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[…] and some flats. See, but during that time, I was on relief base back at Surbiton, which was handy. And I looked after a couple of bingo halls, a top rank suite. I was at the new Victoria for a while on the black and white minstrel show for that summer. And then as as technical chief as no as just b[…]
[…] said to me once after about the second week, he said, “Have you ever thought of being a producer?” and I thought he was taking the piss quite frankly… and I thought, no, you’ve got to be joking, you know. And he said “No!” he said, “How would you like an attachment to Light Entert[…]
[…]y can't help push you through it really, really. Show business is really tough in that sort of way. If you haven't got the ability, you don't get on frankly. It also, I think it's pretty encouraging that as long as you can keep your marbles, you can be a star at eighty, you know. Darrol Blake&n[…]
[…] truly knackered, and I’d fallen well behind the rest of the platoon. The platoons were made up of captains, sergeant Majors, all sorts of things. No rank, you just were plugged in and made into platoons. And I was crossing this river, or struggling, across this river (laughing) and suddenly the who[…]
[…]olved in the studio. I can't remember the I mean copies the films that exist anyway. But it had very great difficulty in getting distribution through ranks. I think they didn't want to distribute in wartime but it was. So then. I mean, I think, you know, as far as Merton Park goes, it had its own ca[…]
[…]e part I wanted to. I wanted to play the part of the tomboy because that’s what I was, but they didn’t let me play that. I played another sister who drank too much and wore a rather slinky velvet dress and I thought, ‘Oh, goodness!’ But you see, there again, it’s so good to play things you don’t fee[…]
[…] discovered you don’t get a lot of parts with an accent.SF: No, of course, not.So he’d gone and taken elocution lessons.SF: Yes.And risen through the ranks-ish in the BBC.SF: Yes.Started as a floor manager.SF: Yes.And worked in the BBC. So when I met him he’d just made a little film, I think I was a[…]
