Harry Miller

[…] his stuff packed and he didn’t come back again. [LAUGHTER]  And I won money on the race.  But the trouble was the manager of the theatre, Frank Boare, quite a character in the theatre world in those days, he heard about it and he said, “Now then, you either stop this or get out”.   S[…]

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[…] talk about the extended schedules in those days in the Rank Organisation. E.M. Smedley-Aston: Oh yes. I mean screen time, two […]

denis-forman

[…] Majors and the Argylls had too many Majors. Taylor/Peet: What rank were you then? Denis Forman: Major. I had been […]

Dudley Lovell

[…]ract, it was abstract on that my uncle died and left me a lot of photographic equipment. Also at Stratton school I came in contact with a man called Frank basil. Now that was the Frank Brown, the Frank bevel on the lawn remember, I think of ICT he was the newsreel cameraman, and this was his son. An[…]

adrian-andy-worker

[…] at that point, the com pany was part of the Rank Organisation already? Andy Worker: Yeah, hmm. Roy Fowler: Ah hmm, […]

E M (Michael) Smedley Aston

[…] Night Out and it had Renee Houston and Claude Hulbert. And the vamp, they had things called vamps in those days, was none other than the future Mrs Frankovich, in other words Binnie Barnes. And [laughs] the director was a very nice character but not exactly a dynamic director, called Harry Hughes. […]

Wendy Toye

[…]e other ballets I did at the Palladium and things like that, they were all a bit of a gimmick because I was so young. But this was a serious work by Frank Bridge that Ninette asked me to do. And it really was a great honour. I don't think I came up to her, I think I probably did with that ballet, bu[…]

Jack Rockett

[…] famous pictures that were shown during your time with the Rank Organisation? You mentioned Genevieve earlier. We were talking about some […]
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