BECTU History Project Interview with Diana Morgan - actress, playwright, screenwriter28 September 1992Interview number 265 Interviewers: Sid Cole, Alan Lawson Recorded at Denville Hall SIDE 1 (Preamble)SC: Diana, it’s lovely to be interviewing you. As I was saying let’s sta[…]
[…]le have. And you can always recognise it I mean the girls and the boys that succeed. You can be a wonderful actor but you just don’t come over on the screen. Do you agree?I agree completely yes. It is something that is inexplicable or conversely there are people who are awful actors who still seem m[…]
[…]aconsfield we often did forty set-ups a day. I should go back to Beaconsfield for a bit. They did some very successful [films], almost variety on the screen. They had something like the black and white show [Black & White Minstrels Show? DS], they had a number of black artists, like Paul Robeson[…]
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[…]nce. I don't know why I was telling that story . Alan Lawson: You were talking really about Terminus John Schlesinger: As a result of these screenings for Shell and British Transport, Edgar Anstey said what would you, we'd like you to make a film for us. I'd always been fascina ted by Brig[…]
[…]available. I was quite glad really, I don't know why. I remember we met Nic Roeg who had a sort of reputation of an up and coming chap and I think we screened Every Day Except Christmas for him and afterwards Nic Roeg said "Pity it wasn’t in colour. " and that was the end of that.I didn’t know who t[…]
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