[…]ntually a computerised database. So, I was entirely unqualified. However, I did get an interview. I don't know quite how- I didn't get the job - but Franklin invited me, Noble Frankland, who was the director at the time wrote me a letter afterwards because everything went through the Civil Service C[…]
[…] RAF. I went into the RAF in 1943 and I came out in 1945 and he said “I think I’ve got a contract for you.” And I got a contract with The Rank Organisation which wasn’t a fortune but it kept me quite well and I was able to help my Mother and various things like that so I was glad to have[…]
[…], Ron Parnell came to me one day and he said, "How would you like a sabbatical?" So I said, "Where?" So he said, "I want you to go to a theatre which Rank has just taken over. It's at Marble Arch. It's called the Regal, Marble Arch." I said, "Oh." He said, "It's closed, but Rank are thinking of reop[…]
[…]ow, I couldn't then judge as one now can that the whole person can be made up of so many conflicting parts if you like. It bothered you that he drank? Yes, it did. But well it did because coming from a family that hardly did and thinking of him you know oh I would like to marry him more th[…]
[…]at that time.Ah.23Vivienne Collins Tape 1 Side AAnd fear started to be in the air because John Davies, he must have, I don’t knowwhen he took over at Rank but there were by then stories about his cost-cutting were beginning.So therefore you felt you were under the axe or possibly?Well I don’t know, […]
[…]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 […]
[…]Askew: No.Jim Shields: They were a separate entity...Maurice Askew: The Religious Film Society was formed to make Christian pictures, and that's when Rank got interested in the film business.Jim Shields: Yes.Maurice Askew: And they had a studio in Crystal Palace, just opposite the burnt down remains[…]
