[…]w which is around five feet 11 I I had a 16 year old face, but a masculine body right. And I could get small parts I went into Penge, Coventry and various places earning very little money. And sometimes they stuck a grey wig on my head and put a moustache on where I play an older person. […]
[…]h! We knew nothing whatever about it, but I knew they wrote a lot about love, and I thought I might learn something in this way. And I enjoyed the poetry. And then suddenly this schoolmistress said: I think you've had enough of that. And she put into my hand Bernard Shaw's 'Intelligent Women's Guide[…]
[…]of birth 4 July ...Vernon Sewell: 1903.Roy Fowler: Nineteen hundred and three right, OK. We're going to concentrate mostly on the film industry, but it would be interesting to know family background to some extent, where and when you entered this life, your parentage and such like - educat[…]
[…] can happen between two people in the middle of a World War. We entered a town called Walkenswaard, anyway it was on the way to Arnheim where we were trying to get to and we were the people who never got there. And we came to this town and the Germans had scarpered out, having set fire to two cigar […]
[…]it paid the domain airfields here on the cheap you know, would have been 50% more costly in AmericaJim Shields 19:15 money out of the country anyways,John Hargreaves 19:17 so they can spend it. And this of course helped out because he took care of a few 1000 technicians he wo[…]
[…] unshowable, obviously silent films ..John Legard: Special type of editor it sounds like.Teddy Darvas: That's right, unshowable, you had to try and make it showable and if it was showable you got paid. And one of Zoli's stories, and his language was very fruity, one of his stories was that[…]
[…] of the Weatherby family of the racing people in Yorkshire. He was a member of that family. He was a lieutenant colonel in the auction box light infantry in the first world war. Now I also. Just one little incident I remember about another one and I went back some years ago and I saw an old chap dig[…]
[…]ing's African Rifles and if you asked me what I was doing I had I was just having a wonderful time. Didn't you see much action. Not see any action to try to he never rifle. They had heard about the 25000 feet I think so yes I think so yes. I learnt to speak Swahili and was a great advantage to it. I[…]
