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[…]ood. So he must have been pretty brainy. His other brother Laurie Wylie he was a writer and used to collaborate with my father sometimes I suppose on screen plays, with his brother Julian on er the libretto and the script for shows but I don’t think he was ever a great success. The only show that I […]
[…]e production manager who went down with a nervous breakdown and we were left with the accountant. I did make one of my only appearances on the screen there as the driver of the Funicular Railway. And I always remember Monty Banks and Lachman sharing a luge coming down the run there outs[…]
[…] me , as well as what was happening on the screen, was the dancing beam of light as I called […]
[…] was that you had to get that film on the screen by the next day, otherwise it's dead. So he […]
[…] politics in that we wanted to bring politics onto the screen, remember that up to then the BBC had not […]
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[…]I could remember the excitement of going through the plush curtains into this dark and rather warm, sweaty sort of auditorium and the film was on the screen. And lo and behold, I saw it moved. I didn't know how or what. But I was hooked from that moment onwards. I, when I got a little older, when I […]
[…]to write, just to write it for him. And you were faced with absolutely impossible conditions! But anyway, there was one script I wrote on which I had screen credit called Money Talks which was - I had co-screen credit with a writer, Jessie Burns. And the only thing I can remember about it, Archie Ma[…]
[…]o and a half minutes, she doesn’t know anything, she’s telling me it’s alright. But I had the wit not to look at her, I just kept looking at the screen, looking down at my script and started writing something, it wasDaphne Shadwell DRAFT Page 41rubbish, noughts and crosses on a bit of pape[…]
