[…] Farewell to Arms was a monumental problem with a difficult producer David Selznick is a leading lady in the film […]
[…]with your team, and other teams within the BBC. Did you have much liaison with personnel outside the corporation? So, directors or distributors, film producers who were…TE: Certainly people at my sort of level didn’t really have much contact with people outside because originally, in my early days a[…]
[…] as a full-time official with BECTU. Roughly when did you clock on to this History Project?Well, I, I mean I, I was, well, I was the official for the Producer Directors, I was their official, and I knew Roy well, you know what I mean. We’ve known each other and he sent a memo to me the other day and[…]
[…]d with Bert was with erm, Run a Crooked Mile for Universal Columbia Pictures or Universal Pictures. I should be on there, and the executive producer from America wrote an article for one of the trade magazines saying the British technicians had no verve, and all he wanted to do was br[…]
[…]o the art director on the film, or whoever it was when...[???] or...Peggy Gick: Yes, I mean that was in the days when the credits would have been the producer, the director, the art director, the cameraman, possibly the editor and that was it. And I think these [rolls/rows and rows] that go on now, […]
[…]e. You had to do it no matter what you had. I learned very quickly the art of diplomacy and I was only 21. I learned very quickly that I could have a producer come in because the producers would walk into our office that started walking towards the union people walk into her office. Because that's w[…]
[…]e had a little Sound Studio, which unfortunately, wasn't totally soundproof. But middle of the night it was wasn't bad. And we filmed them with a BBC producer called Alan Sleeth. And he came and directed that we did about eight of those introductions over a period of two nights. But Subsequently, th[…]
[…] of operetta productions at the Wells, they hadn't done it before, well they'd done the Merry Widow but that was all. And they wanted a conductor and producer who had both worked both in the theatre and the West End and Wendy Toye was the choice of producer, director I think they would now call it, […]