[…]saw, to get a plane, we had a visa to Britain, which was procured through some business friends of my father to come to England. We arrived in Warsaw two or three days before the war broke out and had a seat on the plane on the Wednesday. My mother had left on Wednesday morning, we couldn't get seat[…]
[…] the local film studios tomorrow" - which was Lime Grove, Shepherd's Bush - "and see what chances there are for a young man? When you leave school in two or three year's time maybe there's something you can do in films, who knows?" So the following day, at fourteen years old, I went strolling down t[…]
[…]oedean in Brighton, which was a famous girl's school. But unfortunately I - well, my elder sister was there at the time and my family couldn't afford two of us at Roedean, which was very expensive. And a rich uncle paid for me, but unfortunately, when I was sixteen he died, without leaving any money[…]
[…]d next to it was Bellino Caro. Father said "That's where Max lives". We got this place and with the rate of exchange at the time, he had to sell only two or three prints to pay the rent for the whole year. That was nice wasn't it?SC: Wonderful, but you came back from there to England when?EC: 1927 I[…]
[…]d not happy ones. We, we moved about quite a lot. The reason the reason it got what I mean that I was born in Blackheath was that my sister been born two years before she was born in Cambridge, and my parents married in 19 29. And both sides of those pet sets of parents and my mother and my father t[…]
[…]y the rights and other companies would pinch it and they had newsreel theatres in London which showed nothing else and they would sometimes bring out two or three issues a day – tt was 1ike a newspaper – if something big was on. I went to see him when I left school and he said bring up that film you[…]
[…] Rank Organisation, and Del Giudice, who was the head of Two Cities, and he was an Italian who wanted to give […]
[…] was there at the time and my family couldn't afford two of us at Roedean, which was very expensive. And […]
[…]e 3:58 the fastest you could Nick Gilbey 4:02 and so then you, you mentioned Peter Cadbury. What? Westwood television? Elizabeth Bale 4:08 My father said, Oh, don't go and work for Peter Cadbury. Applied to the BBC. So being[…]
[…] very different from my husband’s, I mean it’s quite interesting because he’s just a few years older than me and because his grandparents owned these two cinemas he’s got an enormous childhood movieinterest and he used to go, he used to go to the cinema quite a lot and used to... In fact when t[…]
