[…]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[…]
[…] had been a civil service in the post office, but she had a cousin who had a connection and that's how I got in. She was the secretary to the Head of Paramount all over Europe. You know that big building in Wardour Street well she worked there. It was a kind of PA job but they just called it secreta[…]
[…] you better find yourself a job’. So I went to an employment agency and said I only wanted film work, and they said ‘Fine’, andthey found me a job at Paramount in Wardour Street. And David Rose was there at that time, and so was another lovely continuity, who had been a continuity girl, Diana McNab,[…]
[…]e circumstances. But I always tried to match the crew to the production rather than anything else. I think this was the most important thing that was paramount in my mind, or my Film Operation Manager's mind, was to get the right people for the right assignment, if you could. And that I mean is para[…]
[…] in turn todo the royal rota. And when BBC - I went to BBC television - they had a newsreel royal rotacomprising of all the five newsreel companies - Paramount, Gaumont, Universal, Pathé - four -and BBC and ITN had a rota, they had their own rota, because we were dealing in 60mm andthey were dealing[…]
[…]uld like to take you to lunch. And there was a lovely…it’s gone now sadly, but there old, very traditional thing outside, just outside those gates at Paramount called [Oblatz?] and so I go into [Oblatz?] to have lunch with Bob Gottschalk and as he was paying for it I let him finish his soup and then[…]
