Yvette Vanson

[…]ed him around. It was very simple, we had no money, I mean it was a very small budget then, but we just followed him around. But we start, we sort of scripted it for him, in other words, Tony again, Tony Wardle, wonderful interviews, he just spent a long time with Glynn. Built up trust, really liked[…]

Roy Fowler

[…]d that his plays be shot word for word, comma for comma and he worked on the screenplays. There was a woman called Marjorie Dean who was kind of script editor and she would put it into some kind of cinematographic language and in those days the scripts were broken down into shots, shot by shot […]

Esther Harris

[…] a man who, Leslie Everley, [ph 11:28] a lovely, lovely man I might tell you.Oh yes, I know the name.And I was his secretary. And he used to do these scripts, you know and he used to take me with him to do the shorthand, Letts, make notes at the studios when he was making these trailers.Oh.And he us[…]

Peggy Hyde-Chambers (nee Rignold)

[…]t to see her and I said ‘The only thing is I can’t just be a receptionist I’d go mad’. So she said ‘Well, there’s other things you can do and there’s script reviewing and you could help John and do things for John’, so he’s the producer and director there. And so I said ‘Well, if there isn’t anythin[…]

Edward Aneurin Williams

BEHP transcript DisclaimerThis transcript has been produced automatically using Otter, https://get.otter.ai/interview-transcription/.It provides a basic, but unverified or proofread transcript of the interview. Therefore, the British Entertainment History Project (BEHP) accepts no liability for[…]

Margaret Dale

[…]ctice clothes. We dressed John Neville in full evening dress, top hat and made him into a sort of Diaghilev figure. Ian Dallas wrote me a nice little script which was evocative rather than presentational. It gave a sense of what was to come rather than ‘now it is a dance about twins’. He gave a litt[…]

Bill Girdlestone

BECTU History Project - Interview No. 3[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: (Digital: 2012-10-02) Interview Date: 1987-04-22Interviewer: Roy Fowler & Alan Lawson Interviewee: Bill GirdlestoneTape 1, Side 1Roy Fowler & Alan Lawson: Now, Bill, where were you born, and when?Bill Girdleston[…]
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