hollywood and left me here. That is how it happened.And another person of my acquaintance had […]
BEHP 0167T Johnny Speight Transcript JOHNNY SPEIGHT Scriptwriter Interviewed by Norman Swallow with Alan Lawson, recorded on 26 November 1990. The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project SIDE 1, TAPE 1 Alan Lawson: First of all when and where were you born Johnny Speight: C[…]
Margaret Thomson Side 1Gloria Sachs  0:00  It's August the 23rd 1989. This is a recording of Margaret Thomson. Side one, tape one. Margaret, will you please like to tell me something about your, where you are, who you are, where you come from, your childhood days, anything about your early[…]
[…]vely minor. And then it opened and then it opened to tremendous success but tremendous. So they're my money worries were over. The script received an Oscar received an Oscar. Compton Bennett went to Hollywood. But not before they're directed another film For Years between based on a play I think by […]
[…]  13:28  I did a few shots in a picture. I describe him as a good camera man. He lit a picture in Hollywood before he came here that won an Oscar, I think for photography, he was somewhere on the nervy, really type as I remember him. You know, after he licked something, he wasn't sure if h[…]
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[…]that was MGM’s first major production in this country wasn’t it?HARRY MILLER: Robert Donat.  Yes that got, I think that got in the line for the Oscars and things but in those days dubbing editors never got Oscars, they all went to the sound department, you see?  And I think they ga[…]
[…]e been able to. I don't know with my cameramen. I mean, old Dick used to have a bottle of Pepe, Tio Pepe. And then another cameraman, chap who won an Oscar for a picture that was on last week Man for All Seasons, he wasn't bad, he was - I suppose he was nearly first class, he was adequate.Fowle[…]
[…]s introduced to Michael winner. And as I say, I've got Christmas cards from him here from years gone by. Great guy, great director should have won an Oscar for death wish. I John Luton  38:45  couldn't agree more. Ernie, and I think really, it's a tragedy that his I don't kn[…]
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