Joy Cuff (née Seddon)

[…]g purposes] 0:05:33.2 JOY: Because at my final year of art school I just knew what I wanted to do, I went to St. Martin's for evening classes on set design and actually it's Steven Bundy, I just remember his name, he worked for the BBC. Do you remember him? No..? [laughing] He was a set designe[…]

Philip Donnellan

[…]as may have moved down in order to join a harvesting gang of some sort.  And the 1871 census finds him in in Whittington, Staffordshire where he settled, married a local woman, had six children of whom the youngest was my father, another Thomas, and Thomas in turn married a woman from North Dev[…]

Daphne Shadwell

[…]t out during the day.JPH: It was an hour of light music, basically, yes, from twelve to one, yes. DS: Yes, something like that.Okay. So where did you settle in London when you...DS: When we first came back â€“ oh, in London â€“ we were in Wembley Park, Grendon Gardens, I remembe[…]

Anthony Mendleson

[…]er Intimate Theatre, or Manchester Library Theatre it's called now, I think, and put on the first shows there. And I designed 'The Seagull', with the sets and the costumes. And we were so hard-up in those days that the costumes were made by lining materials from - because one of the backers had an i[…]

Peggy Gick

[…] was perfectly true, because the whole thing on a film set is your detail has got to be at eye-line. […]

Val Guest

[…]dyguard, but he was another character there. Joe Grossman, the studio manager, he was a most incredible character this Cockney. I was actually on the set the day the King of Greece was being shown around by Joe and he was in his full fireman's uniform and I was on the set when he said, the first tim[…]

Judy Ritchie

[…]V because they came to record the exhibition and the Sound guy, whilst fumbling with my blouse, putting on the mic, said to me, "This is quite like a set! You know, they are looking for set designers!" Now, I had never, ever, I mean, what is a set designer?! I didn't know! So I said, "Oh yeah? Very […]

Peggy Gick

[…]thing, which is...Peggy Gick: I remember Edward saying, "now the first thing you've got to do is forget all you know about architecture, because film sets are designed differently." Which was perfectly true, because the whole thing on a film set is your detail has got to be at eye-line. Now normally[…]
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