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[…] of the Plaza in Lower Regent St. He was a Paramount man origi- nally. Then he worked for Odeon Cinemas. […]

[…] be faced with a man who couldn't care less about that.Roy Fowler: And yet at Warners they had Anton Grot who was a superb art director andWallace at Paramount, a different kind of art department at Paramount but never the less,a very talented one.Maurice Carter: Maybe he was a very tough art direct[…]

[…]ree. And of course, America were very quick to catch on to this problem. And so that was why every American company formed a British company that was paramount, who worked at Pinewood was 20th Century Fox, who owned Wembley and MGM Of course, by now had the, we're building very shortly afterwards, t[…]

[…] CB: Oh yes! I did a couple of those at Paramount, a couple of quota quickies. They sometimes turned out […]

[…]pictures in the thirties, or the beginning of the thirties I: That’s right, yeah, because of the ‘quota act’?CB: Oh yes! I did a couple of those at Paramount, a couple of quota quickies. They sometimes turned out better than a picture that had taken a long time to makeI: IndeedCB: Because they wer[…]

[…] job but drop dead darling was as I say was way I thought way ahead of its time as a comedy and it didn't make it was unfortunate. Both Some work for paramount. And just at that moment, Paramount was taken over by Gulf was I forget the name of the guy that took it over. And they literally swept ever[…]

[…] And then they sold it for, shall we say, you know, for $2,000 after they spent so so much on writing scripts and so forth. And then it was bought by Paramount, who then spent another $20,000 on it. And by now it was then sold, you say, $500,000 to somebody else. By the time he got back to Fox, they[…]

[…] cheated by people I thought of my friend Michael Powell, you see, because originally they wanted to have an American director, when I managed to get Paramount interested, when I mentioned Michael Powell de monteneux. So I said, the American director may not, from a Russian point of view, be accepta[…]

[…]d then stay. And as soon as I was working there, I realised, unlike England, there were union and non-union movies. So I couldn’t get into the union. Paramount had been trying for some time to get me in the union there, and couldn’t. But then I discovered there were quite well paid, quite interestin[…]

[…]ad, he couldn't supervise them. So we all found ourselves out of work one Monday morning. Cecil DeMille took them over for a while, he had a row with Paramount at that time, I forget what about. And he took them over and moved them in here. And I remember him giving me a very benign smile one day as[…]