[…], you went to, to see, for an interview with a distributor?Yes, a very, very well known, powerful distributor, and...Y ou...And he...You think it was Paramount?I think it was probably Paramount, yes.Y es.If I think of the name I’ll throw it back. And, just to be his, his secretary there. Ithought of[…]
[…]ady done the. Film of the relief of pure bogon those sort of things. And so we're left and started working for Jim Muller who was the chief editor of Paramount news until he opened his own business.[00:11:15.040] - SPEAKER: F1 Has stayed with him for a while and then persuaded features to persu[…]
[…]pstead, the producer, and to Robert Stevenson, the director, and said, "I've found 'Baby' for us!" So they brought him in, tested him, and he got it. Paramount saw him in it and put him under contract immediately, and that was the beginning of Alan Ladd! Amazing, hmm?Arnold Schwartzman : He's extrem[…]
[…]ith Alex. And he told me lots of anecdotes about Alex.John Legard: When he first arrived?Teddy Darvas: The first film that was made was for Paramount but I have forgotten what it was called "Not While Parents Sleep" something like that. But "The Private Life of Hen dry VIII" and they had a[…]
[…]es that I wrote for him, the film called Steppin' Out turned out to be much more successful than their usual low budget pictures and I got a job with Paramount as a writer, and um - then with Metro. And that was a hell of a job because I was assigned as a junior writer to Carey Wilson who was a very[…]
