[…]e important thing, and through them, through that company, I met a girl who was a singer called Jean English, who was married to a guy who worked for Rank under Theo Cowan... their publicity department provided escorts for these young Rank starlets they had to go to premieres and people like... who […]
[…]rth having all that much you know, but even so it was fun, that's the main thing, it was fun.Jim Shields: Yes, yes.Peter Stroud: And of course, being Ranks, you weren't allowed to work on Sundays until you were sixteen. [Chuckles]Jim Shields: This was the religious side of the Rank Organisation of c[…]
[…];of Pinewood rut and it was absolutely ready for somebody to just prick the balloon of ABC and Rank. And these films were really the forerunners of the social films that followed, in fact made by[…]
[…]say one thing, I was absolutely lost, because I was surrounded by brilliant academic minds, they were all 'double firsts' from Oxbridge you see. And frankly, I could have been in Tibet, I didn't know what the heck they were talking about.John Legard: Who are the names that you're talking about now? […]
[…]erspectives with measures marked on them. He was a nice fellow.SC: Presumably he learned something from all that?EC: Oh, yes and of course there was Frank the Electrician. He was marvellous. I don’t know his other name. I must say he gave me more laughs than anybody I had ever met in the film indust[…]
[…]ht to have a career, oughtn’t I?’ And he said, ‘Well...’ So I applied and I got a board, which I’d never had before, and I arrived with these serried ranks of people – BBC board, you see – and in the middle was the chairperson, somebody from personnel, who happened to be the Chief Wren in Naples, wh[…]
[…]er Forde was also making Rome Express. And the only people at all that we could go to, there was a man called Clayton Hutton who was a producer, and Frank Cadman, and they were making custard pie comedies with Naughton and Gold, and a man called Jack somebody who was the stand-in for - Jack Williams[…]
