[…]surviving. All right. And that was quite a lot of money in those days. Darrol Blake 12:15 I was meaning particularly productions or people or writers or, you know, David Croft 12:19 I was, I was in a couple of musicals in one that aborted a[…]
[…]ne was one name I must mention, must mention, and that's DH, Monroe, yes, remember? DH, yeah, you will Yes. Well, DH, really ran the shop. He was the production manager. I don't what you call him in today's world. Alan Lawson 17:07 He was supremo. Bill War[…]
[…]he transition point. You were at the top of the tree in television in your programme mix that you were putting out in the UK, in American exports and production...Lew Grade : Yeah, but it was suitable for here, like 'Edward VII' that I made...Alan Sapper : Very good.Lew Grade : When I made it I had […]
[…]y wheeled in rails with clothes on which you could have for crowd. And I used to come across clothes which I recognised from some of the lovely Korda productions. I remember coming across a dress which Diana Wynyard had worn in 'Kipps', things like that, but was now in crowd. And you felt, "Oh dear,[…]
[…]ide to go into film. It sort of happened. Actually, I started professionally in the theatre, I suppose when I was eleven. That was in Max Reinhardt's production of The Miracle at Olympia in 1911. And then I went back to the theatre when I was fourteen, and I played... Yes! Talking of films, I'm alwa[…]
[…]like, and I met them all in the course of that 17 years, carpenters, painters, scenery, all of them.RF: How about the executives and the senior production staff Balcon and such people as Sid for example.UB: Very, very nice, I got on very well with them. I used to come into contact them, they u[…]
[…]n of course there was the famous 1984, which caused the most enormous scandal because of the rats and all that, but it was a wonderful production, and the BBC repeated it regardless. I mean they’d done it on a Sunday and they did it again on the Thursday.[end of side] [46:07]Nancy Tho[…]
